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Comment on IS4CWN '08 Opening Plenary Speakers Announced by Devin Croftoon from caselvuud

Devin Croftoon from caselvuud — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 08:31:25 +0000

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Comment on FiOS Coming to New York City by JDoe

JDoe — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 12:49:08 +0000

This is awesome. You have no idea how long I’ve been waiting for this. I actually get very poor customer service from TWC and think that competition is sorely needed.

And I’ve been hearing that Bloomberg was not approving Fios. So this is very welcome news!

Comment on Café Owners Get It Wrong about Wi-Fi and Turn Away Good Customers by Craig Plunkett

Craig Plunkett — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 04:40:49 +0000

I’ve posted a follow up to your entry on my blog:
http://www.cedx.com/2007/08/strategies-to-d.html
There needs to be balance between offering amenities and table campers, a kind of gently enforced civility and common sense.

Comment on Earthlink Responds to my post about their Municipal Wireless strategy by B Thomas

B Thomas — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 17:47:08 +0000

I can’t believe the pettiness and the dirtiness in the muni wireless world!

I was going to attend the MuniWireless conference in Dallas next week, but now I am not – because I wanted to explore possibilities for an app I am creating for muni wifi and to hear the full story about New Orleans. Particularly how Greg Meffert pushed out the first true muni wifi in the aftermath of Katrina.

However, some friends I have in Earthlink told me they have some sort of problem with Greg Meffert even though he brought them into New Orleans. So they used their sponsor role to force him off the agenda. I think that is terrible – Meffert really made the city better – not just the wifi but the city website too.

What I also heard happened was that Earthlink tried to give him money him to fix a commission vote in the French Quarter, and he told them he wouldn’t do it. They are dirty.

I know he has been in the news lately, but as a citizen of New Orleans I am sorry he left his post in the Mayor’s office – he was the only person with any sort of vision. I wanted to support him in Dallas, but now I won’t be coming.

Seems I guess that even the new telcoms are just like the old ones, just bullies that want only their way and truth known, and attack anyone who dissents. I don’t need to go all the way there to hear an Earthlink commercial instead of a real story.

Comment on Brooklyn Bridge Park Hotspot Sign by adi

adi — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:33:50 +0000

Greetings to wi-fi freaks…

Comment on Westchester County Law Requiring Secured Wi-Fi Networks (again) by Andres

Andres — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 19:01:38 +0000

I work for a retail establishment in Westchester and at least 3 times since July a county inspector has come around sayting that he’s going to issue a citation unless we put some kind of encryption on our Wi-Fi network.
He says he’s going after Starbucks too.

Comment on NYC Parks Department Releases Second Wi-Fi RFP by Jim

Jim — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:33:33 +0000

The problem with the muni plan to ask a company to come into the city spend lots of money and get nothing in return. The internet is a public access arena and should be looked at in a different way. If the city were to poll the constituents and find that a majority of the people wanted it, then it should be provided and payed for out of the taxpayers money. If we begin building the networks this way we might actually see some headway on the wireless growth. Right now we see big buisness looking for a return of some form and not getting it. Advertising cant pay for it all. No one wants to pay for something they can only use in one place. Only through the cooperation of the tax payers and the government athorities is ther ever goig to be a chance for wifi.

Comment on Where's My New York City Wi-Fi? by Aric Boyles

Aric Boyles — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:48:00 +0000

I have also spoken to and emailed with Marshall Brown, actually many times over the past several years about the wi-fi project, and it has always been “coming soon”. He’s also been quite secretive about the whole project which doesn’t make any sense to me. I have offered many times to post the status of the project on my site (centralpark.com) and/or help in any way, but nothing has come of any of those offers.

FYI I did test the access point at the Dana Discovery Center last week. I picked up “parkwifi” however the signal was extremely weak, only two bars at most which was odd considering I was standing in and around the Discovery Center the entire time. I never could determine exactly where the access point was (which was another question I directed to Marshall with no response).

Another thing that confuses me is that when I did connect to parkwifi, I was not directed to a jump page or any branded intro page, like what happens in Bryant Park. I wonder why? I would have expected to see “Welcome to the Central Park free wi-fi network. Click here to see what’s happening in the Park today (sponsored by Nokia .

Comment on NYCwireless OneWebDay + Live Wireless Video Chat by Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 02:00:10 +0000

Dear NYCWireless –

Bryant Park wanted to charge us more than 100K for using the space, so we’re lining up another (public) city park. We should have the final word on Tuesday 9/12 of the location for the noon celebration on 9/22. It will be a park with wireless…

We’ll be in touch. Craig Newmark and Scott Heiferman will be speaking, along with a few politicians. There will be great music and pictures/video from around the world. So glad you’re interested!

Susan

Comment on Where's My New York City Wi-Fi? by Klaus Ernst

Klaus Ernst — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 21:02:34 +0000

Dana,
like I said without the NOKIA flyer I never would have found out about this.
The WiFi Salon page is not very useful.
Check http://parkwifi.nokia.com
Klaus