The last lingering city in the once-ambitious EarthLink municipal efforts shuts down: Forgot about Anaheim, Calif.’s EarthLink Wi-Fi network? Me, too. It was once the showcase, with a several sq mi buildout, the largest in the EarthLink system, and a place where VoIP over Wi-Fi was in heavy testing. The network’s equipment will be pulled from poles no later than Sept. 30, the Orange County Register reports.

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Are you constantly disappointed by your Internet service provider? Do you suffer from incredibly slow download speeds and have absolutely no confidence in your Internet connection? If you have answered affirmative to any of these two questions, then perhaps you might be interested to hear about HughesNet satellite internet.

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Over 75% of all Americans are faithful Internet users. These impressive statistics are generated by improved technologies and fast-speed Internet connections. We are talking about the latest of the latest, meaning satellite Internet. And if we are going to mention a company that deserves every inch of your attention, we would have to say that HughesNet is perfect for your Internet needs.

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Participate in a research survey on the role of wireless to shrink the digital divide: Gwen Shaffer, a Temple University (Phila.) doctoral student, is looking for responses from many kinds of stakeholders in building networks that have a purpose, at least in part, to extend Wi-Fi access. She notes that this could include community networks, non-profits, and for-profit firms like Fon. Personal information will not be collected, and she’s looking to conduct in-depth interviews with some participants.

New York City considers plan to bring fiber to public housing residents: Wireless networks are definitely out in the recommendations of a private consultant to the city’s Broadband Advisory Committee, ComputerWorld reports. They may opt to use $4m in a fund from Verizon and a potential $8m from the two incumbent cable operators.

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Long Island proposal still mired: The plan to put Wi-Fi up across two Long Island counties has seemed doomed to me from the start. The company that won the bid was untested, and its other in-deployment or in-proposal networks are off the table. Expertise aside, it needs tens of millions to build such a network, and financing for company-funded metro-scale projects is not available. The counties involved have pledged no purchases of services. And, perhaps the final stroke, the local utility says that E-Path doesn’t meet the test of being a telecom and paying less than $10 per year for pole placement, but instead must pay the all-comer rate of $50 per year.

This is a critical distinction. Telecoms are covered under the Telecom Act of 1996 that requires non-discriminatory access to utility poles to avoid incumbent local exchange carriers (ILECs) and utilities from being gatekeepers that prevent competitive service from emerging. There are a series of tests in the law and local qualifications, too, that allow a firm to be a registered telecom. An FCC decision last year ruled that companies that mix telecom and unregulated information services on the same wires aren’t disqualified from getting the Telecom Act deal, however.

But E-Path seems to meet none of the criteria except their desire to pay $10 instead of $50 per year per pole. Utility poles have held up many other municipal networks. We’re not hearing more about them these days because such networks are now being built on a smaller scale for different purposes, where the number of nodes and their placement is rather different than networks built with the intent of providing indoor coverage.

Cablevision, by the way, qualifies as a telecom, this article states, which helps them in placing nodes for their planned $300m network across their coverage territory. They can also mount nodes in-line with their cable lines, using power from their cable plant on the lines already.

E-Path appears to have a variety of communication problems as well. The article notes, “Tortoretti said his Washington, D.C., attorneys disagree with LIPA’s interpretation. But the attorney Tortoretti said represents E-Path, Charles Rohe, said he couldn’t speak about the company or the dispute.”

Later, E-Path’s “chief executive said he hopes the county will help with his LIPA dispute.” But an aide to the Suffolk County executive said, “That’s not really our issue. That’s out of our control.”

Correspondent Craig Plunkett, quoted near the end, points out that if the counties were to change their minds and want to buy services on the network, the proposal would have to be rebid (appears as the sound-alike “rebuild” by accident in the online article at this moment).

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abhitux- Broadcast your self LIVEI am planning to experiment on a new format to air live shows to the audience. Given the constraints on the time, I hope to record something on the web and then you could watch it at your leisure. Updates can be had from Twitter or Jaiku. I use Pingfm to […]

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BT is keen to increase the amount they charge broadband providers to access its telecom services and Ofcom (the communications watchdog) is considering granting BT permission to do so. If this transpires, cheap broadband deals may well become a thing of the past. However, there is no need to be too concerned just yet, as we explain.

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WildBlue satellite broadband service offers high speed internet access via satellite to homes and small businesses in remote and rural areas of the continental United States. This broadband connection is always on, so you do not require a phone or cable line; neither do you require any software to be installed on your PC.

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A review of the highly anticipated and much talked about iPhone from Apple. It’s many features, and a few drawbacks. Cheers and Jeers and everything in-between

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As if having websites opening quickly, and downloading files at a high speed wasn’t enough, there is another reason to get a good broadband connection; games.

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