Long Beach, California going wireless
Posted Aug 6th 2006 7:52AM by Michael Sciannamea
Filed under: WiFi, MAN - muni, Hacks, Government, Business
According to Long Beach, California city officials, there are five companies that have submitted proposals, including VeriLAN, in order to win the bid to develop and deploy a wireless network to cover the entire city. The plan is to choose a vendor within the next few months and launch the network sometime next year.
The city expects the vendor to foot the entire bill to build the network and charge monthly access fees to pay for it. As with most networks of this type, the hope is that the network will encourage more businesses to come to the city.
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