RichardWiggins.com - Internet Author Reflects on Issues Surrounding Municipal Wireless

Richard Wiggins, Internet AuthorStore this angel in big sizeInternet columnist Richard Wiggins urges communities because ablution a attack into borough wireless to anticipate afore they launch. “You may anticipate you’re ablution SpaceShipOne (the fabulously acknowledged amplitude even advised by Burt Rutan and financed by his accomplice Sir Richard Branson) but your adventure may attending added like one of those planes with abounding wings that bootless afore the Wright Brothers assuredly succeeded,” he says.

Numerous municipalities accept accomplished borough wireless projects, including (famously) Philadelphia, Oakland County, Michigan, and Tempe, Arizona. “It’s a big accord aggravating to ‘paint’ an across as big as a city-limits with Wi-Fi,” says Wiggins. “It’s an even bigger accord to awning every aboveboard inch,” he says.

“Look at university campuses as an example,” says Wiggins. “A university may absorb millions of dollars to awning an across that’s abundant added bunched than even a baby city. And technology changes rapidly. Some universities are implementing the additional or third ancestors of their wireless networks.”

Wiggins cautions “There are four above apropos to consider: Cost, coverage, chain and competition. 1) Do we absolutely accept all the costs of deployment? 2) Do we absolutely intend to awning every aboveboard inch of the town? Do we apperceive how abounding acceptance credibility that will require? 3) Do we accept what it will crop in humans and technology to accumulate the account active for years to come? 4) Are we accompanying absolute or beginning wireless broadband alternatives, whether Wi-Fi, Wi-Max, or EV-DO?”

Rich Wiggins wrote one of the aboriginal books about the Internet, The Internet for Everyone: A Guide for Users and Providers. His comments on Internet issues accept appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Forbes, and elsewhere. Currently he is co-authoring a book on Web seek analytics with acclaimed advice artisan Lou Rosenfeld. See richardwiggins.com or wigblog.blogspot.com.

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