Buckeye CableSystem and MetroFi, Inc submit bids for Wi Toledo…
I don’t think anyone is surprised by the news that Buckeye was one of those who bid for the Wi Toledo project. I was kind of surprised that Earthlink did not submit a bid considering their earlier mention when the project was first discussed. Who is MetroFi? Let’s find out…
It appears they provide wireless service for 13 Cities according to their website and free too…The latest release from their website on Portland states in part:
By May 2007, more than 55,000 Portland residents and 10,000 businesses will be able to enjoy free wireless Internet via MetroFi’s Wi-Fi network in their local neighborhoods. Once all phases are completed by mid-2008, MetroFi’s WiFi network will cover about 95 percent of the city’s 134 square miles.
Within the first month of MetroFi’s Portland launch in December 2006 and with just five percent of the City covered to-date, more than 3,000 registered users have enjoyed its free wireless broadband service spending 17,000 hours online. “We are thrilled to see the excitement and active use of MetroFi’s Wi-Fi service, said Logan Kleier, the City’s project manager in the bureau of technology services. “This next phase will allow even more residents and visitors to benefit from free Internet access and keeps the City’s Unwire Portland initiative moving forward.”
Read more about Unwire Portland here.
Lisa,
I’ve been able to find out nothing further on this other than what was available in the Media and MetroFi’s web site is fairly unsubstantial from a technical aspect, instead stressing sunny skies, and fields of honey and clover…
Surely, MetroFi would have to partner with a fiber provider or resort to prohibitively expensive leased data circuits.
Either way, it looks to me like Buckeye gets at least a piece of the action.
AT&T could supply them the fiber, but they would more likely resort to equally expensive digital circuits over copper, they just don’t have enough fiber in the right places, unlike Buckeye. . .
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