Clovis says yes to WiFi, Fresno kinda nods
Submitted by jarah on Mon, 11/27/2006 - 16:57.
They City of Clovis issued a Request for Proposals to WiFi the entire city. Not just Old Town or Downtown, but all of Clovis. Meanwhile, Fresno makes due with service on the Fulton Mall and two blocks of Kern Street. The Clovis WiFi contract will be awarded in January or February. Fresnans will have to rely on the "kindness" of strangers to get free WiFi outside of Downtown.
New developments
Clovis now wants to piggy back on Fresno's RFP for citywide Wifi:
http://www.lateupdate.com/tech/hey-world-got-an-idea-to-make-citywide-wi...
Check LateUpdate.com for more updates on this including an interview on today's podcast with Jon Lawrence of Fresno-based Launch WIFI.
You can try the whisher, it can work fine for me, enjoy.
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We (90.7 KFSR) had a story on this topic this weekend on our business roundtable program THE PULSE. http://www.csufresno.edu/kfsr/pulse.html
According to The Business Journal (our partner for the program's newscast), it's not necessarily going to be a FREE wifi network, in fact the RFP doesn't specify anything about revenue models. However, the city says their goals would be best met by a free service.
Also they say the plan is to have Old Town
wiredwireless by summer 2007, and roll out city-wide service after that.wiifi
WOW! everybody in Clovis will get a Wii ??!
dang, how come they get all the good stuff.
hm, what.. oh, wifi..... nevermind.
who'd want free net access anyway.?
couldn't do a thing for Fresno business or image...
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