"The broader WiFi system is an expansion of that network, using equipment from Silicon Valley-based Tropos Networks Inc. The system uses shoebox-sized devices mounted on streetlight posts to provide the wireless coverage. Some of the devices also beam the signal to existing fiber-optic trunk lines that connect the city to the Internet backbone. About 20 to 25 units are necessary to cover one square mile."What this is all about is a system just put into place in post-Katrina New Orleans to provide free wireless connectivity to all. It's Mayor Nagin's idea of a way to boost interest in the city, business-wise and otherwise. Dubai, the city of innovation, would do well to take an idea like this and run with it!
30 November, 2005
Could Dubai Learn a Lesson from New Orleans?
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no - Etisalat's too busy doing things like this: Buying VOIP-blocking Systems
Free wireless internet for the city?
In your dreams! :-)
Free wireless? You must be joking. Think of the big loss of revenue for Etisalat! Where are they going to get the millions they pay for the proxy?
Etisalat already has almost dubai-wide internet coverage.
a "low" 5 dhs an hour for pre-existing etisalat subs. or 15 dhs if you dont have an internet account already.
what. a. joke.
husain: etisalat can cover the fee they pay to securecomputing using probably less than 1% of it's yearly profits, in fact i wouldn't be surprised if the govt pays it for etisalat.
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