News Update: 20 June 2006

City-wide Wi-Fi gains currency
Despite the controversy, municipal Wi-Fi appears to be an unstoppable force. While the short-term impact will be minimal, operators are starting to wake up to the longer-term threats - VoIP calls over Wi-Fi cutting into their roaming business and users switching off fixed-line DSL

Advice for Cities Considering Wireless
If they don’t talk to other municipalities, they should at least listen to this analyst, who talked to the people in the trenches for advice on what to do long before you deploy your first Wi-Fi node.