“Neither one is true,” said Jim Freeze, senior vice president of marketing and alliances for BelAir Networks, a Canadian company providing the wireless technology to many municipalities. “It wasn’t true when everyone thought broadband wireless was going to be available free everywhere, and it’s not true now when people are saying it is dead.”
The WiMAX World show being held here is, in fact, showcasing where municipal Wi-Fi is working — in places such as Boston, Corpus Christi, Tex., and Minneapolis, as well as where municipal networks are adopting WiMAX technology, including Grand Rapids, Mich. In virtually every instance, the muni Wi-Fi or WiMAX network was established to do something other than provide free or cheap broadband access, and the municipality involved was an anchor tenant for the Wi-Fi service.
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