by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 17, 2015 | Blog
In my last post I briefly reviewed the less-than-stellar history of municipal Wi-Fi networks that were deployed roughly a decade ago. As I noted in that post, these projects employed earlier generations of technology and often-poorly-conceived “public-private...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 15, 2015 | Blog, Uncategorized
So far, this series of blog posts has focused on what private companies are doing in the unlicensed spectrum space—including startups, cable operators, Google and mobile carriers. In the next few posts I’ll consider what cities and local neighborhoods have done, are...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 10, 2015 | Blog
On April 1 the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation (ITIF) held an event to discuss its new report entitled “How Techno-Populism Is Undermining Innovation.” The thrust of the report was to contrast the dangers of what it describes as “tech...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 7, 2015 | Blog
In a post yesterday I discussed the disruptive potential of Google’s Project Nova. Having just discovered an article by Christopher Williams published last weekend in the UK’s Telegraph, I thought I should add an update on international aspects of Nova’s ambitions and...
by Mitchell Shapiro | Apr 6, 2015 | Blog
Though Google has not revealed much in the way of details, the Internet search giant is expected to launch a WiFi/MVNO wireless service sometime in the near future. Based on limited comments from company executives and reports in the Wall Street Journal (see here and...
