Just got word of this today, and it sounds as if it's a done deal, because Clearwire is the "sole supplier" capable of delivering the service.
>From the sole source purchase justification document: "City bureaus need mobile high speed wireless Internet access in order to accomplish a variety of tasks including mobile field work relating to building inspections, law enforcement activities, and fire and rescue activities. The City currently has one vendor providing such services, however the City requires additional services that will allow City personnel to conduct certain work functions, including but not limited to, video conferences and other high quality video streaming. High quality video requires significant capacity (e.g., an MPEG2 video stream can require up to 3.75 Megabits per second of downstream capacity), therefore the City, having examined the alternatives wishes to utilize a high speed wireless Internet access with 4 Megabytes per second of a downstream connection and 384 Kilobytes per second of an upstream connection utilizing a wireless technology called WiMAX that is faster than any other cellular technology." Read the entire thing here: http://personaltelco.net/~luckymike/cityclearwirepurchase.pdf Had anyone heard about this? It sounds like they're using Clearwire for what MetroFi was supposed to accomplish but never did. -- Michael Weinberg President Personal Telco Project, Inc. A 501(c)(3) Non-Profit --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ The Personal Telco Project - http://www.personaltelco.net/ Donate to PTP: http://www.personaltelco.net/donate Archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.wireless.portland.general/ Etiquette: http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/MailingListEtiquette List information: http://lists.personaltelco.net To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
