WolfMan Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll...EWS01/802160364 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Another RAINBOW RYAN blunder! now all the pedio-pervs will be online looking for free at our exspence! WAY TO GO RYAN YOU PIECE OF WORK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Already they are three months late in getting this off the ground. It was supposed to be ready in Janaury. When the idea was introduced Abdelazim said it would cost around $30,000 (thirty thousand) per year and HALF those costs would be covered by advertising and HALF by user fees. Now there are no user fees. Miraculously, there are 2000 people signed up, Abdelazim claims. In reality the entire population of the City of Binghamton is 45,000 and 2000 people DO NOT live within the proposed service area of this project. Selling advertising costs money and requires time and effort. Who will sell these advertisements? Who will administer the sales effort? Who will create the ads? Who will do the billing? Who will handle the collections? Will Ryan and Abdelazim hire more City employees and hide those costs in others budgets? How will Binghamton make this tiny system profitable when most other cities are losing buckets of money trying to do the same? Last we heard Frontier Communications is building the system in Norwich, a smaller town, for $200,000 (two-hundred thousand dollars). Binghamton hopes to do the same for $58,000 (fifty-eight thousand)? Tarik Abdelazim has never had a profitable venture in his life, now he thinks he can run a muni wifi system when Yahoo, Earthlink and a dozen other telecoms are pulling out because they say it can't be done??? Just Google “municipal wifi” and see how many disaster stories you will find in the last two years. Earthlink fired 1000 (one-thousand) employees because of failed muni wifi plans. But Tarik, will make this work? Yeah, right! Who lives in the service area being proposed? It is NOT students. Do you ever see students downtown other than Friday night? It is NOT tax payers. Taxpayers already have their own Internet providers. How many of you are reading this in a library because you do not have your own ISP? Will you drop RoadRunner for this new system? How many of you have the necessary hardware to capture the muni wifi system even if you do live where you can get it? It is people in public housing for the most part who wil use this system. Most of the hotels, restaurants and bars where anybody is doing BUSINESS are already covered with a wifi system or individuals have their own. Remember individuals???? Like most things being proposed or already implemented by Matt Ryan and Tarik Abdelazim (anybody remember voting for Abdelazim?), the Court Street Roundabout, the Riverwalk Extension, the Neighborhood Assemblies, the Blight Coordinator, the Sustainable Development Coordinator, the Community Relations Director, the Youth Director, this municipal wifi system is unwanted, unneeded, something that should be done by others, a waste of money that will do nothing for the economy of the City of Binghamton but everything for bolstering the political power of Citizen Action and its left-wing, socialist agenda. Wait until we see who advertises on this system. Ryan and Abdelazim will shuffle funds into it from other City budgets as propaganda. Frankly, I'm surprised Time-Warner Road Runner does not sue the City of Binghamton for unfair trade practices. BOTTOM LINE: This system will lose $30,000 (thirty thousand dollars) PER YEAR and be scrapped in 18 to 24 months, just in the time Ryan should be kicked out of office. Of course another $100,000 will have been wasted. Remember how important that $35,000 study of Justin Woods was at the time? Where is it now?? Compost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 In case you had any doubts abou tthe motives behind this: "stressing that the service would be free to users, he added, "It reflects the administration's commitment to equity and justice. It's really something that will put Binghamton on the map." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Tarik says 2000 peole have "signed up" Where have they signed up? Try finding "Binghamton wifi" and you get a site under contruction: http://www.srsplus.com/en-def-a81dcd567b77...ghamtonwifi.com Why do you have to sign up? Just give us the network name and password........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Wifi about equality and justice????? You know this wil be another Citizen Action propaganda tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stretch Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Maybe everybody on the edge of the service area can rebroadcast so those of us out in the sticks can use it as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 equality and justice????? Spend more money getting rid of drug dealers and crime would be a better use of OUR money wouldnt it? How about giving the Police a fair contract then maybe they will start doing their jobs again. The police are sandbagging and i dont blame them a bit! If i didnt have a contract in three years i wouldnt do any more then the bare neccessity either. Ryan and crew need to be eliminated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Any doubts "AlwaysWantsMore" is also "LetsBFaire"? I have done my research and it shows many cities have dropped their ideas for muni wifi, others have scaled them back, are all losing money. How this project came to about fairness and equality is anybody's guess. Will you also be buying wireless laptops for all those that need them to benefit from the network? Municipal Wi-Fi Networks Run Into Financial, Technical Trouble Wednesday, May 23, 2007 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,274728,00.html More Municipal Wireless Problems WiFiNetNews says a purchase of the Tempe Arizona municipal network may be off. Other bad news; Citywide Wi-Fi is dead in Yuma, reports the Yuma Sun. Kite Networks, has stalled the project indefinitely. Cities Scrap Municipal Wireless Plans Written By: Steven Titch Published In: Info Tech & Telecom News Publication Date: September 1, 2007 Publisher: The Heartland Institute http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=21874 Where's My Free Wi-Fi? Why municipal wireless networks have been such a flop. By Tim Wu Posted Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007, at 12:53 PM ET http://www.slate.com/id/2174858/pagenum/all/ EarthLink hangs "for sale" sign on municipal WiFi business By Eric Bangeman | Published: February 09, 2008 - 10:02PM CT EarthLink announced its fourth quarter earnings late last week, and it wasn't pretty. After six straight quarters of losses, the ISP has decided to exit the municipal WiFi sector and will actively look for someone to buy the business. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080...i-business.html http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/01/09/mo...eless-problems/ New Orleans to take city-wide WiFi network offline By Eric Bangeman | Published: October 23, 2006 - 11:22AM CT In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans came up with a plan to help get its communications infrastructure back up and running: a free, city-wide WiFi network. Built with equipment donated by Intel, Tropos Networks, and Pronto Networks, the Crescent City's municipal WiFi network will soon be going dark. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20061023-8052.html?rel Stay Current Features10 Reasons Your City Should Skip Municipal Wireless (1 Comment)There are real reasons for the cool down in municipal wifi. http://www.dailywireless.com/features/ten-...ni-wifi-101007/ YOU WANT ME TO DO MORE RESEARCH!!!!! That's funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Billy the Kid Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 I am afraid I have to agree that this project is the dumbest thing so far to come out of City Administartion! Who will use this service? Where are they selling the advertising? I just have a hard time believing that this project will be a benefit to the City Tax Payers. I have had several opportunities to invest within the City of Binghamton and just can't see where anything that this Administration is doing will benefit anyone but Welfare Recipients, Sex Offenders and the Administration themselves! When will you people wake up a oust this criminals? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat's Eye Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 More good reasons for downtown Wi-Fi. This article is on the msn.com homepage today: 5 New Ways to Use Wi-Fi By Dan Tynan, PC World There's lots more you can do with your wireless network than just surf the Web and transfer files. I bet you thought your Wi-Fi network was just for Web surfing. Silly rabbit. Wireless home networks are being used for all kinds of new tricks, and they aren't just for kids. Of course, there are Wi-Fi-ready game consoles, printers, storage devices, home security systems, and even a handful of digital cameras. But now a slew of new products are giving you even more reasons to kiss wires goodbye. 1. Crank up the tunes Not surprisingly, Wi-Fi is starting to have a big impact on digital music (it is a kind of radio, after all). Apple's iPod Touch and Microsoft's Zune both allow you to sync your music collections to your PC wirelessly. Zune also lets you share tunes with other Zuners in the same room. When it comes to Wi-Fi, however, the Music Gremlin has them both beat. The $249 Gremlin lets you download tunes from any hot spot and share them with other Gremlin users anywhere in the world (you'll have to pay a $15 monthly subscription or 99 cents per song). But the marriage of music and Wi-Fi doesn't end at your pocket. Denon's S-52 tabletop stereo ($699) can play MP3 files stored on your hard drive, tune into your fave Internet radio stations, or tap into a Rhapsody music subscription—no wires required. And the Sonos Digital Music System ($1,000 for a two-room starter kit) makes multiroom audio a snap, thanks to its internal wireless network. It now supports Rhapsody, Sirius Internet radio, Pandora, Windows Media Audio, and Zune (but still not iTunes—sigh). Pricey, yes. But it remains one of the coolest gadgets ever built. 2. Get the big picture Slowly but surely, Wi-Fi is bridging the gap between TV and the Internet—or at least helping you watch YouTube on your tube. The newly refreshed Apple TV, Take Two ($229 for the 40GB model) lets you rent movies or buy TV episodes from iTunes, download YouTube videos or podcasts, and beam them directly over your network to your set, bypassing your computer entirely. HP's MediaSmart HDTVs ($1,900 to $2,400) feature built-in Windows Media Extenders, so you can enjoy videos, photos, and music stored on your hard drive; rent or buy movies from CinemaNow; and dial up Internet radio stations—all without having to sit in the same room as your PC. Add a Wi-Fi adapter to your TiVo, and you can download shows from Amazon Unbox directly to your DVR, then shuttle recorded programs and other content between your computer and your set. 3. Surf the Web without a computer You can already beam pictures from your PC to a Wi-Fi-enabled photo frame like Samsung's SPF-72V or PhotoVu's PV1750. Services like FrameChannel can turn these static frames into information portals, delivering RSS feeds, news, weather reports, NASA photos, cartoons, trivia, and (my personal favorite) the Beer Channel to your frame. Just create a free account online and pick the channels you want. The Chumby personal Internet player does this and then some. The $180 gadget is about the size of an alarm clock; besides photos, news, and weather, it can display your POP e-mail, eBay auctions, Craigslist classifieds, Netflix queue, electronic greeting cards, and interactive games. Chumby units should be available in early spring. 4. Take the Internet to go Wi-Fi is making the move to cars. Dash Navigation's Dash Express GPS device ($599) will offer two-way communications via cellular networks or a hot spot when one is in range. You'll be able to do Yahoo Local searches, get real-time traffic and weather updates, or send directions straight to your car's GPS unit (but you'll need to fork out another $10 to $13 a month for a subscription). Dash expects to ship its first commercial devices next month. Meanwhile, Autonet Mobile can turn your car into a rolling Wi-Fi hot spot—so you can log on from your laptop in the passenger seat as you cruise down the open road. Autonet Mobile is currently available in Avis rental cars, and the company plans to (finally) launch a consumer version of the product in February. 5. Keep your home humming Wireless networks are also coming to your kitchen, laundry room, and beyond. For example, Miele builds Wi-Fi into both its Honeycomb washers and dryers ($1300+) and its upcoming MasterCool refrigerators and wine coolers (pricing unavailable at press time). When the appliance detects a problem--a device fails, or you simply left the fridge door open, threatening the safety of your pricey wine collection--the device will send a message over your home Internet connection to a Miele technician, who can tell you to shut the fridge or set up a service appointment. In addition, Miele says it plans to roll out its RemoteVision diagnostic service this spring. In the "Laundry Time" project, Whirlpool, HP, and Microsoft tested Wi-Fi-enabled appliances that alert consumers when it's time to move the laundry from the washer to the dryer. (No products have been announced yet.) In Japan, Toto sells an "Intelligence Toilet" that monitors your health (you don't want to know how) and can transmit that information across a network to your doctor's office. Chatty toilets have yet to be spotted on this side of the Pacific, but you know it's only a matter of time. Before long your appliances may be talking about you behind your back—so treat them well. 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Aaron Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 I am afraid I have to agree that this project is the dumbest thing so far to come out of City Administartion! Who will use this service? Where are they selling the advertising? I just have a hard time believing that this project will be a benefit to the City Tax Payers. I have had several opportunities to invest within the City of Binghamton and just can't see where anything that this Administration is doing will benefit anyone but Welfare Recipients, Sex Offenders and the Administration themselves! When will you people wake up a oust this criminals? I'm guessing it has something to do with students. I agree though its not going to be profitable. Not really sure what the vacancy rate is on apartments downtown but im sure a lot need to be fixed up. College age people would be attracted to free internet and it might sway where they live. I know a few that picked a house because of the hot tub it had. Although a lot of the apartments downtown need to be renovated first I'm assuming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 That is a wireless HOME signal & network, NOT a muni wifi network!!!! Nothing the City of Binghamton is offering or proposing will allow you to do that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Equity and justice? How DEELETED' gay. Come off it Tarik. You grew up on East Hampton Road, not in East Pakistan. Spare us your post teenage psychodrama and guilt over being born an upper middle class son of a physician. It's extremely tiresome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat's Eye Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Okay Mr. Naysayer, here is the front page article from today's msn.com homepage about wi-fi in many mafor cities. I'm sure you'll find something negative in this and point it out. I, on the other hand, will stick with being optimistic. Our city is keeping up with the times and influencing educated people to come here and hopefully more businesses. Developers will also see opportunity. America's Most Wired Cities By Elizabeth Woyke, Forbes.com Pop quiz: What's America's most wired city? You might guess someplace in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles or San Diego. East Coast fans might bet on New York or even Chicago. But you've got to head south. For the second year in a row, Atlanta tops Forbes.com's survey of America's most wired cities in the U.S. (See the complete list.) A variety of factors boosts the Big Peach's techno quotient. As the communications hub for the Southeast, Atlanta boasts regional headquarters for AT&T and Verizon and a bustling community of Internet-related start-ups. It's also home to BellSouth and EarthLink—a major promoter of citywide wireless networks until recent months—as well as cable giant Cox Communications. And it got an early jump on cutting-edge technology after spending millions to wire its downtown area for the 1996 Olympics. Still, its leading status mystifies some. "It's a dynamic area with a lot of young people, but exactly why it's No. 1 is a mystery to me," notes telecom analyst Jeff Kagan, who coincidentally is a longtime resident of Atlanta. Here are some clues. To calculate our list, we looked at the percentage of Internet users with high-speed access, the range of service providers within a city and the availability of public wireless hot spots. Atlanta ranks highest in broadband adoption, access options and fourth in Wi-Fi availability. According to Nielsen Online, 97.2% of the city's home Internet users accessed the Web via a high-speed connection in November. Some obvious choices finished high on the list. Techie Seattle, home to Microsoft, came in second, one notch above last year. San Francisco, the closest major city to Silicon Valley, was fourth for the second time. Though rich in hot spots, both lagged behind other cities in broadband adoption. (It works the other way, as well: Boston ranks second in broadband but poorer showings in the other categories dragged it down to 13th overall.) Two other major metropolises, Chicago and New York, improved their standings from 17th to eighth and 12th to ninth, respectively, to make the top 10, driven by more widespread adoption of high-speed Internet. Other top-10 finishers were more surprising, such as third-place Raleigh, N.C. Raleigh Chief Information Officer Gail M. Roper attributes the city's strong showing to its thriving entrepreneurial culture, technology initiatives, major universities and fast-growing, highly-educated population. As CIO of Kansas City, Mo., (No. 22) from 1996 to 2006, Roper focused on digital-divide issues, working to improve youth and student access to the Internet. In Raleigh, she is considering building a citywide Wi-Fi network to expedite public services, cut telecom costs and deliver tourism information. Fifth-place Orlando, Fla., and Baltimore also aren't top-of-mind when it comes to Internet initiatives. But Orlando, home to tourist-magnet Disney World, has "people coming in from all over--it has to be wired," explains Kagan. Baltimore vaulted to a 16th-place finish as the number of broadband providers and the adoption of those services rose dramatically last year. Los Angeles wasn't as lucky. The entertainment capital suffered the biggest drop, plummeting from No. 11 to No. 27, based on lackluster results in all three categories, particularly in the number of broadband access providers. Close competition makes the tumble look worse than it is. First-place Atlanta is home to 17 broadband providers, while Los Angeles, with only 11, now ranks 25th in access options this year. Houston, Cleveland and Detroit dropped off the list completely, allowing newcomers Denver (No. 17), Indianapolis (No. 24) and Milwaukee (No. 28) to make their debut. Measuring a city's "wired-ness" is an imperfect science. New York's less-wired outer boroughs weigh down its overall ranking. Some new initiatives aren't yet reflected in the data we used. Several lower-ranked cities, like Philadelphia (No. 26), are building wireless networks that provide Wi-Fi to downtown areas. In New York, CBS is constructing hot spots in midtown Manhattan (See "NYC's Biggest Hot Spot.") Start-up Meraki recently announced it would offer free high-speed wireless Internet throughout San Francisco by the end of 2008. Top-ranked Atlanta, meanwhile, has seen plans for such a system fizzle in recent months. The ubiquity of such Wi-Fi networks is difficult to quantify and not measured in our wireless hot spot data. Longer term, the outcome of the Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction, which is pitting traditional telecom companies against newcomers, including Internet titan Google, will also have a major impact on the availability of wireless service throughout the U.S. (For more on the auctions, see “Phoning In Wireless Dreams” and “Google’s Wireless World.”) Though hot spots are sprouting across the country, as major Wi-Fi provider Wayport powers more than 10,000 in hotel chains, airports and McDonald's, most Americans still rely on phone and cable firms for their Web access. Nearly half (47%) of adult Americans had a broadband connection at home in March 2007, representing 12% year-over-year growth, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Of those users, 70% had a broadband connection, while 23% used dial-up. A separate Pew study done in December 2006 found that 19% of Internet users have wireless networks in their homes. Those figures may be upended soon. "Broadband adoption is starting to plateau," says Bruce McGregor, senior analyst of Digital Home Services for market researcher Current Analysis. Telephone companies have traditionally offered digital subscriber lines (DSL) at lower prices while cable firms charged premiums for faster connections. But these days, the broadband industry's focus is bundling services, such as voice, data and TV, for a reduced price. The new model is pitting telcos against cable providers. AT&T and Verizon have spent the past two years or so upgrading to super-speedy, fiber-optic networks. Verizon's FiOS has had a significant impact in the areas where it is offered, says McGregor, with the company selling service to 6.5 million households by the end of September 2007. AT&T says it will aggressively expand its competing service, U-verse, to 30 million homes by 2010. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel still appears committed to roll out a nationwide high-speed wireless network using its WiMAX technology sometime this year. To compile our list, we began with top markets in broadband adoption as determined by Internet market research firm Nielsen Online. Utilizing Nielsen market data eliminated some large, tech-savvy cities, such as San Jose, Calif. (Nielsen aggregates San Jose data with the San Francisco market area, and so San Jose's broadband can't be accessed separately.) We also dropped cities that didn't make the U.S. Census Bureau's top 100 list, including Salt Lake City and Hartford, Conn. We then calculated the number of service providers per city using statistics from the FCC and Wi-Fi hot spots per capita via public hot spot directory JiWire. More accurate data may be on its way. A "broadband census" bill proposed by Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and passed by the House of Representatives in November asks the FCC to collect more detailed information on the price and speed of broadband service and the number of subscribers in a particular ZIP code. That could mean a radically different list in 2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Okay Mr. Naysayer, here is the front page article from today's msn.com homepage about wi-fi in many mafor cities. I'm sure you'll find something negative in this and point it out. I, on the other hand, will stick with being optimistic. Our city is keeping up with the times and influencing educated people to come here and hopefully more businesses. Developers will also see opportunity. America's Most Wired Cities By Elizabeth Woyke, Forbes.com Pop quiz: What's America's most wired city? You might guess someplace in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles or San Diego. East Coast fans might bet on New York or even Chicago. But you've got to head south. For the second year in a row, Atlanta tops Forbes.com's survey of America's most wired cities in the U.S. (See the complete list.) A variety of factors boosts the Big Peach's techno quotient. As the communications hub for the Southeast, Atlanta boasts regional headquarters for AT&T and Verizon and a bustling community of Internet-related start-ups. It's also home to BellSouth and EarthLink—a major promoter of citywide wireless networks until recent months—as well as cable giant Cox Communications. And it got an early jump on cutting-edge technology after spending millions to wire its downtown area for the 1996 Olympics. Still, its leading status mystifies some. "It's a dynamic area with a lot of young people, but exactly why it's No. 1 is a mystery to me," notes telecom analyst Jeff Kagan, who coincidentally is a longtime resident of Atlanta. Here are some clues. To calculate our list, we looked at the percentage of Internet users with high-speed access, the range of service providers within a city and the availability of public wireless hot spots. Atlanta ranks highest in broadband adoption, access options and fourth in Wi-Fi availability. According to Nielsen Online, 97.2% of the city's home Internet users accessed the Web via a high-speed connection in November. Some obvious choices finished high on the list. Techie Seattle, home to Microsoft, came in second, one notch above last year. San Francisco, the closest major city to Silicon Valley, was fourth for the second time. Though rich in hot spots, both lagged behind other cities in broadband adoption. (It works the other way, as well: Boston ranks second in broadband but poorer showings in the other categories dragged it down to 13th overall.) Two other major metropolises, Chicago and New York, improved their standings from 17th to eighth and 12th to ninth, respectively, to make the top 10, driven by more widespread adoption of high-speed Internet. Other top-10 finishers were more surprising, such as third-place Raleigh, N.C. Raleigh Chief Information Officer Gail M. Roper attributes the city's strong showing to its thriving entrepreneurial culture, technology initiatives, major universities and fast-growing, highly-educated population. As CIO of Kansas City, Mo., (No. 22) from 1996 to 2006, Roper focused on digital-divide issues, working to improve youth and student access to the Internet. In Raleigh, she is considering building a citywide Wi-Fi network to expedite public services, cut telecom costs and deliver tourism information. Fifth-place Orlando, Fla., and Baltimore also aren't top-of-mind when it comes to Internet initiatives. But Orlando, home to tourist-magnet Disney World, has "people coming in from all over--it has to be wired," explains Kagan. Baltimore vaulted to a 16th-place finish as the number of broadband providers and the adoption of those services rose dramatically last year. Los Angeles wasn't as lucky. The entertainment capital suffered the biggest drop, plummeting from No. 11 to No. 27, based on lackluster results in all three categories, particularly in the number of broadband access providers. Close competition makes the tumble look worse than it is. First-place Atlanta is home to 17 broadband providers, while Los Angeles, with only 11, now ranks 25th in access options this year. Houston, Cleveland and Detroit dropped off the list completely, allowing newcomers Denver (No. 17), Indianapolis (No. 24) and Milwaukee (No. 28) to make their debut. Measuring a city's "wired-ness" is an imperfect science. New York's less-wired outer boroughs weigh down its overall ranking. Some new initiatives aren't yet reflected in the data we used. Several lower-ranked cities, like Philadelphia (No. 26), are building wireless networks that provide Wi-Fi to downtown areas. In New York, CBS is constructing hot spots in midtown Manhattan (See "NYC's Biggest Hot Spot.") Start-up Meraki recently announced it would offer free high-speed wireless Internet throughout San Francisco by the end of 2008. Top-ranked Atlanta, meanwhile, has seen plans for such a system fizzle in recent months. The ubiquity of such Wi-Fi networks is difficult to quantify and not measured in our wireless hot spot data. Longer term, the outcome of the Federal Communications Commission spectrum auction, which is pitting traditional telecom companies against newcomers, including Internet titan Google, will also have a major impact on the availability of wireless service throughout the U.S. (For more on the auctions, see “Phoning In Wireless Dreams” and “Google’s Wireless World.”) Though hot spots are sprouting across the country, as major Wi-Fi provider Wayport powers more than 10,000 in hotel chains, airports and McDonald's, most Americans still rely on phone and cable firms for their Web access. Nearly half (47%) of adult Americans had a broadband connection at home in March 2007, representing 12% year-over-year growth, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Of those users, 70% had a broadband connection, while 23% used dial-up. A separate Pew study done in December 2006 found that 19% of Internet users have wireless networks in their homes. Those figures may be upended soon. "Broadband adoption is starting to plateau," says Bruce McGregor, senior analyst of Digital Home Services for market researcher Current Analysis. Telephone companies have traditionally offered digital subscriber lines (DSL) at lower prices while cable firms charged premiums for faster connections. But these days, the broadband industry's focus is bundling services, such as voice, data and TV, for a reduced price. The new model is pitting telcos against cable providers. AT&T and Verizon have spent the past two years or so upgrading to super-speedy, fiber-optic networks. Verizon's FiOS has had a significant impact in the areas where it is offered, says McGregor, with the company selling service to 6.5 million households by the end of September 2007. AT&T says it will aggressively expand its competing service, U-verse, to 30 million homes by 2010. Meanwhile, Sprint Nextel still appears committed to roll out a nationwide high-speed wireless network using its WiMAX technology sometime this year. To compile our list, we began with top markets in broadband adoption as determined by Internet market research firm Nielsen Online. Utilizing Nielsen market data eliminated some large, tech-savvy cities, such as San Jose, Calif. (Nielsen aggregates San Jose data with the San Francisco market area, and so San Jose's broadband can't be accessed separately.) We also dropped cities that didn't make the U.S. Census Bureau's top 100 list, including Salt Lake City and Hartford, Conn. We then calculated the number of service providers per city using statistics from the FCC and Wi-Fi hot spots per capita via public hot spot directory JiWire. More accurate data may be on its way. A "broadband census" bill proposed by Rep. Edward J. Markey, D-Mass., and passed by the House of Representatives in November asks the FCC to collect more detailed information on the price and speed of broadband service and the number of subscribers in a particular ZIP code. That could mean a radically different list in 2009. OK, Ms. Bootlicker and Cheerleader. Tell us how much Binghamton has in common with Atlanta, Raleigh, and Orlando, and how we are about ready to clean their clocks with Tarik's new 60-90 days a year walkie-talkie system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Equity and justice? How friggin' gay. Come off it Tarik. You grew up on East Hampton Road, not in East Pakistan. Spare us your post teenage psychodrama and guilt over being born an upper middle class son of a physician. It's extremely tiresome. His proletarian pose is a s phony as the day is long. This guy grew up with a tennis court and swimming pool in the yard, so can we please stop with the workers of world unite nonsense, and actually tend to real city business? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Navin R Johnson Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Referred to post has been DELETED Where is BTK or holly when we need them? i smell a 13 year old about to be banned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat's Eye Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 OK, Ms. Bootlicker and Cheerleader. Tell us how much Binghamton has in common with Atlanta, Raleigh, and Orlando, and how we are about ready to clean their clocks with Tarik's new 60-90 days a year walkie-talkie system. Don't you believe in aspirations? Why shouldn't a small city like Binghamton try it's best to emulate cities like Atlanta, Raleigh, and Orlando? No, we'll never reach their population size, but hey, you have to start somewhere in order to move forward. To add, why don't you register? It's really annoying having debates with "Guests". If you're so confidant in what you write, you should feel confidant with attributing your posts to one Username. It's really no big deal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Don't you believe in aspirations? Why shouldn't a small city like Binghamton try it's best to emulate cities like Atlanta, Raleigh, and Orlando? No, we'll never reach their population size, but hey, you have to start somewhere in order to move forward. To add, why don't you register? It's really annoying having debates with "Guests". If you're so confidant in what you write, you should feel confidant with attributing your posts to one Username. It's really no big deal. I am "confidant" I don't know anyone named "cat's Eye", and if we are emulating other cities, how about if we emulate those that can pave their streets. That would actually be a start, instead of rich kid Che Guevara wannabe Tarik's feel good, self-indulgent, self administered hand job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Another RAINBOW RYAN blunder! now all the pedio-pervs will be online looking for free at our exspence! WAY TO GO RYAN YOU PIECE OF WORK! People like you have lost credibility. You would whine if he did not do it and whine when he does. Take your "hate ryan" glasses off once in a while, see what the world looks like to everyone else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Already they are three months late in getting this off the ground. It was supposed to be ready in Janaury. When the idea was introduced Abdelazim said it would cost around $30,000 (thirty thousand) per year and HALF those costs would be covered by advertising and HALF by user fees. Now there are no user fees. Miraculously, there are 2000 people signed up, Abdelazim claims. In reality the entire population of the City of Binghamton is 45,000 and 2000 people DO NOT live within the proposed service area of this project. Selling advertising costs money and requires time and effort. Who will sell these advertisements? Who will administer the sales effort? Who will create the ads? Who will do the billing? Who will handle the collections? Will Ryan and Abdelazim hire more City employees and hide those costs in others budgets? How will Binghamton make this tiny system profitable when most other cities are losing buckets of money trying to do the same? Last we heard Frontier Communications is building the system in Norwich, a smaller town, for $200,000 (two-hundred thousand dollars). Binghamton hopes to do the same for $58,000 (fifty-eight thousand)? Tarik Abdelazim has never had a profitable venture in his life, now he thinks he can run a muni wifi system when Yahoo, Earthlink and a dozen other telecoms are pulling out because they say it can't be done??? Just Google "municipal wifi" and see how many disaster stories you will find in the last two years. Earthlink fired 1000 (one-thousand) employees because of failed muni wifi plans. But Tarik, will make this work? Yeah, right! Who lives in the service area being proposed? It is NOT students. Do you ever see students downtown other than Friday night? It is NOT tax payers. Taxpayers already have their own Internet providers. How many of you are reading this in a library because you do not have your own ISP? Will you drop RoadRunner for this new system? How many of you have the necessary hardware to capture the muni wifi system even if you do live where you can get it? It is people in public housing for the most part who wil use this system. Most of the hotels, restaurants and bars where anybody is doing BUSINESS are already covered with a wifi system or individuals have their own. Remember individuals???? Like most things being proposed or already implemented by Matt Ryan and Tarik Abdelazim (anybody remember voting for Abdelazim?), the Court Street Roundabout, the Riverwalk Extension, the Neighborhood Assemblies, the Blight Coordinator, the Sustainable Development Coordinator, the Community Relations Director, the Youth Director, this municipal wifi system is unwanted, unneeded, something that should be done by others, a waste of money that will do nothing for the economy of the City of Binghamton but everything for bolstering the political power of Citizen Action and its left-wing, socialist agenda. Wait until we see who advertises on this system. Ryan and Abdelazim will shuffle funds into it from other City budgets as propaganda. Frankly, I'm surprised Time-Warner Road Runner does not sue the City of Binghamton for unfair trade practices. BOTTOM LINE: This system will lose $30,000 (thirty thousand dollars) PER YEAR and be scrapped in 18 to 24 months, just in the time Ryan should be kicked out of office. Of course another $100,000 will have been wasted. Remember how important that $35,000 study of Justin Woods was at the time? Where is it now?? Compost. so the system is set up more cheaply than Norwich - covers more ground - gives more people, more acess - is going to be free rather than charged for...and yet you still DELETED, whine and moan. amazing. you are one seriously DELETED up dude. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 Tarik says 2000 peole have "signed up" Where have they signed up? Try finding "Binghamton wifi" and you get a site under contruction: http://www.srsplus.com/en-def-a81dcd567b77...ghamtonwifi.com Why do you have to sign up? Just give us the network name and password........ I thought he said "signed on" not "signed up" but I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 equality and justice????? Spend more money getting rid of drug dealers and crime would be a better use of OUR money wouldnt it? How about giving the Police a fair contract then maybe they will start doing their jobs again. The police are sandbagging and i dont blame them a bit! If i didnt have a contract in three years i wouldnt do any more then the bare neccessity either. Ryan and crew need to be eliminated! I agree - except of course the main part of your argument...They did not use our money - the money could not have been used for police, it was grant money for this puprpose. duh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Guest Posted February 17, 2008 Report Share Posted February 17, 2008 How many people really need to use thier computers outdoors downtown, and with Binghamton's weather, how many days a year will this WiFi actually be of any practical use? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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