Free wireless Internet in the public space

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Free wireless Internet in the public space

• Presented by Esme de Guzman Vos
• Founder, Muniwireless.com
• URL www.muniwireless.com
• Amsterdam, Netherlands
• San Francisco, California

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State of Municipal Wireless Sept 2006 list of
cities and regions (developments since July 2005)
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Sept 2005 State of the Market Report

• Compound annual growth rate of 134 between 2004
  and 2007
• US market will exceed 400 million by 2007
• Top application public safety
• Fastest growing cities want citywide Wi-Fi
• Saves money on municipal operations
• Infrastructure for public access
• Report available at
• http//muniwireless.microcast.biz/market_report.ph
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Business models supporting investment in muni
Wi-Fi networks

• Open network, carrier-neutral, wholesale access
  Philadelphia, SF, and just about everyone else
• Free broadband service supported by advertising
  MetroFi and Google
• Free broadband service as amenity
• ROI to city from increased efficiency and savings
  on telecoms and operations

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Free wireless Internet access

• Wireless access is an amenity like a public
  swimming pool or library or it is infrastructure
  like a traffic roundabout
• St. Cloud, Florida 28,000 people, 3 Mbps
  symmetrical bandwidth
• Mountain View, California Google
• MetroFi cities Portland (OR), Aurora (IL),
  Cupertino, Santa Clara, and other cities in
  California
• Other cities free and paid options

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Killer apps free voice over Wi-Fi and data
everywhere

• Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices Nokia 770 Tablet
  (Linux OS), Nokia N Series and E Series
• Gizmo Project and Skype on the 770 and Nokia
  phones free calls
• People want to own identity no need to remember
  phone numbers, move numbers from one operator to
  another, phone numbers are impersonal
• People hate walled gardens and hate being
  metered
• People want their data everywhere like voice no
  distinction between voice bits and data bits

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Hotspots are yesterdays news

• Machine-to-machine communications the Internet
  of Things
• Automated gas-water-electricity meter reading
  smart traffic management
• Truly portable communications on open networks,
  carrier-neutral networks
• Seamless roaming between GSM and Wi-Fi networks
• New business models the traditional bill-by-the
  month/day/hour is yesterdays news (metering)
• All devices will be equipped with Wi-Fi

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• Muniwireless Esme Vos www.muniwireless.com
• GigaOm Om Malik
• gigaom.com
• VOIP Watch Andy Abramson andyabramson.blogs.com/v
  oipwatch/
• Euro Telco Blog James Enck eurotelcoblog.blogspot
  .com/
• Techcrunch Michael Arrington www.techcrunch.com

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2006.2006 State of the Market Report to be
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