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[Matthew Seeley]

That 'Municipal Wifi Initiative' turned into Clearwire's / Sprint's
WiMax "4G" service in Grand Rapids.

You can read about the history of the project from the grand rapids
city website at http://wirelessgr.com

Page 6 on this PDF gives a quick synopsis
http://mygrcity.us/departments/it/public/wireless/Documents/8-3-10MayorsWirelessBroadbandAdvisoryCommitteeandNewsConference%20packet.pdf


You can buy access to that network from Sprint or Clear. (Also
available prepaid through their 'Rover' brand)

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Matthew Seeley
Threadlight Systems
PO Box 612, Jenison MI 49429
T: (616) 328-5649



On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Dagny Scott <parsleyfirefly at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can tell you what happened to the Grand Rapids WiFi initiative; the
> company that was going to provide it was bought by Sprint and ended up in
> lawsuits with the company that had exclusive rights to sell Sprint services
> in West Michigan. At this point, with cellular data plans as common as they
> are, the appeal of this program has been greatly diminished.
>
> As for the Google fiber initiative, that hasn't been decided yet. Google put
> out a "request for information" that allows cities to lobby for inclusion in
> their Google Fiber for Communities project. No communities have been
> selected yet.
>
> Dagny
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Interesting.  There was some chatter
>> two years ago or so about GR putting
>> up a wireless system - about 1.5Mbps
>> down, and 256Kbps up.  Hopelessly
>> out of date even out of the gate.
>> Verizon: "Mar 24, 2011 WSJ reports 12.6 Mbps down & 4.7 Mbps up, fastest
>> in industry."
>> The last buzz was that Google might
>> consider GR for a 1Gbps service.  Pretty
>> clearly, it has lost interest in that.
>> But it's nice to see other towns doing
>> something.......  :-(     With MI being
>> dead last, second to the bottom, economically,
>> and losing population, don't look for Comcast
>> or others to stumble over themselves offering
>> more bandwidth in GR.
>>     -- Bob
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Joel Freiberg <jefrat72 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> My guess would be none, unless enough complain.
>>>
>>> I see Holland MI is on the list in the ARS article, though they only
>>> seem to offer to business and locals like schools.
>>>
>>> http://www.hollandbpw.com/Broadband/Pages/Services.aspx
>>>
>>> > Nice to see it all spelled out. I wonder
>>> > to what extent this means that providers
>>> > will have to adapt their terminology.
>>> >     -- Bob
>>>
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