RubberBuzz || Akron Unleashed: Could We Be Going Wireless?

12.01.2005

Could We Be Going Wireless?

Finally, my dreams are coming true! I just need a laptop...

For more than a year, Akron's chief technology officer, Rick Leu, talked with companies about installing a citywide wireless network that would allow anybody to plug into the Internet without actually plugging into a wall.

Whoa, whoa, whoa... our what? Chief technology officer? What the hell is that?

Akron has chosen NeoReach, a subsidiary of MobilePro Corp. of Maryland, to install a pilot wireless network near Fulton International Airport. The test area will serve city workers and could become the seed for a citywide network open to residents and businesses.

NeoReach also has initiated a pilot program in Cuyahoga Falls. If both pilots are taken citywide with NeoReach, residents could have access to the Internet from either city with the same account.[...]

Akron will receive free access for city business in exchange for allowing the network's use of its ``vertical assets'' -- tall things such as buildings and light poles where NeoReach can stick on antennas.

It's like a glimmer of hope for my MoBlogging aspirations!

The BJ :: Akron gets Wi-Fi plan off ground

(joe :: Could We Be Going Wireless?)

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