Earthlink scam - Anaheim is only 6 mile downtown test hotspot
kimo
Wide coverage for Anaheim on 6/29
Guess what? It's only a Downtown 6 mile pilot, even their coverage map
shows this to be the case see here:
http://www.emnwifi.com/cities/anaheim/
Here's minutes from a 5/30/06 City Council Meeting
http://www.anaheim.net/docsagend/questyspub/MG9546/AS9585/AS9588/AI11217/DO11249/1.DOC
The May 30, 2006 City Council meeting was called to order at 3:13 P.M.
in the Council Chambers of Anaheim City Hall, 200 South Anaheim
Boulevard.
PRESENT: Mayor Curt Pringle, Council Members: Richard Chavez, Lorri
Galloway, Bob Hernandez and Harry Sidhu.
STAFF PRESENT: City Manager Dave Morgan, City Attorney Jack White, and
City Clerk Sheryll Schroeder.
A copy of the agenda for the meeting of the Anaheim City Council was
posted on May 26, 2006 at the City Hall exterior bulletin board.
EARTHLINK CITYWIDE WIFI WORKSHOP
Tom Wood, Assistant City Manager, provided an update on the EarthLink
WIFI system. Providing background details, he reported Council had
authorized a franchise with EarthLink for one of the largest municipal
WIFI networks to be privately constructed in the nation that would
serve the entire City of Anaheim. He stated the implementation details
had been worked through and antenna installation had begun with two
square miles now completed as part of the six mile test area in which
EarthLink was required to perform a proof of concept as part of the
franchise agreement. Mr. Wood indicated the test area was located near
City Hall and the antennas could be seen if you looked for them,
although they blended into the street lights and/or traffic light
poles. EarthLink, he added, would soon go to full deployment Citywide
and the only issues remaining were in the Resort area relating to
aesthetics for the different style and color of street lights and in
Anaheim Hills due to the topography. Mayor Pringle asked what the June
29th target date intended and Mr. Wood responded the six square miles
of test area would be up and operating and testing of the performance
standards would be completed. Nine months after that date, Mr. Wood
indicated the rest of the City would be operational.
see Earthlink's Press Release here:
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-29-2006/0004389658&EDATE=
ATLANTA and ANAHEIM, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Today, EarthLink (Nasdaq: ELNK), the nation's next generation Internet
service provider (ISP), officially launched its first municipal Wi-Fi
broadband network in the City of Anaheim. Curt Pringle, the Mayor of
Anaheim, will officially 'unwire' the City at a wire cutting ceremony
beginning at 11:00 a.m., PT this morning.