{"id":320,"date":"2007-04-05T12:03:30","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T17:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/04\/05\/arlington-county-wide-wifi\/"},"modified":"2007-04-05T12:22:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-05T17:22:45","slug":"arlington-county-wide-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/04\/05\/arlington-county-wide-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington: County-wide WiFi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Arlington County has provisionally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wi-fiplanet.com\/news\/article.php\/3669746\">tapped Earthlink<\/a> to build, operate, and own a county-wide WiFi network.  Arlington already provides free WiFi (near the Courthhouse complex, in the Quincy Park library, and probably most other libraries), but that still leaves most of this small county uncovered.   Details are sketchy, but based upon other Earthink municipal network deal, it will probably look something like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The network, once fully installed, will cover 26 square miles and provide wireless broadband for residents and visitors, as well as connections for on-the-move county employees. Yet-to-be-determined nonprofit partners of the county would likely get free access, and free hotspot service will be provided in parks, libraries and community centers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen no coverage of this before today,  so I&#8217;m reserving judgment until I get more details.   I&#8217;m quite familiar with the pro and con arguments for municipal networks, and I hope this will turn out to be a good deal for Arlington residents.   That&#8217;s not a safe assumption, though, so it&#8217;s worth some closer scrutiny.  The deal is going to the County Board on April 28th for approval.  I&#8217;ll see what I can find before then, and share it here.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong> Arlington&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arlingtonva.us\/departments\/Commissions\/catvcomm\/CatvcommMain.aspx\">Cable Television and Information Technology Advisory Commission<\/a> describes it thusly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The terms of the agreement provide significant public benefit to the County to include free wireless access in designated community centers, county parks, recreation centers, and public school facilities.\u00c2\u00a0 Earthlink will offer competitive monthly and short-term subscription rates to residents, businesses, and visitors for the broadband wireless service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, there will be a public hearing on the proposed agreement (of which I&#8217;ve yet to find a copy) on April 10, 2007, in room 311 of the Courthouse Plaza Government Center at 2100 Clarendon Blvd, beginning at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that Arlington County has provisionally tapped Earthlink to build, operate, and own a county-wide WiFi network. Arlington already provides free WiFi (near the Courthhouse complex, in the Quincy Park library, and probably most other libraries), but that still leaves most of this small county uncovered. Details are sketchy, but based upon other Earthink [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-tech","category-virginia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}