{"id":472,"date":"2007-08-28T09:28:05","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/28\/arlington-wifi-on-hold\/"},"modified":"2007-08-28T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T13:28:05","slug":"arlington-wifi-on-hold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/28\/arlington-wifi-on-hold\/","title":{"rendered":"Arlington Wifi On Hold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Arlington County\/Earthlink wifi project <a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/04\/10\/earthlink-wifi-is-it-a-good-deal-for-arlington\/\">I wrote about back in April<\/a>?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, Earthlink did secure a contract with the County, but now that&#8217;s been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.muniwireless.com\/article\/view\/6347\/\">put on hold<\/a> as a result of Earthlink&#8217;s financial problems (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/a-893643~Earthlink_re_evaluation_slows_Alexandria__Arlington_Wi_Fi.html\">as has Alexandria&#8217;s network<\/a>, which has been partially built).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that no one&#8217;s relying on either of these networks at this point, but it does highlight the importance of building contingencies for situations like these into municipal wifi contracts.\u00c2\u00a0 It will be a shame if that equipment in Alexandria simply sits on the poles while Earthlink sorts itself out (Om Malik is <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/08\/27\/for-earthlink-black-tuesday-looms-job-cuts-restructuring\/\">reporting<\/a> that Earthlink is considering selling its municipal network division).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the Arlington County\/Earthlink wifi project I wrote about back in April?\u00c2\u00a0 Well, Earthlink did secure a contract with the County, but now that&#8217;s been put on hold as a result of Earthlink&#8217;s financial problems (as has Alexandria&#8217;s network, which has been partially built).\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The good news is that no one&#8217;s relying on either of [&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-472","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\/472","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=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}