[Rooftops] Fwd: FW: [CTC] Muniwireless.com

[Jim Youll]

>Subject: Muniwireless.com
>Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2003 10:59:27 -0500
>
>http://www.muniwireless.com/
>
>This site is devoted to municipal wireless projects worldwide
>that are funded and/or run by cities and towns. These can be
>simple downtown hotspots or city-wide wireless broadband networks
>designed to bring cheap broadband to all local residents.
>Although we often use the word "city", rural municipalities
>receive equal coverage because they are leading the fight for
>affordable, universal access to the Internet.
>
>We have included a category called Community Wireless to
>highlight wireless projects organized and run by local residents,
>with or without support from the municipality. We believe that
>these grassroots initiatives force local and regional governments
>to support affordable wireless (and wired) broadband access to
>the Internet whether it be through financial or regulatory means.
>
>We also deliver news about wireless technologies (Wi-Fi,
>metropolitan area networks), the many ways in which people have
>made wireless access part of their lives, legal and regulatory
>issues affecting wireless access, and the rise of city carriers.
>
>To make this site even more useful for municipalities and
>regions, hardware and service providers, we have included topics
>on where to find money for projects (subsidies), tenders (to help
>those issuing public tenders), tender responses (for those
>responding to public tenders) and reports on how municipalities
>around the world are tackling their wireless projects.
>
>We would like to hear from you about stories, links, and contact
>details of people involved in projects. If we have made any
>errors or our news items need to be updated, please email:
>info at muniwireless.com.
>
>Who we are
>
>Muniwireless.com is an initiative of Lemon Cloud BV, an
>Amsterdam-based legal and consulting services company. Lemon
>Cloud's services include providing in-house legal counsel
>services on a part-time basis, drafting and negotiating
>agreements for sales, licensing, and distribution transactions,
>assisting companies in closing large licensing and distribution
>deals, creating an intellectual property infrastructure for
>early-stage companies, sales force training, assisting IT
>companies in fundraising and M&A, and business development
>activities for clients.
>
>The founder, Esme Vos, is an intellectual property lawyer, gadget
>freak, writer and former chemist. She has written
>technology-related articles for Europemedia.net and remains
>passionate about the Mac, one year after switching from Windows.
>She believes in affordable Internet broadband access for everyone
>and wants to help people and their local governments find ways to
>get around the roadblocks posed by local telecom and cable
>incumbents that have kept access prohibitively expensive or
>unavailable. When not lawyering, consulting, writing or ranting
>about expensive broadband, she travels, cooks, runs and
>meditates.