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Press Releases
- DUMBO Goes Wireless (June 2, 2011)
- Free Wireless Internet For Brooklyn’s Underserved Children (Jul 31, 2009)
- Wagner Park Gets Hotter With Wi-Fi (Apr 24, 2008)
- One Jackson Square Brings Free High-Speed Internet to Jackson Square Park (Feb 15, 2008)
- Solar One Hotspot Launch (May 24, 2006)
Press Appearances — 2015
- Technical.ly: 12 communities experimenting with mesh networks (Apr 6)
Press Appearances — 2014
- CityLimits: Battle on Many Fronts to Get NYC Wired (Jul 22)
- TechPresident: New York City Payphone WiFi Project Presents Opportunities and Challenges (Jul 8)
- Voice of Russia US: Payphones to Become Free WIFI Hotspots in NYC (May 7)
- AlJazeera America: New York City to Turn Phone Booths into Wi-Fi Hot Spots (May 2)
- Latin Post: Free Wi-Fi in NYC: City Plans to Turn Phone Booths Into Wireless Hotspots, Mayor Bill de Blasio Says (May 2)
- Time: New York City’s Plan to Turn Pay Phones Into WiFi Hotspots (May 1)
- AM New York: Free Wi-Fi hot spots coming to city payphones (May 1)
- The Real Deal: Tech firms beg for city-wide broadband upgrade (Jan 14)
- Huffington Post: Welcome to the New York City Hunger Games for Broadband (Jan 13)
Press Appearances — 2013
- TechPresident: MileMesh Looks to Make Hoboken a Beacon for U.S. Mesh Networks (Dec 11)
- AM New York: City opens nation’s largest continuous Wi-Fi zone in Harlem (Dec 10)
- Newsday: NYC program to encourage free Wi-Fi expansion (Sep 30)
- AM New York: More free Wi-Fi coming to Brooklyn, Financial District and more (Sep 30)
- DNAInfo: Critics Question Deal For ‘Limited Free’ Wi-Fi in City Parks (Jul 17)
- reImagine Tech: How public Wi-Fi affects public policy, security and civil liberties (Apr 20)
Press Appearances — 2012
- Hot Hardware: EFF and Other Groups Push For Free Open WiFi Movement (Oct 31)
Press Appearances — 2011
- The Brooklyn Ink: Brooklyn Bridge Park First to Cross Over to Free Wi-Fi (Nov 9)
- BBC: The myth of free wi-fi (Sep 8)
- Park Slope Patch: WiFi? Why Not! (Jul 5)
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle: DUMBO Arts Festival Gets a Big New Partner (Jun 29)
- DailyWireless: Carrier-run Public WiFi Nets Expand (Jun 9)
- AdWeek: Dumbo Beats Manhattan to Free WiFi – Digital neighborhood officially a hot spot (Jun 3)
- The Brooklyn Paper: Work in the park! DUMBO is city’s first all-Wi Fi neighborhood (Jun 3)
- The Huffington Post: DUMBO The First NYC Neighborhood To Get Wi-Fi (Jun 2)
- NY1: Free Wi-Fi Access Coming To DUMBO (Jun 2)
- WCBS: DUMBO Wi-Fi, Free Wireless Internet Access, Unveiled In Brooklyn (Jun 2)
- News 12 (Brooklyn): Free outdoor Wi-Fi coming to BK neighborhood (Jun 2)
- Complex: DUMBO Becomes NYC’s First Neighborhood With Free Wi-Fi (Jun 2)
- The Village Voice: Dumbo Gets Free Wi-Fi; Manhattan’s Paid Version to Follow (Jun 2)
- Brooklyn Daily Eagle: DUMBO Goes Digital — Outdoors (Jun 2)
- Epoch Times: DUMBO Launches Full Coverage Public Wi-Fi (Jun 2)
- PR Week: Dumbo goes wireless with free outdoor network (Jun 2)
- Brooklyn Borough President: BP Markowitz Joins Dumbo Bid, Two Trees, Nycwireless to Announce Free Wi-Fi Service in Dumbo (Jun 2)
- NY Times: Using Internet Outside? In Part of Brooklyn, Free Wireless Access Arrives (Jun 2)
- BetaBeat: DUMBO, Where the Streets are Paved With Free Internet (Jun 2)
- Brownstoner: Dumbo: First NYC Nabe To Get Free Wi-Fi! (Jun 2)
- The New York Observer: Dumbo’s Parks, Plazas Fully Wired (Jun 2)
- Curbed: Two Trees To Bestow Free WiFi on the People of Dumbo (Jun 2)
- The L Magazine: DUMBO Gets City’s First Neighborhood-Wide Free Wireless Network (Jun 2)
- CBS News 4 New York: Brooklyn Nabe Gets Outdoor Wi-Fi (Jun 2)
- DUMBO NYC: Dumbo Brooklyn First to Offer Free Wireless Access (Jun 2)
- MediaPost: NYC’s DUMBO Gets Free Wi-Fi (Jun 2)
- The Yeshiva World News: Using Internet Outside? In Part of Brooklyn, Free Wireless Access Arrives (Jun 2)
- BobocaLand: Now, Free WiFi in DUMBO (Jun 2)
- Wi-Fi Networking News: Free Wi-Fi in New York’s DUMBO Neighborhood (Jun 2)
- The Funky Apple: Free WiFi in DUMBO launches today (Jun 2)
- The Huffington Post: DUMBO Wi-Fi: Taking Your Office Outdoors (Jun 2)
- New York Law School’s Legal as She is Spoke: There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch or Free Wi-Fi in Public Parks (Feb 14)
- Stop the Cap: Wi-Fi Ripoff? NYC Parks Hand Over Wireless Space to Time Warner and Cablevision (Feb 1)
- DNAInfo: Critics Blast Plan to Bring Dollar-a-Day Wireless to City Parks (Jan 26)
- AM New York: Council members to review WiFi deal in NYC parks (Jan 25)
Press Appearances — 2010
- Columbia Spectator: Wi-Fi may come to city parks, but only at a price (Sep 24)
- TelecomPaper: Time Warner, Cablevision to bring Wi-Fi to NYC parks (Sep 17)
- BroadbandReports: Time Warner, Cablevision Offering ‘Free’ NYC Park Wi-Fi (Sep 15)
- Inquisitr: NYC Parks to get somewhat free, very limited wifi (Sep 15)
- NY Daily News: City parks to get free Wifi, but limited to 30 minutes per user per month (Sep 14)
- MediaPost: New York’s Wi-Fi Bubble (Apr 15)
- CityLimits: NYC Web World Regroups After FCC Defeat (Apr 8)
Press Appearances — 2009
- AdvertisingAge: Chasing Mobile Audiences Beyond Phones (Dec 22)
- Washington Square News: Wifi hits Broadway at Times Square (Nov 13)
- NBC New York: Free WiFi Comes to Times Square: It’s about time (Nov 11)
- BBC Digital Planet: The Sentient City (Oct 28)
- NY Architectural League: Project Presentation: Breakout! (Oct 22)
- BBC News: Sentient cities may answer back (Oct 16)
- boing boing: NYC’s Data Mine: More like a data dump? (Oct 13)
- The New York Times Local Blog: The Day: Hot Spots, Ballots, Shots (Again) (Aug 4)
- NY Daily News: Free NYC: This summer, the fairest price is no fare at all (Aug 3)
- NY1: Free Wi-Fi Comes To Brooklyn Playground (July 31)
- Downtown Express: Underused lanes should be pedestrian space, BID says (July 24)
- New York Observer’s NYFI Blog: New Frontiers! Free Wireless Arrives in Clinton Hill (July 21)
- New America Foundation’s Wireless Future Blog: NYCwireless posts response to NY Parks RFI (June 23)
- MuniWireless: NYCwireless posts response to NY Parks RFI (June 23)
- MediaPost Mobile Intelligencer: Times Square ‘Mobile Zone’ Hot Spot Not So Hot (June 23)
- Fox 5 News: Wireless In The City (May 18)
- MuniWireless: NYC issues RFI for free Wi-Fi service in parks and public areas (May 15)
- New York Post: New York City Looks To Bring Wi-Fi Back To Parks (May 14)
- Nerdabout (Discovery Channel): New Work City — You’ll Never Work Alone Again (Feb 11)
- The New York Times: Deal for Wireless Access in City Parks Collapses (Jan 8)
- NewYorkology: Central Park unplugged; free wi-fi shut down (Jan 7)
- New York Times: Deal Collapses for Free Wi-Fi in Parks (Jan 7)
- Crain’s New York Business: Wi-Fi unplugged in city parks (Jan 6)
- The New Worker: NYCwireless at New Work City (Jan 6)
Press Appearances — 2008
- Brighthand: In the Future, Phones May Be the Primary Method of Internet Access (Dec 18)
- Contech: Wifi: A Privilege or an Entitlement? (Dec 11)
- Gotham Gazette: The Fight Over Broadcasting’s ‘White Space’ (Dec 1)
- neo-nomad: They’re Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side (Oct 20)
- Ars Technica: Is New York City an anti-white space town? (Oct 1)
- Government Technologies Digital Communities: Overseas Wireless Deployments Offer Lessons for U.S. (Jun 30)
- New York Times: Let Your Fingertips Be Your Guidebook (Jun 29)
- Silicon Alley Insider: Big-City Muni Wi-Fi Dead, Urban Wireless Isn’t (Mar 24)
- New York Sun: An Amenity That Even The Neighbors Can Enjoy (Feb 7)
- Advertising Age: 3-Minute Ad Age (video) (Jan 18)
- Next Great Thing: Wireless, WiMax and Mobile: 2008 and Beyond (Jan 18)
- NYConvergence: Follow Up from NY:MIEG Event — Wireless, Wimax & Mobile 2008 and Beyond: The Future of Communications (Jan 18)
- Gotham Gazette: Expanding Wi-Fi Beyond Manhattan (Jan 8)
Press Appearances — 2007
- Norwood News: Norwood Cafe Link In Bridging Digital Divide (Sep 20)
- Government Technology: International Summit for Community Wireless Networks (May 31)
- The Indypendent: Municipal Broadband Takes On The Internet Cartel (May 21)
- The Wall Street Journal Online: ISPs, Businesses and Even Cities Seek to Offer Cheap or Free Connections — Which Will Win? (Apr 30)
- Civil Defense Blog: Broadband Advisory Committee public hearing today (Mar 30)
- Wakeup Call: Radio Interview (Mar 27)
- The Villager: Wireless co.: We’re a latte cheaper than Starbucks (Mar 7)
Press Appearances — 2006
- New York Sun: The New Man in the City’s Tech Hub (Nov 15)
- IEEE Spectrum: Wi-Fi for the People (Nov. 1)
- New York Post: Net Loss in Parks (Oct 23)
- Bronx Times Reporter: Monroe installs wireless Internet (Oct 19)
- C|Net: New Yorkers: We’re geeks too (Oct 11)
- NJ Star Ledger: Elizabeth hoping wireless network energizes it into the 21st century (Oct 1)
- Washington Square News: City parks going wireless (Sept 6)
- New York Daily News: Students Spread Wi-fi (Jun 25)
- Gotham Gazette: Wireless Access (Jun 13)
- New York Times Editorial: Wi-Fi and the Cities (Jun 6)
- Technology Review: Wi-Fi Coming to Parks in New York City (May 17)
- New York Times: Deadline Set for Wireless Internet in Parks (May 16)
- New York Sun: New York Parks To Offer Free Web Access(May 16)
- Newsday: Wireless Internet access urged for NYC parks(May 16)
- New York Post: CENTRAL PK. TO BECOME A WEB SITE(May 16)
- WNBC: Techies Urge Wireless Web Access In NYC Park (May 16)
- WCBS: Wi-Fi Internet Access In NYC Parks? (May 16)
- SILive: Wireless Internet access urged for NYC parks (May 16)
- Spotlighting News: New York Central Park With WiFi (May 16)
- All Headline News: Deadline Set For Wireless Internet In Parks (May 16)
- New York Press: NEW YORK: NOT-SO-WIRED CITY (Apr 5)
- Gotham Gazette: Not Enough Wireless In NYC (Mar 6)
- Unstrung: Hotspot Invaders (Feb 16)
- Knowledge @ W.P. Carey: Cities Peg Wi-Fi as Next Must-Have Amenity (Feb 1)
- NY Times: Advocates of Wi-Fi in Cities Learn Art of Politics (Jan 19)
Press Appearances — 2005
- New Haven Advocate: Take My WiFi, Please pdf (Dec 1)
- ISP-Planet: Why It’s Important To Be Neutral (Nov 21)
- Benton Foundation: Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge pdf (Nov 4)
- CMP Tech Web: Non-Profit Brings Low-Cost Broadband to New Yorkers pdf (Nov 4)
- MuniWireless: NYCwireless launches Network Neutrality Broadband Challenge pdf (Nov 2)
- The Economist: Computer chips for “open-spectrum”” devices are a closed book pdf (Jan 6)
Press Appearances — 2004
- Prix ARS Electronica: Digital Communities Honorable Mention
- New York Times: Where Good Wi-Fi Makes Good Neighbors (Oct 21)
Press Appearances — 2003
- Unstrung: Time Warner Whacks Wi-Fiers (Sep 18)
- WiFi Planet: Announcement for Wireless Park Lab Days in City Hall Park (Sep 12)
- Linux Journal: Linux Makes Wi-Fi Happen in New York City (Sep 1)
- Reuters Television: Real Media Low, Real Media Medium, Real Media High (May 28)
Press Appearances — 2002
- New York Times: THE WI-FI BOOM; Out and About, and Online (Dec 12)
- Wall Street Journal: Wi-Fi Gives Cell Carriers Static (Nov 29)
- Unstrung: NOT AVAILABLE – Yankee’s HotSpot (Nov 27)
- New York Times: Walker in the Wireless City (Nov 24)
- New York Magazine: Top Five: Wireless Internet-Access Sites (Nov 11)
- USA Today: Wireless access becoming more convenient for consumers (Nov 6)
- Village Voice: The Best of New York 2002 (Oct 4)
- BBC: New Yorkers enjoy wireless web (Oct 1)
- Wired: Sky Dayton’s Long Road to Internet Nirvana (Oct 1)
- Time Out NY: Wireless for Less: Wireless Internet usage is a lifestyle, paying for it is a choice (Sep 12)
- Crain’s NY Business: Catching Waves: Hot spots spring up to offer high-speed internet access, but is there a profitable business model? (Sep 30)
- New York Sun: Leave the Wires Behind: From Bryant Park to the East Village Free Wireless Internet Access is on the Rise (Sep 10)
- Boston Globe: Hotspots: Free and for-profit net zones pop up everywhere (Sep 9)
- Investor’s Business Daily: Broadband Providers Begin to Crackdown on Subscribers Who Share Connections (Jul 25)
- @NY: Viewpoint: NYCwireless Keeps It Legit (Jul 12)
- New York Times: Escaping From Bryant Park But Staying Connected to the Web (Jul 3)
- BusinessWeek: A Wireless End Run Around ISPs (Jul 3)
- New York Times: A Dispute Over Wireless Networks (Jul 1)
- C|Net News.com: For IBM and Intel, wireless sizzles (Jun 26)
- Telephony: The Cheapest Thing in New York (Jun 3)
- Village Voice: The Tao of Low-Cost Wireless (May 20)
- Star-Ledger of Newark, NJ: Only in New York: Illicit Park Bench Web Surfing (May 15)
- BusinessWeek: You Say You Want A Wireless Revolution? (Apr 29)
- IEEE Times: Pesky Home Networks Trouble Cable Behemoths (Apr 4)
- New York 1 News: Businesses Hope Free, Wireless Internet Attracts Customers (Mar 21)
- Wireless Internet Magazine: Free Community Nets Sprouting Up (Mar 18)
- New York Times: TECHNOLOGY; Good (or Unwitting) Neighbors Make for Good Internet Access (Mar 4)
- Washington Monthly: The Broadband Militia (Mar 1)
- TechTV: Communal Broadband (Jan 1)
Press Appearances — 2001
- Only in New York: Look Ma, No Cords Being unwired is the logical progression of the portable PC lifestyle (Dec 31)
- MIT Technology Review: Unwiring the Web (Dec 1)
- PC Magazine: The People’s Wireless Web (Nov 27)
- Sunday London Times: Free ‘net? It’s Up to You (Nov 18)
- New York Times: Q & A; How to Mate Your Laptop With a Wireless Network (Nov 8)
- New York Daily News: In The Zone: Wireless areas around the city let you access the Internet for free (Oct 23)
- Newsday: Geeks Worldwide Unite to Wire Up Their Communities (Oct 14)
- New York Times: In Crisis Zone, a Wireless Patch (Oct 4)
- 80211Planet: Renegade WLANs: Parasitic or Free-Spirited Anarchistic? (Oct 3)
- Village Voice: High Speed, Freed: Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband to New York (Aug. 15)
- Associated Press: Digital activists want to share the Internet’s wealth — er, bandwidth (Aug 10)
- Silicon Alley Daily: Adventures in Wi-Fi: NYC Wireless to Bring 802.11b to the Masses (Jun 28)
- CNN Moneyline: Segment by Steve Young (Jun 8)
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