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Jhartmich
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Post Number: 70
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Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 11:18 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

What's the latest? I haven't heard about it much lately.
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Steelworker
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Posted on Wednesday, July 25, 2007 - 11:26 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

at least we will have oakland county
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Jyogi
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Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 12:14 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

When will we have Oakland County?
I have heard it was supposed to be in areas over a year ago and its still not in their pilot areas (Rochester Hills)
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Cgunn
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Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 12:31 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's not in Farmington either.
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Pjazz
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Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 12:56 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

From the paper and tv they act like Oakland wireless is working flawlessly all over.
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Redvetred
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Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 1:40 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's in Royal Oak but very slow and very unreliable but we don't have it in northern Oakland County at all. Also, don't have AT&T high-speed Internet and TV either. Comcast is it. Scary !!!
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E_hemingway
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Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 11:29 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Oakland County:
Wireless Oakland looks to finish first phase of project this month

http://www.metromodemedia.com/ devnews/wirelessOak12.aspx

Macomb County:
Mt. Clemens gets Wi-Fi service up and running for downtown

http://www.metromodemedia.com/ devnews/MtClemensWiFi0027.aspx

Washtenaw County:
Wireless Washtenaw completes pilot phase, county to go wireless by year's end

http://www.metromodemedia.com/ devnews/wirelesswash13.aspx

Livingston County:
Livingston Co. eyes free wireless access

http://www.detnews.com/apps/pb cs.dll/article?AID=/20070724/M ETRO04/707240363/1015

Couldn't find anything on Detroit.
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Lmichigan
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Posted on Thursday, July 26, 2007 - 11:43 pm:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Not in the region, but the latest area in Michigan to get WiFi is the downtown of my city, Lansing:

http://www.lansingstatejournal .com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID =2007707240310
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Dustin89
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Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 12:05 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

It's bordering on a best-kept secret, but Wireless Oakland is a failure on many levels. Only a few small areas-downtown Pontiac within the loop, for example, and I believe the Somerset Mall area in Troy are up and running. This was a make-L. Brooks-look-good project and he is taking some heat from conservatives on this one for involving govt. in something that would already be done if it had been done by the private sector. I was speaking with a politician friend of Patterson's a few weeks ago, a real conservative guy, and he got very angry when I suggested it was a failing project. It's ironic that conservative L. Brooks brought in government when it was unecessary and botched an important project, and is not taking much heat for it because of the undying love Oakland County-ers have for him. If you do a little research online, you will find many government wi-fi projects are failures and run into numerous slowdowns. I'm anything but conservative, but that doesn't prevent me from saying that this is a clear case of govt. stepping in when private enterprise could've done it better.
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Texorama
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Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 12:14 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

Washtenaw's seems to be failing, too. The AA Snooze did an article the other day basically saying it's stalled (http://tinyurl.com/29ef8m ), although they insist it will get done. Downtown AA works OK, although you have to be either outside or very near a window to get the signal. Actually downtown Detroit, where Campus Martius, the riverfront, and several other areas have public signals, seems to be doing better than any of these wealthier areas--seems as though the city could trumpet that a bit.
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Boshna
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Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 6:29 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

The fact that we have free wireless in CM and other downtown venues kicks ass. There is nothing like that here in German cities. Most everything here is T-Mobile and costs 8€/hour.
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Ferntruth
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Posted on Friday, July 27, 2007 - 7:41 am:   Edit PostDelete Post   Move Post (Moderator/Admin Only)

quote:
"is not taking much heat for it because of the undying love Oakland County-ers have for him"


Not ALL of us, Dustin =)

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