World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

[rwehapi2003]

Building a large, public WiFi infrastructure must not be an easy task. SF and Chicago recently scrapped the idea before it even got off the ground. Technical and economic hurdles could not be overcome from the sound of it.

The idea of going after an area like Mexico seems to make sense since wifi broadband has little or no competition from cable or DSL in the areas targeted. So if it is ripe for the picking, why haven't people been jumping to get 'er done?

The hardware was supposed to be pretty functional per the trials set up last year, but getting a working customer interface seems to be one of the problems per Mide's post on Mr. G. Why not use something like the Airpath solution adopted by Trimax in Naples just to get the system going and then eventually switch things over to the NMC EVDS system touted on the GTEM website once you got it working?

We still need some sort of confirmation that Hotzone is going to be a commercially viable, wireless solution. Non-functionality of NMC has delayed that process and we have yet to hear any sort of contract award from the CWID trials - although I think formal publication of results is to happen in the fall.

Maybe we will hear something about Trident Warrior '08 before the year is out now that planning has begun:

http://www.itmentor.com/tridentcalendar.htm

As a side note, I found this post from several weeks back. Do you think this poster has any relation to NMC?

http://forums.wi-fiplanet.com/showthread.php?t=8592