We are pleased to bring you the seventeenth regular installment of The Wireless Report Podcast. We'll be discussing the citywide WiFi situation in Chicago and why Mike and I think that the Chicago folks are really doing things right so far in the Windy City's RFP for a citywide WiFi network. Kudos to them on the detail request and the way in which they have laid out the network they want to build.Additionally, we'll take about the fight from the FCC to take control of wireless bill regulation for the states -- but the states want to control the regulatory process for customers' wireless bills. We'll wrap up the podcast talking about the new FTC document designed to help smaller communities navigate the political obstacles when it comes time to considering a citywide WiFi network.
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Mike Sciannamea and Brian White
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1:05:43 length, 30.1MB size, MP3 format (64kbps)
2:45 We start off the podcast with a decent talk about wireless bill regulation, and who should regulate this -- the FCC or the individual states. There are needs that the states need to keep control of regardless if the national wireless carriers want a national standards body to regulate wireless billing practices.
31:20 Chicago's Request For Proposal (RFP) for a citywide WiFi network, and how that city is -- at this time -- doing things very right in the way it's going about collecting vendors and bids for the network build as well as paying attention to timelines and detail without the useless marketing fluff that just clogs the process. Very interesting stuff here, and other cities may soon be following Chicago's lead here in the near future.
50:35 We talk about a neat FTC "decision tree" document released by the federal agency that is meant to assist cities in designing and considering citywide WiFi networks with all the political considerations that come along with that -- things that many smaller municipalities don't sometimes consider until it is too late.
1:02 Wrap-up and conclusion
