US Internet Scores Win In Minn.(Minnesota)(Brief article)
Multichannel News, September, 2006
By Karen Brown After an extended technology bake-off, US Internet has beaten out EarthLink Inc. for a contract to build and operate a mesh Wi-Fi network for the city of Minneapolis. US Internet and its partner, mesh Wi-Fi gear provider BelAir Networks, will now build and deploy a network covering the city's 54-square-mile area -- one of the largest metro Wi-Fi network deployments yet -- at a cost of about $25 million.
The contract was awarded after a test competition, in which EarthLink and US Internet each built a network in a 1-mile-square area and city officials evaluated the results. "US Internet offered the best proposal, and we were very pleased with the performance of their pilot network and the BelAir Networks technology," said...
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