Press Releases

• 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 — 2008

• 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

• 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) NYCwireless has sent cease and desist letters to iNYCwireless for name infringement
• 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 2002
• Time Out NY: Wireless for Less: Wireless Internet usage is a lifestyle, paying for it is a choice (Sep 12)
• Boston Globe: Hotspots: Free and for-profit net zones pop up everywhere (09/09/02)
• 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)
• 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)