Unwired Cities
Category: Internet...
Posted Thursday, June 09, 2005 at 04:01 PM [GMT-6]

Intel has released its third annual list of "Top 100 Unwired Cities and Regions in America," purporting to show which metropolitan areas have the widest wireless internet access (paid or unpaid). For the third consecutive year, Midland didn't make the list. Texas was fairly well represented, as follows:

  1. Austin/San Marcos
  2. Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington
  3. Houston
  4. San Antonio
  5. El Paso
  6. McAllen/Edinburg/Mission

If the Midland Economic Development Corporation wants to truly start putting Midland on the map, it would do well to address this infrastructure issue. I mean, anytime we get beat by McAllen-Edinburg-Mission (or El Paso, for that matter) in a tech-related area, there's something wrong with the picture.

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anytime we get beat by McAllen-Edinburg-Mission or El Paso

No kiddin'.

A couple of years ago after we at EGL Resources bought the 12 story, Empire Plaza building downtown. I tried to interest a local wireless company in putting transmitters on top of the building and shooting a wireless signal to my neighborhood to establish a NAN, my house being about one mile as the broadband flies from the building rooftop. There were economic issues involved of course, but generally not much interest in the idea.

Posted by: Wallace-Midland, Texas at June 9, 2005 05:17 PM
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