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HarborLink Network News & Events
April
8, 2005
from the April
8, 2005 edition of The Dayton
Daily News
Citywide wireless network in
works
Square mile downtown
will be first 'hot zone'
By
Timothy R. Gaffney
Dayton Daily News
DAYTON | Trees are
budding, and so is Dayton's
free wireless computer
network.
Roaming laptop computer
users might pick up a signal
now and then in the downtown
area as HarborLink Network
LLC tests the system.
HarborLink is setting up the
network in partnership with
the city of Dayton and the
Dayton Daily News,
which will provide news,
information and advertising
from its DaytonDailyNews.com
Internet site.
"As the region's top local
Web site,
DaytonDailyNews.com is a
natural partner for this
effort. Users of the
Internet demand top-notch
information, and that's what
we provide," said Kevin
Riley, general manager of
online operations for the
Dayton Daily News and
Cox Ohio Publishing.
The partners say it will be
the nation's first
public-private partnership
to offer a free wireless
Internet connection,
sponsored by advertising.
Ultimately to be citywide,
the project's first phase is
to turn downtown into a
one-square-mile "hot zone."
The area should include
RiverScape, Fifth-Third
Field, Sinclair Community
College and the Oregon
District.
"We're getting very close
and we're making good
progress," HarborLink
President Rick Tangeman said
Thursday.
The Dayton Microcomputer
Association has scheduled a
Wireless Downtown Dayton
Days event for April 29 to
30 to promote awareness of
the service.
DMA volunteers will show
individuals with
wireless-equipped laptop
computers or handheld PDAs
how to connect to the
network, according to the
DMA Web site
wirelessdaytondays.org. |
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