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Product Description Various cities across the world are moving towards providing ubiquitous wireless connectivity and municipal wireless systems are being experimented with. The city of Pune in western India launched the Unwire Pune project promising to make the entire city wirefree by March 2007. The project being conceptualized by the city municipal corporation in partnership with Intel if successful would make Pune the first fully wireless city in India. The research in this book discusses the project in detail emphasising the realistic benefits of the project to the local population of the city alongside laying down the hindrances which the project could likely be faced with. Review Great! I still remember your municipal wifi article and your telecom track notes, that bore testimony to your expertise in telecom sector Prachi Shirur, Institute of Human Development, New Delhi, India From the Author In mid 2000s, many cities in the world including San Francisco, Pune, Portland and global players like Google, Intel, Earthlink and others started working on the idea of Municipal WiFi networks. These were citywide networks offering WiFi services throughout the city led by a publicprivate partnership model viewing wireless as a public infrastructure. The projects were led by the cities themselves alongside a private technology partners.This book was created as a part of a dissertation research in the University of Strathclyde in 200506 on the Municipal WiFi project led by the city of Pune in Western India. The book emphasizes on the sociopolitical issues that are raised with free or low cost universal access. The motivations, challenges and business case of the project are discussed. While the book focuses on a single city, it has universal appeal in terms of how other cities who are thinking about universal Internet access can structure their thoughts. From the Inside Flap Upasna KakrooMunicipal WiFi: Unwire Pune, an analysisPublic Private partnership model towards ubiquitous connectivityLAP Lambert Academic Publishing About the Author Upasna Kakroo is the Cofounder of an online branding and content marketing Startup, brandanew.co. Her previous experiences include, McKinsey & Co., Rocket Internet among others. Upasna has devoured urban culture, art by traveling in 30 countries, living in four and blogging for over 12 years. To get free technology and marketing insights drop an email to connect@brandanew.coUpasna has gone to school for her BS (engineering) in India, MS (telecom) in the UK and MBA (marketing) in Germany. She currently lives in Ann Arbor Michigan.
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