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Impressions on Muni Wireless

It's Day Two, waiting for the Main Session to begin at 9:00 am. First impressions - well attended, one thing that stands out from last year - really stands out - many of the city staff I met last night have more sophistication, and they have money and budgets for their projects. We couldn't say this a year ago.

It appears we're moving out of the investigative stage, at least for some of these cities, into the active stage - the question last night had to do with head-scratching, with city officials wondering how they can best start their project, how to spend the money they have budgeted.

The general mood among the industry cognoscenti, and that was a fun part of yesterday evening, is that things are more and more real.

One question is the availability of expertise: with so many projects about to happen, where will the talent come from to guide these projects?

And another one - smaller towns getting together to collaborate and make their projects larger, and thus, more attractive to a private partner.

Session is about to start, that is all for now!

Posted on March 05, 2007 at 08:54 AM

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