Municipal Wireless Bids in 2005 and 2006: s, RFIs and RFQs status as of 29 January 2006 Type Name State Status Vendor Use Comments City Phoenix AZ Awarded Calence Traffic management; other municipal s for wireless last mile proof of concept; new for downtown (public access and muni to be issued soon) City Tempe AZ Awarded NeoReach ; municipal operational City Chandler AZ Awarded NeoReach ; municipal Used the Tempe City Anaheim CA Awarded Earthlink City Sacramento CA Awarded NeoReach City Galt CA Awarded Softcom City Philadelphia PA Awarded Earthlink ; municipal City Addison TX Awarded Red Moon Broadband City South Lake TX Awarded Red Moon Broadband City Farmers Branch TX Awarded NeoReach City Corpus Christi TX Awarded Northrop-Grumman ; automated meter reading; public and other muni apps City Madison WI Awarded Cellnet City Waterloo Ontario Awarded Atria Networks Contract value $23 million Page 1 of 5
County Ottawa MI Awarded? City Kutztown PA Awarded Nortel, CDWG, Proxim City Charleston SC Awarded Widespread Access and Evening Post Publishing Co Bid winnders will invest $500,000 City Minneapolis MN Finalists City Miami Beach FL Finalists City Portland OR Finalists City Plano TX Finalists City Orlando FL issued, bid closed; responses under County Washtenaw MI issued; responses due on 7 March 2006 Earthlink; US Internet IBM; Wireless Facilities Earthlink; MobilePro, MetroFi, US Internet, VeriLAN, Windfield Wireless Invisiwire, MetroFi, MobilePro, Spotfone ; municipal ; municipal (i.e. public transport, schools) Municipal includes public Respondents: Proximiti Communications, Bright Ho Networks, Spotfone, Kosmo Systems- Mastec, American Muni-Comm LLC Initially issued RFI, got 23 responses; only RFI respondents can bid on Page 2 of 5
City Pasadena CA issued, deadline 9 Feb 2006 ; municipal City San Francisco CA issued, deadline 21 Feb 2006 City Denver CO issued, bid closed; under City San Jose CA issued, deadline 30 City Hartford CT RFI issued, bid closed 10 County Macomb MI issued, deadline 30 City Traverse City MI issued, bid closed 29 July 2005 City Wilkes-Barre PA issued, bid closed City St. Louis Park MN issued, bid closed on 9 Negotiating with First Mile Wireless for equipment; and Unplugged Cities for partnership Public Downtown hotzone; public access and traffic control ; municipal Previously issued RFI Got 4 bids for wireless equipment; 11 bids for partnership Page 3 of 5
City Rome GA issued, Downtown hotzone bid closed 15 Dec 2005 City Brookline MA issued, bid closed 26 ; municipal for turnkey solution City Grand Rapids MI issued 27 ; deadline 4 April 2006 City New Orleans LA to be issued City New Haven CT to be issued soon City Diamond Bar CA Considering City Aurora IL Considering City Chicago IL Considering City Houston TX Considering County Snohomish WA Issued RFQ; bids under Will select vendor on 15 June 2006 Current network s Tropos, Pronto, Motorola; Skytel set up FEMA disaster communications ; municipal, public ; public ; municipal including public Wants to cover entire city (180 sq mi) Page 4 of 5
County Sandoval NM Issued feasibility study Telemedicine, public, public access, elearning Wants network with enough bandwidth for video, VOIP, distance learning City Alpharetta GA Issued RFQ for feasibility study for a consultant ; municipal To explore possibility of multiple- network [Note: Thanks to Jean Templin of Interconnect Product, Inc. for helping me put together this list] Page 5 of 5