Personal Telco Press Covereage

1 July 2002 - PC Magazine

• RobFlickenger writes "Broadband Block Party". A great article by one of our own! Rob gives a general overview of what community networking is doing and what it hopes to do in the future. Good stuff. BR http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,31768,00.asp

21 June 2002 - Weekly Planet

• Francis X. Gilpin and Scott Harrell write "URL, Interrupted". A story about the up and coming wireless with lots of talk about how the Telco's are anti-competitive. NigelBallard is one of their quoted sources. BR http://www.weeklyplanet.com/current/cover.html

17 June 2002 - Forbes

• Arik Hesseldahl writes "Wi-Fi Anyone?" a general blurb about WiFi and public access providers. A brief mention of PersonalTelco as the maintainers of the list of public communities.

14 June 2002 - Portland Business Journal

• AlizaEarnshaw writes "Personal Telco goes mobile with its expansion strategy". A great article which covers the recent purchase of our SatelliteTruck as well as quotes from local businesses who sponsor nodes. BR http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/06/17/story4.html

02 June 2002 - Portland Business Tribune

• Andy Giegerich writes "Internet service has cool scruples". A nice article focusing on the partnership between EasyStreet and PersonalTelco. BR http://www.portlandtribune.com/archview.cgi?id=11798

16 May 2002 - KINK FM 102

• Coverage of the new South Park Blocks node hosted by Oak Tree Publishing. Details aren't available at this time.

15 May 2002 - 80211-Planet.com

• EdSutherland writes "Is Wi-Fi Getting Too Crowded?" He brings up some interesting points on 2.4Ghz ISM band being overloaded. NigelBallard is quoted at the end. BR http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article/0%2c%2c1781_1122641%2c00.html

07 May 2002 - Portland Business Journal

• AlizaEarnshaw writes "Personal Telco now in South Park Blocks". Another lovely piece from Aliza covering the emergence of the new South Park Blocks node. BR http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/05/06/daily22.html

19 April 2002 - Slashdot and The Guardian

• Michael writes "Community Wireless Networks in the UK". Slashdot points to a Guardian article in which PersonalTelco and FreeNetworks get a brief mention. BR http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/19/2240248 BR http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,685818,00.html

26 March 2002 - KGW TV

• JoeSmith interviewed AdamShand, AlHooton, NigelBallard, DonPark and LucasSheehan for a 1.5 minute piece on the 6:00PM news. Overall a very nice piece. BR http://www.personaltelco.net/download/propaganda/kgw/kgw-preview-march2002.mpg BR http://www.personaltelco.net/download/propaganda/kgw/kgw-main-march2002.mpg

11 March 2002 - Personal Telco Unwires First Hostel with help from Intel

• NigelBallard writes "This is the first hostel in the USA, possibly the world to have free high-speed broadband wireless". BR See HawthorneHostelPressRelease

08 March 2002 - Portland Business Journal

• AlizaEarnshaw writes "Combine outdoors and cyberspace downtown". A very nice little plug for us all. Great stuff, they think we're cool! BR [http://portland.bizjournals.com/portland/stories/2002/03/11/newscolumn2.html http://portland.bizjournals.com/]

March 2002 - alt.portland.or.us

• chezxx writes "Their site will tell you all you need to know. And man, they have some great technical links on all things open source!" Cool, a listing in the alternative guide to Portland! BR http://alt.portland.or.us/consume/cyber.shtml

March 2002 - Red Herring

• Christopher Locke writes "Broadbanding Together". This is a great article, there are some minor technical inaccuracies but the overall mentality of article is very positive and supportive. Great stuff. BR http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/0307/2145.html

26 February 2002 - Radio Interview on KXL (750 AM)

• BrianWestbrook interviewed AdamShand live and on the air from the Pioneer Courthouse Square node at 7:40AM. The interview was about five minutes long and was great coverage during the morning commute!

19 February 2002 - The Oregonian

• Jeffrey Kosseff writes "Personal Telco sets up free Net access". It's nice to finally get some press in the Oregonian but I (AdamShand) haven't been quoted that out of context for quite a while and the StealingBandwidth refrain is getting particularly tired, especially given that this was about the PioneerSquareNode which is powered by business T1's.BR [http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/business/10141233403272895.xml http://www.oregonlive.com/]

February 2002 - Portland Business Journal

• AlizaEarnshaw writes "'Geeks' unite in a quest to make wireless world". AdamShand got his mug on the front page and it's also a pretty nice article about what's going on in Portland with PersonalTelco. There are mentions of EasyStreet's Rich Bader helping out and supporting the project.BR http://portland.bcentral.com/portland/stories/2002/02/04/story3.html

January 2002 - Government Technology

• John Marcotte writes "Guerrilla Radio", an interview with Brewster Kahle of SfLan and AdamShand about barriers to community network progress.BR [http://www.govtech.net/magazine/sup_story.phtml?magid=1505000000000021&id=3030000000004263&issue=1:2002 http://www.govtech.net/]

December 2001 - MIT Technology Review

• Erika Jonietz writes "Unwiring the Web" a nice write up of community networkings mainly focusing on NycWireless though NigelBallard and PersonalTelco are mentioned. You can read a scanned copy of the article (page [http://www.personaltelco.net/images/MIT1.jpg 1], [http://www.personaltelco.net/images/MIT2.jpg 2] and [http://www.personaltelco.net/images/MIT3.jpg 3]). BR http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/dec01/innovation1.asp

22 October 2001 - The Toronto Star

• Tyler Hamilton writes "Wireless `Robin Hood' espouses free online access". A decent write up of TawNag with a nice mention of PersonalTelco and other WirelessCommunities. It's a shame yet another reporter jumps on the sensasionalistic bandwagon though.BR [http://www.torontostar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=1003701686251 http://www.torontostar.com/]

October 2001 - Broadband Wireless Online

• Christopher Ambrosini writes "Seeds of Change", a general overview of what community networks are about and the problems they face. A brief mention of PersonalTelco as a group which "aspires to organize the collectives and provide information to others".BR http://www.shorecliffcommunications.com/magazine/volume.asp?vol=21&story=207

October 2001 - Discover Magazine

• "The Future of Wireless", a panel of "wireless visionaries" talk about the future of the Internet and eireless connectivity. The full version isn't available online, just a list of panelists and a some blurbage..BR http://www.discover.com/oct_01/gthere.html?article=featwireless.html

04 September 2001 - Associated Press

• Jim Krane writes "Digital activists want to share the Internet's wealth -- er, bandwidth" the main point of this article seems to be fear mongering in the business world that we're "stealing bandwidth" and the ISP's and Telco's aren't gonna like that.BR http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/business/37567_wireless04.shtml

02 September 2001 - The Daytona Beach News-Journal

• "Spare some bandwidth? Free wireless Internet movement shares the wealth" is another nice write up about community networks.BR http://www.news-journalonline.com/2001/Sep/2/STECH2.htm

28 August 2001 - Gannett News Service

• Greg Wright writes "Bootleggers bring broadband to some neighborhoods" for the Gannett News Service, which has papers all over the country. Covers DanRichardson and the PlayDay.BR http://www.gannettonline.com/e/trends/11000064.html

16 August 2001 - Newsbytes

• Dick Kelsey writes "WiFi Spawns Free Net Access", AdamShand gets yet more press time in this article! Way to go!BR http://www.newsbytes.com/news/01/169108.html

15 August 2001 - Slashdot

• Timothy posts "A Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband In New York" which is pointing to the recent Village Voice article. There some fairly supportive and interesting comments.BR http://slashdot.org/articles/01/08/15/0150255.shtml

15 August 2001 - The Village Voice

• Peter Meyers writes "High Speed, Freed: Motley Crew Beams No-Cost Broadband to New York". This is mainly about NycWireless, but AdamShand does get mentioned towards the end.BR http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0133/meyers.php

08 August 2001 - Salon

• George Kelly writes "Boomeranged by Ricochet" and talks about Metricom going bust and no longer being able to get his wireless internet fix. PdxWireless is Mentioned as an alternative!BR http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/08/ricochet/index.html

07 August 2001 - The Portland Tribune

• Andy Giegerich writes "From Wire to Wire(less)". We got front page of the business section, a picture and everything! Nice to finally get some local press.BR http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/PortlandTribuneArticle

August 2001 - Metropolis Magazine

• Andrew Blum writes "Wireless activists bring the battle over public space to the airwaves. ". A nice article about the grass roots nature of community networking.BR http://www.metropolismag.com/html/content_0801/ob/ob05.html

19 July 2001 - The Seattle Weekly

• GlennFleishman writes "The Revolution May Be Wireless". Glenn came down to Portland for the WirelessSummit and then went back home and wrote about it.BR http://www.seattleweekly.com/features/0129/tech-fleishman.shtml

12 June 2001 - Tech TV

• Tim Pozar of BaWug talks about how "Neighborhood Area Networks" are changing (and will change) the way people connect to the Internet.BR http://www.techtv.com/print/story/0,23102,3332231,00.html

15 May 2001 - Wikipedia

• We're list in in wikipedia, another really cool wiki project!BR http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Personal_Telco

26 March 2001 - Geek News

• Xix posts a bit what PersonalTelco is up to.BR http://www.geeknews.net/article.php?sid=855

29 January 2001 - Slashdot

• BrucePotter posted "Where's Your Nearest Wireless Access Point". We got a nice plug as well as SeattleWireless.BR http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/29/148206.shtml

January 2001 - Computer Bits

• SamChurchill wrote "Community LANS" and mentioned PDXWireless.org.BR http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2001/0100/communitylan.html

13 December 2000 - Security Geeks

• BrucePotter writes "As the Wireless World Turns". Our first press!BR http://securitygeeks.shmoo.com/article.php?story=2000121306222979

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