Personal Telco Press Covereage

PGE Park gets Free Wi-Fi Access http://www.joejava.com/pgeparkstrikeout.htm

Wi-Fi returns to Pioneer Square http://www.joejava.com/wifireturns.htm

July 2003 - Wall Street Journal (31 July) http://www.joejava.com/wsjjuly2003.htm

July 2003 - Wireless Sparks at PGE Park http://www.joejava.com/pgepark.htm

June 2003 - WebCriteria Pulls Plug http://www.joejava.com/webcriteria.htm

May 2003 - The Coming Hot Spot War http://www.joejava.com/comingwar.htm

April 2003 - Dark Horse 802.11g Link http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article.php/2193601

April 2003 - The Most Unwired City http://www.joejava.com/themostunwiredcity.htm

March 2003 - The Oregonian

• Ted Sickinger writes "Portland connects to top billing for wireless access". Done by the people who do the "Best Places to Live in America" for Money Magazine, PortlandOregon collects the "most wireless city in America" award. Apparently most of the thanks goes to PersonalTelco ... hooray! BR http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1046782677268070.xml

February 2003 - Smart Computing

• Tracy Baker writes "Wireless Network Worries", a fairly friendly discussion about community wireless networking and how ISP's feel about it. NigelBallard is quoted and NodeDb is mentioned. BR http://www.smartcomputing.com/editorial/article.asp?guid=kncoywri&article=articles/archive/l0902/19l02/19l02.asp

09 December 2002 - The Seattle Times

• Nancy Gohring writes "Wi-Fi spreading Internet access to the masses". A year in review about wireless. A brief mention of Personal Telco's scuffle with T-Mobile over the Pioneer Square node. BR http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/134592327_wifi09.html

19 November 2002 - USA Today

• Donna Rosato writes "Bringing free wireless access to the people". A nice article with coverage from NycWireless, AustinWireless and NigelBallard of PersonalTelco.BR http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2002-11-18-bonus-hotspots_x.htm

... apparent gap while Adam was away ...

20 August 2002 - Slashdot

• Fobbman writes "Starbucks Clashes With WiFi Hobbyists Over Airwaves". A follow up on the Oregonian article about the Tmobile and PioneerCourthouseSquare. Over all people were very supportive and a couple of the SpecialOps team made sure that things didn't get too skewed during discussion. BR http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/02/08/20/0431202.shtml

19 August 2002 - KGW News

• Joe Smith interviewed NigelBallard and DonPark for a two minute prime time news spot. More great publicity for the PioneerCourthouseSquare node. Clips are only in Windows Media format right now, MPEG should be coming soon. BR http://www.personaltelco.net/download/propaganda/kgw/kgw-august2002-256k.wmv

19 August 2002 - The Oregonian

• Jeffrey Kosseff and Eric Hand write "Wireless channel use sets up turf battle". Eric Hand happened to be at one our MonthlyMeetings and heard us discussing the problems we were having with the recently deployed T-Mobile/Starbucks AccessPoint conflicting with ours. It's a controversial but pretty friendly article. BR [http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_standard.xsl?/base/front_page/102975810817580.xml http://www.oregonlive.com]

9 August 2002 - EE Times

• Rick Merritt writes "Public 802.11 nets raise tech, business concerns" which has a brief mention of the list of WirelessCommunities we maintain.

16 July 2002 - Easystreet Idea Exchange Newsletter

• AdamShand writes "One laptop. One deck. One beer.". A silly little intro to wireless networking. BR http://www.easystreet.com/idea_exchg/internet.html

9 July 2002 - c|net news.com

• Ben Charny writes "Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi". A pretty friendly look at the situation with Time Warner and NycWireless. A quote from AdamShand appears at the end. BR

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3 Jully 2002 - Rhizome

• Brooke Singer writes "Where do you want to go today?". She pimps the SatelliteTruck as a "Temporary Telecommunication Autonomous Zones" to the art crowd in New York. Very cool. BR http://rhizome.org/

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

• Joe Smith 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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