Personal Telco Press Covereage
20 August 2002 - Slashdot "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 - 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 9 August 2002 - EE Times
"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
"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
"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 3 Jully 2002 - Rhizome
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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 07 May 2002 - Portland Business Journal
"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
"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 11 March 2002 - Personal Telco Unwires First Hostel with help from Intel
"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
"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
"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) 19 February 2002 - The Oregonian
"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
"'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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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 16 August 2001 - Newsbytes
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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 26 March 2001 - Geek News 29 January 2001 - Slashdot
"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
"Community LANS" and mentioned PDXWireless.org.BR http://www.computerbits.com/archive/2001/0100/communitylan.html 13 December 2000 - Security Geeks
"As the Wireless World Turns". Our first press!BR http://securitygeeks.shmoo.com/article.php?story=2000121306222979
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