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By the end of 2007, general public access (excluding business subscribers) will be widely viewed as financially the weakest pillar in governments' business case for municipal wireless.
Once you get past the hoopla, legal skirmishes, policy debates and dueling business models, the ROI of municipal wireless networks turns on one thing - the applications that run on them. Visions of park-sitting, latte-sipping Web-surfing yuppies capture headlines, but mobile workforce applications, asset management and portals capture the gold.
In this report 10 local government executives present a wide array of mobile applications that muni networks will enable, and their impact on government operations. Reading these individuals' comments may lead you to re-think some of your assumptions regarding business models, cost justification and which departments can benefit.
Snapshot Participants
This month's Snapshot interviews 12 cities, counties and vendors involved with municipal wireless projects. Cities and counties represented are:
| Boston, MA | Buffalo, MN |
| Concord, CA | Corpus Christi, TX |
| Dublin, OH | Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada |
| Macomb Co, MI | Milpitas, CA |
| Providence, RI | Tucson, AZ |
Nortel and Intel are sponsors of this report and they are also interviewed.
Governments are seeing the light in the fields
The short- or long-term benefits of mobile workforce applications (financial and intangible) can justify much of the network building cost and influence who pays for it.
Public safety and public works are vitally important and may comprise the two largest segments of your mobile workforce. But the other departments collectively have significant operating costs that can be reduced, and some of these departments influence revenue generation.
In this report the applications discussed, in addition to the "usual suspects," are those for:
Sponsored by:
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www.nortel.com/muniwireless |
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www.intel.ca |
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