Wireless Silicon Valley

There is a lot of activity in my neck of the woods regarding ubiquitous wireless access. In fact, the organization Joint Venture Silicon Valley has an initiative regarding just such an idea,  called “Wireless Silicon Valley”. Their vision – “to bring ubiquitous broadband wireless Internet access to residents and businesses throughout Silicon Valley” according to Brian Moura, Assistant City Manager, City of San C"arlos, Smart Valley board of directors, Chairman of SAMCAT.

Not free, the concept is to bring low cost, high speed access across the Valley allowing for informational access, outdoors, that flows across city and service boundaries. Predicted users who will benefit fall into four primary areas of mobile users:

On my part, I believe that with Internet access moving from laptops to smaller, more portable devices such as PDAs and multi-use phones the desire to read text beyond text messaging is continuing to grow. And as more and more companies understand that allowing employees to work anywhere is good business model, the demand will only increase.

More details on the Joint Venture initiative – Wireless Silicon Valley