EarthLink's latest win is in Milpitas: The 13 sq. mi. town will gain coverage over about half its area in the renovated downtown. When I was growing up in Fremont (East Bay), we used to joke that if you blinked you'd miss Milpitas, so small a section it occupied across the highway.
Interesting. I lived in Milpitas until last year, and there has been a Tropos-based network there for about three years. One of Tropos' early wins, which was used for municipal service.
The lamp-post APs were like Oases for me, which I could see, but was not permitted to access as a regular citizen. It would have been nice when the Excite/AT&T cable Internet meltdown left me offline for three days.
Is this Earthlink ISP just going to be an upgrade on the existing network, or an overlay network?