E-Path Communications gets Trenton, NJ, contract as sole bidder for city Wi-Fi network: E-Path, as you'll recall is also on the hook to build out (with help from two larger partners) two counties in Long Island, Nassau and Suffolk. The relatively young firm has now also agreed to build both city-only and public-access networks for Trenton, NJ, entirely at the company's expense. The company is quoted as saying they'll sell services to the city to recoup their investment; in other municipalities, cities are fronting some or much of the cost of public-safety oriented networks given that municipalities are the only legal customers of such networks.
E-Path is the last of an otherwise dead breed of Wi-Fi firms willing to front bills, wait for fees to come in, and talk about sub-40-node-per-sq-mi networks (they say 30 to 40 in this article).