Telerama
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| Type of Company | Private |
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| Founded | 1991 |
| Headquarters | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Key people | Doug Luce, Founder, President, and CEO |
| Industry | Internet & Communications |
| Products | ISP |
| Website | www.telerama.com |
Telerama is an Internet service provider and technology company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1991 as the third ISP in world history.
Telerama launched its Wi-Fi network in Pittsburgh in 2001, comprising over 200 nodes. It concentrates access mainly in "coffee-house" style arrangements, at locations where people have a chance to sit and use their laptops.
In 2003, Telerama's Wi-Fi network started appearing at sites in the Pittsburgh Cultural District. In 2004 it started lighting up large buildings in downtown Pittsburgh.
Telerama's stated approach to municipal Wi-Fi access is somewhat unique. Eschewing the typical Mu-Fi concept of blanketing every square inch of a town area with signal, Telerama instead concentrates on specific locations, like coffee houses and apartments, where people will have the chance to sit down and use their laptops. Locations are usually services by a high-speed DSL line a Linux based site router, and a handful of WiFi antennae arranged to service seating areas of a location.
[edit] External links
- Telerama's web site
- Telerama unwires Cultural District
- One Oxford Centre becomes largest public wi-fi location Downtown
- Pittsburgh Gets 802.11
- Another Unwired City
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