Sprint Offshoot Tries Muni Wi-Fi. More and more incumbent broadband providers are accepting that citywide wireless networks are not going away.

Remember when cable and phone companies with a broadband business to protect said municipal Wi-Fi was too expensive, doomed and/or foolish? Those days may officially be over. The Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article_email/article_print/SB114282253898102708-lMyQjAxMDE2NDIyMDgyMjAyWj.html covered this fact just this week, running down a number of the deals that former anti-muni-Wi-Fi companies like Verizon and Time Warner are launching to test out the service themselves.

The latest comes from Sprint Nextel’s http://www.sprint.com/ local communication company, which later this year will be rolled out as a brand new business called Embarq (a move announced when the Sprint & Nextel merger http://www.internetnews.com/wireless/article.php/3527306 went through last year). They’ve set up a couple of one square mile trial networks in the city of Henderson, Nevada, a suburb of Las Vegas, and as such one of the fastest growing cities in the United States.

By Eric Griffith

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