ChiFi
ChiFi is the collaborative project of several Chicago based organizations to promote a community wireless network to serve the city and its constituents. The members of ChiFi believe that community wireless networks and municipal wireless projects offer an inexpensive solution to widely deploy broadband access to urban and suburban neighborhoods, small towns, cities, last mile connectivity and low-income areas. This web site is provided as a free community resource. If you would like to contribute, please obtain a login id / password by clicking on the join link, then feel free to login and sumbit your comments.
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The City of Chicago has released an RFP calling for proposals to build a citywide wifi network. To view a summary of this RFP as well as a link to a downloadable pdf version visit our blog below or click here. Leave a comment about the RFP by clicking on add comment at the bottom of the post.
A Pre-Proposal Conference will be held Wednesday, October 11, 2006 from 10:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. in Conference Room D on the 5th floor of the DePaul Center located at 333 S. State Street in Chicago IL.
City of Chicago Community Wireless Broadband Network RFP schedule
Date of Issue of RFP Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Pre-Proposal Conference Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Written Questions from Respondent Due Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Responses to Questions Due to Respondent Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Proposals Due Tuesday, January 2, 2007
We are currently in the process of migrating our mailing list to the ChiFi.net domain. Please take notice. We will be announcing new mailing lists, newsletter subscriptions, and mail-ins.
You can find our currently active mailing list here:
https://mail.prairienet.org/mailman/listinfo/chicomwi
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