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The Michigan City Economic Development Corporation’s Technology Committee has announced that a Memorandum of Understanding has been signed by NetNitco, The City of Michigan City Board of Works, and the Michigan City Economic Development Corporation to set up free wireless internet access to the downtown Franklin Street Corridor and the marina.
The Wi-Fi project will enable visitors to the downtown and marina to conduct messaging and use the internet. Business representatives can telecommute or visit the project area and access web-based data and email accounts in order to conduct their operations. “Imagine various business people communicating with clients and Chicago offices, or conducting meetings at their boat or favorite downtown coffee shop”, said Mayor Chuck Oberlie. “Tourists will be able to surf the net in between visiting some of our prime attractions and development areas—at no cost to them.”
NetNITCO’s free wireless service will cover the Downtown Franklin Street area from 11th Street on to 4th Street with one megabit of Bandwidth. This will be made possible by utilizing city infrastructure such as light poles, buildings, traffic signals for the installation of the necessary equipment. The service will cover 90% of the project area outside, and most external wall rooms of buildings. The coverage will blanket the area, so you will be able to access the internet almost anywhere in the downtown area. The installation of the necessary equipment is scheduled to start in the first quarter of 2007.
Thomas Edwards, Chairman of the Michigan City Economic Development Corporation notes that “Having wireless internet access as part of the downtown infrastructure makes Michigan City a very attractive location for businesses who are either looking to expand or relocate. Making this a reality was a tremendous collaborative effort on the part of the City, the Michigan City Area Schools, the Chamber of Commerce, NetNitco and the MCEDC. All of the people involved in this project deserve our gratitude.”
“NetNITCO currently serves thousands of customers with wireless broadband, DSL access in Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Jasper, and Newton counties. We’re excited about working in a collaborative effort with the MCEDC, The Michigan City Area Chamber of Commerce, the City of Michigan City, and NIPSCO on this much larger WiFi project,” says Jim Hallmen, NetNITCO’s Wireless Engineer and supervisor in charge of the WiFi project.
The project was designed by the Michigan City Economic Development Corporation Technology Committee and consultant Infocomm and developed in conjunction with NetNitco. The committee is comprised of city, business, technical and educational leaders in the community including Tim Bietry from the Chamber of Commerce, Jeff Jones of Purdue University North Central, Bill Phelps from the City of Michigan City, Kevin Kieft of the Michigan City Economic Development Corporation, Al Walus of the Sanitary District, Kevin McGuire from the Michigan City Area Schools, and John Moore of Dage-MTI.
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