Friday, April 2, 2010

Look out Time Warner, Verizon: Bronx business offers buildings free WiFi

clipped from www.nydailynews.com

Look out Time Warner, Verizon: Bronx business offers buildings free WiFi

Doug Frazier (r.) and partner Stuart Reid in Urban Telephone and Video office in South Bronx.

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Doug Frazier (r.) and partner Stuart Reid in Urban Telephone and Video office in South Bronx.

Meet Time Warner and Verizon's worst nightmare.

Ever dreamed of free broadband Internet for your home? Or of phone and television service that doesn't burn a hole in your pocket each month?

How about a free video surveillance camera to deter crime on your block or building?

All that is slowly becoming real for thousands of low-income tenants and small businesses in one of New York's poorest neighborhood, the South Bronx.

It's called Home Networking Services, a wireless broadband network the South Bronx Overall Economic Development Corporation (SoBRO) has been quietly erecting for the past few years in a joint venture with a small minority-owned firm called Urban Telephone and Video.

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