Rose Cantine

When I started charging vendors for advertising on Muniwireless, which by the middle of 2005 had become the online portal for news about municipal wireless broadband projects, I began running into potential advertisers who wanted me to say nice things about them in my blog posts. This is common in the publishing industry, I found [...]

By May 2004, I was writing twice as many articles as in January 2004 and better yet, people were sending news reports directly to me. Muniwireless.com was generating a lot of interest not just among city and county officials, but also among equipment vendors.
By the time I released my first anniversary report, I realized there [...]

During the first year of its existence, Muniwireless.com made no money. Because there were few cities setting up Wi-Fi hotzones and hardly any were deploying municipal Wi-Fi networks, posting was light. I would write three to four articles a week, but as the year went by, the number started to rise because more cities were [...]

I started Muniwireless.com in June 2003 as a blog. The purpose was to aggregate information about city Wi-Fi projects (mostly hotzones) around the world. Four years later, Muniwireless has turned into a vertically integrated media company with a quarterly magazine, web seminars, conferences in the US, Europe and Asia. How did this happen?

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