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Dianah Neff, Chief Information Officer of the City of Philadelphia, has appeared several times previously on Broadband Wireless Access World, on September 3, 2004, November 30, 2004, February 9, 2005, and in a remotely-conducted video interview on March 22, 2005.

All of these appearances have involved discussions of the City of Philadelphia's plan to facilitate universal, ubiquitous broadband wireless connectivity within its city limits.

Today, along with Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street, Ms. Neff formally announced the creation of a non-profit corporation to implement this plan.

You can listen to an audio interview with Dianah Neff discussing the City of Philadelphia's plans for a city-wide roll-out of Wi-Fi access within its boundaries by clicking here.

You can listen to a summary of this plan by Ms. Neff and her answering media questions about it in audio conference record earlier today by clicking here.

You can listen to Ms. Neff answering a question from this reporter at the end of the audio conference about the impact of Philadelphia's new Wi-Fi plan on telecommuting by clicking here.

To access the web site of the Wireless Philadelphia Executive Committee, the group that put together the plan for the City of Philadelphia's municipal broadband wireless network, click here.

To visit the new web site of the Wireless Philadelphia™ Non-Profit Corporation, click here.

To access the Wireless Philadelphia Non-Profit Corporation's RFP for building out the City of Philadelphia's pioneering new municipal broadband Wi-Fi network, click here.

To see and hear this reporter calling for a similar program for the non-existent Valley City three years ago during the 2002 Secession Election in the City of Los Angeles, click here.