background to this interview with Tony Esfandiari

When this reporter ran for Mayor of the never-authorized Valley City, he advocated universal broadband (wireless) access for the new city, which would have included that part of the City of Los Angeles know as Van Nuys.

Coverage of the candidate's then-ignored proposal for bringing more and better e-government, business development, less traffic and improved education to the once-flourishing San Fernando Valley through universal access to broadband wireless Internet connectivity can be seen in a video clip from now-acquired TechTV in which he advocated that policy.

More recently, in his role as producer-host of Etopia Media's Broadband Wireless Access World, the former candidate interviewed Dianah Neff, CIO of the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, about the deployment in that city (whose population is approximately the same as that of the San Fernando Valley) of universal broadband wireless Internet access.

Of related interest is an interview he also conducted with Patrick Leary, Alvarion's Assistant Vice President of Marketing and Chief Evangelist, discussing an experiment his company ran earlier this year in Houston County, Georgia to provide the entire county with broadband wireless Internet access using the 802.16 protocol.

You can read more about that test, and about related experiments involving community-based wireless broadband access, by clicking here.

Aiirmesh, the company mentioned in that article for their work in bringing such community-based broadband wireless Internet connectivity to Cerritos, California, has now received a contract from the City of Los Angeles to do what was done for all of Cerritos in part of the San Fernando Valley, by creating a large community-accessible "wireless hotspot" in and around the Marvin Braude Constituent Service Center in Van Nuys, California.