The corridor distance is approximately 1.5Kms and would require the installation of Five Access Points. Total cost to the project would be approximately $12000-$15000 installed. This network could be rapidly expanded in 300M sections covering up to 1000 access points across Metro Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford, Sackville and Spryfield. The overall concept would be to provide major artery corridor acc
ess to free Public High Speed WiFi across the HRM hosted by businesses. This proposal, in its current form requires a public / private buy in, which would see various public businesses providing the Wifi access and installing the equipment at their business locations. The hosts would benefit;
~ by increased client traffic at their location.
~ by establishing their own private, secure and extremely powerful Wireless Network for their internal use.
~ by receiving free SSID marketing of their business, products and even pricing. The alternative model would be a pay-for-service installation, where business hosts would receive free wireless service at their facility and no charge for hardware, in exchange for hosting the equipment and supplying power services, under this model the host company would not receive the SSID marketing component. Users would be charged a nominal fee of $1.50 to $5.00 per month to access the network. These prices are a test bedding figure and represent the minimum to maximum range for service access to the entire WiFi Network.
