The city of Delray Beach, Florida has decided to terminate the contract with E-Path Communications [1], the company that the city hired to deploy a wireless hotzone. E-Path says they had problems getting wireless equipment on utility light poles. But the city is fed up with the company’s excuses.

E-Path’s countywide wireless deployment in Long Island, New York [2] is also delayed. In the past I expressed serious doubts about Suffolk and Nassau counties’ decision [3] to go with a provider that has very little experience in building very large wireless networks. So the Delray decision comes as no surprise.