Archive for 'Wireless Network Technologies' Category
The Cablecos’ Various & Sundry Wireless Plans
17 May 2008- Cox and Cablevision Have Their Own Wireless Plans, the Latter Reviving Wi-Fi Mesh
- Charter and Mediacom Leaning towards Joining Clearwire Group
The following analysis is excerpted from a Wireless Watch report. To get a free copy of the complete report, please e-mail paperboy@riderresearch.com with your name and the name of your company and ask for […]
Cablevision Goes Wireless
17 May 2008 - Wi-Fi, Not WiMAX
Cablevision will spend over $300 million to build a network of Wi-Fi hot spots primarily across its footprint on Long Island, NY but also in others parts of the New York City market. The service will be free to Cablevision customers.
The company has already begun the rollout and expects to be finished […]
Sprint and Samsung: ‘Mobile WiMAX Is Ready’
17 May 2008As we went to press, Sprint and Samsung said that mobile WiMAX, which includes the version for stationary devices, is ready for commercial deployment. The two said Samsung’s mobile WiMAX network infrastructure gear and unspecified Samsung WiMAX devices have passed Sprint’s “rigorous commercial acceptance criteria with flying colors.” The criteria included overall performance, handoff performance […]
Idaho Gets WiMAX Before World Capitols, Way Before
29 February 2008New York, London, Paris and Tokyo may not be able to get WiMAX service but Hailey, Rexburg, Pocatello, all in Idaho, can.
Tiny Digital Bridge Communications (DBC), the WiMAX service provider, promises to also launch WiMAX in Sun Valley and Ketchum, Idaho in the coming months.
How can it be that all those potato farmers and skiers […]
Sprint’s $29.5b Quarterly Loss Threatens Its Xohm WiMAX
29 February 2008Sprint Nextel’s fourth quarter 2007 loss of $29.5 billion is not going to help the company’s Xohm branded WiMAX efforts.
However, a quick examination of the quarterly results shows that WiMAX may be Sprint’s best hope for the future.
The question is whether it might be forced to spin off Xohm or bring in outside investors in […]
It’s MoCA, Not WiMAX for Verizon
29 February 2008Sometimes the brain goes faster than the fingers as it did with us last week. Verizon selected MoCA-based set-top boxes operating over coax wiring from Motorola for its FiOS deployment. It, of course, did not and likely will never select anything associated with WiMAX, the wireless Internet access technology.
“Wi-Fi for Everyone, I’m In”
22 February 2008- AT&T Offers Free Access in 17,000 Hotspots
- BT, FON Offer Free Nationwide Wi-Fi Access
- Apple Putting Wi-Fi in Everything - Who Needs a CD/DVD?
By Charles Hall
Wi-Fi ain’t ever going away, is it? And isn’t it going to spread everywhere?
And it will certainly, despite the failures of the muni Wi-Fi crowd, be everywhere. We’ve wondered […]
Enforta Deploys WiMAX in Major Russian Cities
22 February 2008Enforta, the largest wireless Internet service provider in Russia, plans to deploy more WiMAX services in Russia in the coming months.
The first eight of Enforta’s new cities, expected to be commissioned in the first quarter of the year, include: Izhevsk, Nizhny Novogorod, Volgograd, Lipetsk, Tomsk, Komsomolsk-na-Amur, Nakhodka and Ussuriysk.
Enforta provides high speed Internet, local and […]
MP3 and Wi-Fi Here to Stay
22 February 2008Most things come and go. Despite better music formats that have improved sound quality and better networks capable of perfectly delivering HD video throughout the home, it seems certain that the MP3 music format and Wi-Fi wireless networking will always be with us. There’s a lot to be said for universality. Floppy disks came and […]
JoikuSpot To Turn Symbian S60 Smartphones Into Mobile Wi-Fi Hotspots
8 February 2008Joikusoft Oy has launched a free mobile application that turns Symbian S60 smartphones into Wi-Fi hotspots.
The application, called JoikuSpot lets a smartphone share its 3G connection wirelessly over WLAN with any WLAN capable device - like laptops, smartphones and the Apple iPod touch. The limited beta version for the Symbian OS just released is […]