Archive for 'Wireless Network Technologies' Category
IPass Hits on Tata Wi-Fi
8 February 2008Tata Indicom and iPass have announced that iPass customers can now access the hundreds of Tata Wi-Fi hotspots that were added into the iPass Global Broadband Roaming Network.
With this addition, iPass customers will have reliable, high-speed connectivity across India’s largest 20 cities - including the larger business centers such as Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bangalore. […]
Spotigo Launches Wi-Fi User Location for the Mobile World Congress
8 February 2008Spotigo has fine-tuned its Wi-Fi based Positioning Solution (WiPS) for a new application specifically for the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona (Feb 11-14, 2008). This feature lets users see their current position on a map of the fairgrounds and find their way through the venue. Any Wi-Fi device or Wi-Fi tagged device can be […]
WiMAX Competitor LTE Gets Industry Approval
1 February 20083GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project) has approved specifications for Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology that will make it possible for mobile phone networks to offer theoretical peak speeds up to 326 Mbps down and 86 Mbps up.
Actual speeds are likely to be 100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up.
Successful LTE trials in Finland recently showed […]
Will WiMAX be the Savior for 1.2b South Asians?
1 February 2008In North America, Western Europe and parts of Asia like South Korea and Japan, discussions on broadband primarily center round questions like - will Comcast offer 50 Mbps this year, will Verizon’s FiOS expand its footprint to my neighborhood or can H2O really deliver 100 Mbps broadband via fiber in sewer pipes?
Au contraire, in one […]
In Massachusetts, Wi-Fi is for the Trains
1 February 2008The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) has announced that it will be testing Wi-Fi on one of its train lines that carries about 18,000 passengers on a typical weekday.
The Worcester-Framingham line is about 45 miles long and runs between Boston and Worcester in central Massachusetts. The Wi-Fi test will let any Wi-Fi enabled device access […]
Continental Takes Baby Steps With In-Flight Wi-Fi
1 February 2008Continental Airlines became the latest US airline to jump on the in-flight Wi-Fi bandwagon.
Beginning in January 2009, Continental plans to roll out free e-mail and instant messaging offered by LiveTV.
Continental passengers are supposed to be able to use the service with Wi-Fi enabled smart phones, BlackBerries and laptops to connect to work, friends and family […]
Ezmo Has A Plan – Free Music On Your Mobile! Well Some of Your Mobiles
1 February 2008Ezmo, an online music player service, has announced a mobile capability of its service allowing users to listen to their music collection via mobile device.
Ezmo is a service that lets users upload their music collection, listen to it, share it with up to 10 friends and also listen to friends’ shared music.
The new Ezmo mobile […]
Not the Beginning of the End But the End of the End for Municipal Wi-Fi
1 February 2008“We’re long past the beginning of the end, and we’re nearing the end of the end for the build-it-first, figure-revenue-later model of municipal Wi-Fi. – Glenn Fleishman in the article MetroFi Stops Building in Aurora and Naperville, IL at http://wifinetnews.com/archives/008135.html
Wi-Fi When You Fly
29 January 2008- In-flight Internet Access - Take 2
Three major airlines, American Airlines, Southwest Airlines and Virgin America plan to roll out in-flight broadband Internet access in the US suggesting that the failure of Connexion by Boeing hasn’t dampened the Web-thusiasm of some airlines.
American Airlines plans to roll out the in-flight broadband service commercially before the end […]
US Schools Look To Go Wireless, Wi-Fi Providers Couldn’t Be Happier
29 January 2008There are over 98,000 primary and secondary schools in the US with almost 50 million kids, and lots of them are looking to ditch the wires.
ABI Research has put out a new analysis of this budding market of school administrators looking to provide Wi-Fi called “The K-12 Wi-Fi Market Opportunity”.
ABI notes the obstacles - funding, […]