Bell Canada and San Diego, Calif.-based technology consulting firm inCode Telecom have come up with an innovative new use for payphones. The two companies have developed a strategy and technology that turns existing payphones into Wi-Fi hotspots. Via [wirelessweek.com]… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: HotSpots
AT&T, IBM, Intel Plan Nationwide Wi-Fi Network
AT&T Corp., IBM and Intel Corp. are expected to announce plans to deploy a nationwide network of public access wireless LAN hot spots, code-named Project Rainbow, at a news conference later today. Via [computerworld.com]… Continue Reading
WiFi Activists On Free Web Crusade
Thousands of tech enthusiasts across Europe are setting up wireless communities to get free Internet access. Via [edition.cnn.com]… Continue Reading
T-Mobile Extends WLAN Offering To Europe
T-Mobile has expanded its U.S.-originated wireless local area network strategy to Europe, rolling out the service in hot spots in Germany and Austria. Via [rcrnews.com]… Continue Reading
Bringing Free Wireless Access To The People
Hundreds of wireless networks that offer free high-speed Internet access are sprouting across the USA. They’re in a park in Midtown Manhattan, a housing project in Boston, a movie house pub in Austin and along the waterfront in Portland, Ore. Via [usatoday.com]… Continue Reading
iPass Upgrades Client, Adds Roaming
Connectivity services company iPass of Redwood Shores, CA, has announced an upgrade to its ‘smart client’ software for end-users of its service. Via [siliconvalley.internet.com]… Continue Reading
Want Some Wi-Fi With That Sandwich?
Hoping people will drop by for free Web access and stay for a sandwich, Schlotzsky’s Deli is offering no-cost wireless access at some of its eateries. Via [news.com.com]… Continue Reading
T-Mobile Spreads Wi-Fi At Airports
T-Mobile USA plans to add so-called Wi-Fi hot spots for high-speed wireless Internet connectivity in about 100 U.S. airport clubs and lounges over the next year through an agreement with Delta Air Lines, United Air Lines, and AMR’s American Airlines, the wireless carrier has announced. Via [pcworld.com]… Continue Reading
Launching: Mobile Operator Wireless LAN
Agere Systems and Proxim Corporation have both entered into strategic partnerships with Swedish mobile solutions provider Ericsson in an effort to push Wi-Fi-based public access hotspots into the mainstream. The goal of the Ericsson Mobile Operator Wireless LAN: to integrate hotspots with mobile 2G and 3G cellular networks and allow roaming between the two types… Continue Reading
Wi-Fi Sheds Its Blue Jean Image
Is Wi-Fi shedding its blue jeans for pin stripes as 802.11 looks to go commercial? Analysts and those in the trenches of fee-based hotspots see an inevitable trend as Wi-Fi availability goes nationwide. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]… Continue Reading
WiFi Metro To Become HotSpotzz
In July hereUare Communications put itself up for sale and said at the time that if it couldn’t sell in two weeks, the company would “go away.” Via [siliconvalley.internet.com]… Continue Reading
Validating The Hotspot Model?
Announced rather quietly earlier in the summer, it looks like Toshiba’s Computer Systems Group (CSG) hotspot initiative is ready for phase two. The company seems poised to give the push toward increasing the number of public hotspots in the U.S. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]… Continue Reading
WiFi Hotspots Pose Threat To US 3G – US Bancorp
The success in the US of public wireless local area network (PWLAN) “hotspot” services is causing a rethink among wireless network operators, which are beginning to see hotspot growth as another reason to delay the roll-out of 3G services. Via [theregister.co.uk]… Continue Reading
HP & T-Mobile Power Up Starbucks With Wireless
Starbucks customers may get a jolt of something a little more powerful than caffeine in the coming weeks. The ubiquitous U.S. coffee chain today with T-Mobile and computing giant Hewlett-Packard unveils in-store wireless access at a press event in San Francisco attended by VoiceStream/T-Mobile Chairman John Stanton, Hewlett-Packard President Michael Capellas and Starbucks Chairman Howard… Continue Reading
Growth: Cities Try To Cash In
The future of wireless networks can be found about an hour from Atlanta, in the foothills of Georgia’s northeast mountains.… Continue Reading