The Netherlands Ministry of Economic Affairs has announced that it is accepting applications beginning 1 September 2003 for wireless local loop licenses in the 2.6 and 3.5 GHz frequency bands (one license for each). Both licenses can be granted to one party. KPN, the incumbent operator, has been excluded from the auction entirely, but will [...]

South Korea’s KT Corp. and Intel have agreed to cooperate in wireless telecommunications, digital home networking and broadband convergence network through joint marketing and research and development efforts. The agreement was reached during Intel Chief Executive Craig Barrett’s visit to South Korea. Among the projects slated to be carried out at the research center include [...]

The Seattle Times reports that two cities in Washington state, Bellevue and Kirkland, are thinking of offering free Wi-Fi early next year. The cities are looking to establish hot zones in commercial areas, government buildings, libraries and community centers. Together they will spend between $50,000 and $100,000 studying the various business models in the next [...]

The Linux Journal September 2003 issue features New York City community wireless LANs with interesting pieces on NYC’s community Wi-Fi projects, Linux-powered wireless hot spots, NYCwireless and links to community wireless websites in New York City, free software projects and Linux-based wireless products. The Linux Journal September 2003 issue features New York City community wireless [...]

Dailywireless.org highlights the upcoming battle between competing “4G” wireless proponents in Sydney, Australia. It’s Personal Broadband (Arraycomm) against Unwired (Navini). Dailywireless writes:Dailywireless.org highlights the upcoming battle between competing “4G” wireless proponents in Sydney, Australia. It’s Personal Broadband (Arraycomm) against Unwired (Navini). Dailywireless writes: “[U]nwired uses Navini’s CDMA system on the MMDS band. Navini’s PC Cards [...]

According to an article in Wired (August 21, 2003), telecoms operators are still trying to figure out a business model around Wi-Fi. Although many homes and small businesses have been using Wi-Fi for sometime now, the operators continue to be baffled by how they can wrap products and services around this technology and market it. [...]

Philippe Montubert of Cyberpole Lyon has written a report on the current status of Wi-Fi in France entitled “Wi-Fi in France: No Mass Commercial Rollout of Hotspots Yet, More Hope for Municipal Wireless Deployments”. You can download the PDF file from the Muniwireless website.Philippe Montubert of Cyberpole Lyon has written a report on the current [...]

A program is underway in India to provide villages with Internet connectivity using Wi-Fi combined with “store and forward” technology and the local rural bus system. Villagers prepare their messages at the village kiosk and they’re stored until the Wi-Fi equipped bus drives by, at which time they’re dumped to the bus and stored until [...]