Hopling Technologies, makers of IP-based wireless networking equipment, has introduced a line of building-to-buildings WiMAX ready products.Hopling Technologies, makers of IP-based wireless networking equipment, has introduced a line of building-to-buildings WiMAX ready products. According to a company press release, the Xnet Raptor products target point-to-multipoint connectivity and high capacity access applications, such as real-time video, [...]

Rebids on Wilkes-Barre’s proposal for a municipal wireless network are due today. Glenn Fleishman at Wi-Fi Net News sees the new round of bids as part of an evolving trend among service providers seeking multiple revenue streams from muni projects.Airport Infrastructure Management agreed last year to install, operate and maintain a seven square-mile wireless network [...]

Widespread deployment of mobile WiMAX is in the licensed (2.5MHz and 3.5MHz) bands. In the U.S., for example, Sprint Nextel has an extensive holding of 2.5GHz spectrum, which covers a very large percentage (roughly 85 percent) of the households in the top 100 U.S. markets. How does this affect municipalities?Widespread deployment of mobile WiMAX is [...]

EarthLink will be looking closely at the performance of its municipal wireless broadband business in Philadelphia, Milpitas, Anaheim and New Orleans before plunging ahead with new projects elsewhere. But what would make a city attractive to EarthLink?EarthLink will be looking closely at the performance of its municipal wireless broadband business in Philadelphia, Milpitas, Anaheim and [...]

A growing number of business and political leaders are calling for a national broadband policy. In fact, the U.S. descent as a world leader in broadband could be far deeper than this week’s OECD data indicate.Reactions are coming fast and furious in response to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development report this week revealing [...]

The list of companies that responded to the RFP issued by the counties of Suffolk and Nassau (New York) has been posted (click here). EarthLink and MetroFi are among them. The list of companies that responded to the RFP issued by the counties of Suffolk and Nassau (New York) have been posted (click here). EarthLink [...]