MuniWireless

One by one the airlines are offering Wi-Fi to passengers, now it’s Delta’s turn. They will have Wi-Fi service in all domestic flights by the end of the summer. The service costs $9.95 for flights three hours or shorter and $12.95 for longer flights. American Airlines and Virgin America have signed agreements with Air Cell, the Wi-Fi provider for Delta.

Wi-Fi has always been popular with passengers stuck on long flights. Boeing Connexion used to offer Wi-Fi on SAS and Lufthansa…

The European Commission has decided to set aside part of the radio spectrum for road safety and traffic management: 30 MHz of spectrum in the 5.9 Gigahertz (GHz) band which will be allocated within the next six months by national authorities across Europe to road safety applications, without barring other services already in place (such as radio amateur services).

The goal is to allow people to develop wireless smart vehicle communications systems (co-operative systems) that would let cars talk to other…

St. Pancras Station, the new fancy high-speed rail hub in London, is now offering free Wi-Fi service. The station, which is used by the Eurostar and features among other things, Europe’s longest champagne bar, opened recently to the delight of frequent Eurostar travelers. Now they are outdoing other European train stations by offering free Wi-Fi.

I travel frequently in Europe and my experience with train station Wi-Fi has been negative. Most of the stations’ Wi-Fi service is run by the local…