Archive | August, 2008

AT&T: We like WiMAX!

By on August 1, 2008 in Industry News

Readers of our Sidecut Report on WiMax weren’t surprised to read in USA Today that the big telco likes WiMax, despite a strategic direction tilted in favor of Long Term Evolution (LTE) for its main 4G strategy. In our report, we offered some details of AT&T’s current WiMax deployments, which include one in Alaska and [...]

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France to boost competition in mobile telephony through MVNOs

By on August 1, 2008 in Europe, Legislation and public policy

The French competition authority Conseil de la concurrence (equivalent of the FTC in the US) wants the government to ease regulations governing mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs) to increase competition in the mobile telephony market, which is dominated by SFR, Orange and Bouygues Telecom. The competition authority recently issued a report in which it noted [...]

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Springfield, Michigan launches municipal Wi-Fi service

By on August 1, 2008 in Consumer, WiFi Deployments

The town of Springfield, Michigan (pop. 5000) began offering Wi-Fi service to its residents this week. Using a $750,000 grant from the Michigan Economic Development Corp., Springfield hired ACD to deploy the network throughout the municipality. ACD is using equipment from Zhone Technologies. Wi-Fi is already available in some parts of the community; other neighborhoods [...]

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