Cablevision has launched its Wi-Fi service in various parts of Long Island, but it is available only to customers of Optimum Online. The cable company has set up several Wi-Fi hotzones (they call them community zones) including Long Island Railroad station platforms and parking lots, using equipment from BelAir Networks. It’s unfortunate that non-Optimum Online [...]
A cold lonely summer for NebuAd
NebuAd, the company accused of wiretapping, forgery and browser hijacking by a Free Press report, has just lost their CEO, Robert Dykes. Sources report that the company has also laid off a significant number of employees. What happened to NebuAd? I remember them a year or so ago at one of my conferences — they [...]
iPhone woes: Apple and AT&T sued, 3G network inadequate for data use
Wired reports today that iPhone users have been reporting a lot of outages of AT&T’s data service in places such as Boston, Chicago, Washington DC and St. Louis. Meanwhile, a retired Chicken of the Sea executive has filed a lawsuit against AT&T and Apple alleging the carrier and device maker misrepresented the performance of the [...]
Why the US is losing its lead in innovation and excellence, not just in tech
Judy Estrin, former Chief Technology Officer of Cisco and an entrepreneur who started several tech companies, gives a video interview on why the US is losing its edge in tech and many other fields. Estrin has just published a book entitled “Closing the Innovation Gap” where she focuses not just on tech companies, but also [...]
Obama’s tech team filled with net neutrality advocates
Last week I posted an article about the ubiquitous presence (and sponsor support) of AT&T at the Democratic Convention so I wondered whether an Obama administration would really push for net neutrality. Several people pointed out that Barack Obama has always been a proponent of net neutrality and is well aware of the lack of [...]
Unbundling of broadband access still growing in France
ARCEP, the French regulator (equivalent to the FCC in the US) released a report which revealed that the number of fixed broadband access lines reached 16.7 million households in the country, up 18% from last year. In the last quarter, only 450,000 new subscribers were registered: “This confirms a slight slowdown in growth since the [...]
IEEE approves 802.11r standard for roaming between Wi-Fi devices
The IEEE has approved the 802.11r standard that allows Wi-Fi devices to roam between Wi-Fi access points with a delay of less than 50 milliseconds during the handoff. Handoffs are already supported by the 802.11 a, b and g standards but only for data, not for voice or video. So if you are walking down [...]
- Netherlands adopts net neutrality law May 18, 2012
- Lousy cellular connections push smartphone and tablet users to Wi-Fi May 17, 2012
- EU data roaming price caps save business people 1000 EUR per year May 14, 2012
- Singapore’s nationwide fiber broadband network close to completion May 10, 2012
- Heartland Institute loses donors over stupid billboard ad May 10, 2012
- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 35: Ubiquiti versus Canopy/Cambium for WISPs May 7, 2012
- Edgewater Wireless Introduces Next Generation WiFi3 Technology May 7, 2012
- EU opens public consultation on reducing the cost of broadband deployments April 30, 2012
- Cambridge, UK launches city-wide white space wireless network April 26, 2012
- Case Study: Improving Wi-Fi QoS and Performance in Rural Environments April 24, 2012
- Why broadband still sucks in rural areas April 23, 2012
- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 34: Raising Money for a Wireless ISP Business April 23, 2012
- Are Europe’s mobile operators retreating to their homelands? April 19, 2012
- Best and Worst Hotel Wi-Fi April 18, 2012
- New York City CTO resigns over public safety wireless network debacle April 15, 2012
- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 35: Ubiquiti versus Canopy/Cambium for WISPs May 7, 2012
- Best and Worst Hotel Wi-Fi April 18, 2012
- Why broadband still sucks in rural areas April 23, 2012
- Edgewater Wireless Introduces Next Generation WiFi3 Technology May 7, 2012
- Not good: moving to a captive, closed world for content and Wi-Fi March 1, 2012
- Smartphone owners prefer Wi-Fi over cellular by a huge margin March 2, 2012
- New York City CTO resigns over public safety wireless network debacle April 15, 2012
- Why I dumped my iPhone February 15, 2012
- Tales from the Towers, Chapter 33: What’s your vector, Victor? February 12, 2012
- PCCW completes commercial trial of Next Generation Hotspot network in Hong Kong February 29, 2012
- Lousy cellular connections push smartphone and tablet users to Wi-Fi May 17, 2012
- Cambridge, UK launches city-wide white space wireless network April 26, 2012
- EU opens public consultation on reducing the cost of broadband deployments April 30, 2012
- Testing lab shows Edgewater Wireless outperforms carrier class access points February 14, 2012
- Case Study: Improving Wi-Fi QoS and Performance in Rural Environments April 24, 2012
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