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Somerville, Massachusetts (pop. 77,000; 4 square miles) has issued a Request for Interest (RFI) for its municipal Wi-Fi network. The city wants to achieve three goals: improve public service: give city personnel access to data while they are out in the field, enhance public safety; bridge the digital divide: inexpensive wireless broadband access for all [...]
Fifty-two Danish communities, including Copenhagen, will be getting free citywide WiFi service next year. Gratis Danmark, the project manager, is also working to get free WiFi in bus and train stations. Part of the costs of maintaining the network will come from advertising (we’ve seen this model before). Danish trains run by Arriva already provide [...]
It made sense to us that small-to-medium-size businesses might be some of the early adopters of mobile WiMax services in the U.S., especially companies with “local nomads,” workers who roam a lot but in a somewhat local region (which could be covered by a single metro-area WiMax service). Seems like the Clearwire folks are thinking [...]
I’ve been writing about WiFi-enabled buses in London, Estonia, Latvia and other parts of the world but now a very enterprising couple have outfitted school buses in rural Arkansas with Wi-Fi to provide Internet access to kids on their 90-minute bus journeys to and from school. The WiFi project by the Aspirnaut Initiative has been [...]
The French Parliament, in a recent law called “Modernisation de L’Economie” ordered ARCEP, the telecom regulator, to study the impact of “local collectives” (local government cooperatives) on broadband coverage and speed in France. ARCEP released the results of its study just before Christmas. It is considered to be legacy of Paul Champsaur (president of ARCEP) [...]
With the prospect of two new appointees to ARCEP (the French regulator) to replace Paul Champsaur and Gabrielle Gauthey, both of whom were instrumental in bringing more competition into the French telecommunications market, a war of words has erupted between ARCEP and the French operators, notably, France Telecom. During the tenure of Paul Champsaur, who [...]
The Netherlands’ competition authority (NMa) approved the joint venture between KPN, the Dutch telecom incumbent, and Reggefiber, a FTTH operator, to build out fiber networks to homes in the Netherlands. Initially, the competition authority and OPTA (the telecom regulator) rejected the joint venture because they feared that companies’ tie-up would exclude service providers from delivering [...]
WorldMax, the WiMAX operator in Amsterdam, says that subscribers to its Aerea service can now enjoy download speeds of up to 5 Mbps if they sign up for the most expensive plan (Aerea 5.0 which sells for 24.95 EUR per month for a 1-year plan or 29.95 per month on a monthly plan). Unfortunately you [...]
The question about how WiMax provider Clearwire would answer the national-roaming question got a little bit clearer Wednesday, when Sprint officially announced its long-promised 3G/4G hybrid device, a USB dongle that lets a laptop user connect to both Clearwire’s WiMax and Sprint’s 3G cellular networks. For right now, that former option means one city — [...]
AdMob, a mobile advertising marketplace, revealed that smartphone users, in particular those who own iPhones, have been logging onto Wi-Fi networks in large numbers over the past few months. They predict Blackberry and T-Mobile Android G1 users will also use Wi-Fi more often. The survey shows that in the US, “8 percent of total requests [...]
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John: is this a free service for snow birds ?...
Urbanite: I thought the same thing, until I found out they u...
A Ajaz: Dear All Good day!
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irene barry: I am submitting a grant proposal for my school and...
doug berman: Having deployed hundreds of outdoor AP networks. I...
Meeting Fairy: Very good point on wifi access. Now, this is not g...
Someone in Thailand: Engenius, Zyxel, Ubiquiti which do not guarantee g...
Rory Coanway: Singapore is far more dense than the U.S. and make...
Esme Vos: That is something I'm trying to find out....
Rory Conaway: Do we know what access point they are using?...
me: Wimax uses adaptive modulation the speed is direct...
Ken Biba: I am skeptical of the overarching assertions in th...
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