Archive | December, 2008

Survey on impact of municipal broadband networks on economic development

By on December 2, 2008 in City & County WiFi Networks, Legislation and public policy

Craig Settles is conducting a survey on the impact of municipal wired and wireless networks on economic development. If you are an executive or manager of an economic development organization, please take the survey online. The survey is sponsored for the second year by the International Economic Development Council. This year’s survey addresses three areas: [...]

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Free Wi-Fi on buses between Heathrow Airport and Reading

By on December 2, 2008 in Consumer

RailAir buses running between Heathrow Airport and Reading (a city in the UK technology corridor) are now offering free Wi-Fi service to passengers. The journey takes approximately 50 minutes. Buses are equipped with Icomera’s Moovbox M Series mobile broadband gateway which uses 3G as backhaul and allows the bus operator to track vehicles in real-time [...]

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Clearwire mum on Xohm launches, says LTE a possibility

By on December 1, 2008 in Industry News, WiMAX, WiMax Technologies

The new Clearwire just concluded its first conference call with analysts and press types, and while some questions did get answered there were more questions raised by the quick interaction, including a declaration that Clearwire might switch from WiMax to Long Term Evolution (LTE) as a technology base sometime in the future. While declaring mobile [...]

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Event: National Broadband Strategy Call to Action, December 2

By on December 1, 2008 in Events, Legislation and public policy, Resources

The New America Foundation is hosting an event called the National Broadband Strategy Call to Action on Tuesday, 2 December 2008 from 10:00 to 11:30 am at the Dirksen Senate Office Building, SD-G50, First Street NE and C Street NE, Washington, DC. Here is a description of the event: In an unprecedented display of consensus, [...]

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Airspan and Freedom4 demo WiMAX roaming on a laptop

By on December 1, 2008 in Industry News, WiMax Technologies

Roaming between WiMAX networks just got a boost after Airspan, an equipment maker, and FREEDOM4, a UK WiMAX operator, showed a laptop with a WiMAX USB dongle that allows the user to roam on WiMAX networks that use different spectrum bands. This is significant because it allows WiMAX operators to enter into roaming agreements with [...]

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