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Santa Clara’s non-profit electric utility has acquired the wireless nodes installed by MetroFi to create a wireless automated meter reading system and deliver free Wi-Fi service around neighborhoods. The utility bought the nodes at $500 per unit (retail price is $2500). MetroFi went out of business last year after attempting to create citywide Wi-Fi networks [...]
After filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this month, Nortel has also decided to pull out of the mobile WiMAX market. It will still sell fixed WiMAX equipment. This should come as no surprise. Nortel failed to win the Sprint contract (losing out to Motorola). It has not managed to gain any critical mass in the [...]
WiFi Rail, a company that designs and deploys Wi-Fi networks in public transport, has signed a 20-year agreement with BART to roll out Wi-Fi service on all BART trains. Passengers already have Wi-Fi access in four downtown SF stations (I’ve logged onto the network with with my iPod Touch and it was quite fast), as [...]
Last week I posted “Is Your ISP a Bad ISP?” pointing to a wiki with a list of Internet service providers who throttle P2P traffic. One person submitted a comment saying that the list is outdated. Now, you can find out for yourself if indeed, your ISP is playing funny games with your connection. I [...]
Harold Feld tries to answer the question: why are we paying so much money for text messaging? Excerpt: The cost charged to consumers for text messaging has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the actual cost of the service. Yet — as we are constantly reminded — the cell phone market has four national players [...]
In listening to a replay of Tuesday’s Verizon/Verizon Wireless year-end earnings conference call, I did hear some more optimism from company execs about launching “commercial” deployments of Long Term Evolution services by the second half of 2010 — not as aggressive as once thought, but still well ahead of stated LTE plans from other big [...]
A survey conducted by Devicescape, The Cloud and Trustive reveals that 84 percent of respondents want citywide WI-Fi and 91 percent expect Wi-Fi when they are traveling (i.e. when they are in airports, bus terminals, train stations and ferries). Two other interesting figures from the survey: 56% are willing to pay for citywide Wi-Fi access [...]
If you are interested in the wireless broadband technology known as WiMax but in need of some deep-dive information on what it’s all about, I am pleased to announce that our WiMax Market Report has just undergone a thorough edit and updating, and is ready for 2009 with the latest and greatest US WiMax market [...]
If, like me, you hate long-term mobile phone subscriptions, you will be pleased to hear that a French mobile operator, SFR (a subsidiary of Vivendi), is allowing customers to purchase data plans on a prepaid basis. If you live in France, you do not have to sign up for one- or two-year contracts. SFR has [...]
The canton of Fribourg, Switzerland is providing free Wi-Fi service to visitors in government offices, schools and hospitals in its capital, Fribourg. The canton will roll out free Wi-Fi to the other 168 municipalities in its jurisdiction in the coming months. I am not surprised to see more local governments and enterprises offering free “guest” [...]
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