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Berlin, Germany has very ambitious plans to provide free Wi-Fi access throughout the city, starting with a pilot project around the city’s main streets, Unter den Linden, Friedrichstrasse, Kurfürstendamm and Tauentzienstrasse. If the city is pleased with the results (and Deutsche Telekom doesn’t get in the way, which is what all the European telecom incumbents [...]
An article in the the Guardian pointed out a very interesting phenomenon at McDonald’s outlets in the UK: people in business attire working on laptops who order only drinks. The reason: they’re at McDonald’s for the free Wi-Fi. I’ve already written about how expensive Wi-Fi access can be in the UK and in Europe. So [...]
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) will begin holding meetings beginning on 2 March 2009 with interested parties to discuss the implementation of the Broadband Grant Programs under the Broadband Data Services Improvement Act and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). The first big public meeting involving the NTIA, USDA, and [...]
The Interactive Network for the Fox Cities (INFOCIS), a consortium of seven municipal organizations in the Fox Valley region of Wisconsin, is deploying several wide-area Wi-Fi networks, starting with the city of Appleton and the town of Grand Chute. If all goes as planned, the network will go live in June 2009. INFOCIS is rolling [...]
We’ve added another session to the agenda of the Freedom to Connect conference in Washington DC (March 30-31, 2009): “How to Get and Spend $7,200,000,000.00: What the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or 2009 Means for Netheads.” This session will cover how to qualify for the Act’s $2.5 billion from Agriculture and $4.7 billion from [...]
Meraki has just released a 3-radio 802.11n outdoor mesh product, the MR58, that provides more capacity and speed than 802.11b/g wireless nodes. The list price: $1500. In one bold move, Meraki has dropped the cost of outdoor Wi-Fi mesh equipment to $500 per radio. Meraki is the only outdoor mesh equipment vendor with an 802.11n [...]
IEEE 802.11n is the new international standard for wireless Local Area Networks, incorporating new smart antenna technologies (MIMO – Multiple In and Multiple Out) permitting a 5x performance and 2x coverage improvement for WLANs. While this new technology is becoming the de facto standard in consumer and enterprise networks, it has not yet made an [...]
Last week at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Dick Lynch, Verizon executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, announced that Verizon Wireless (a joint venture between Verizon and Vodafone) had chosen Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson to build their fourth-generation network. Lynch says that the network will be ready by mid-2010. Neither Lynch nor the equipment [...]
There’s a very interesting conference taking place from March 3-5, 2009, Ecomm 2009, which will be held at the San Francisco Airport Marriott. Among the trends that Ecomm’s speakers will address are: Telecom is becoming software The cash cows of telephony and SMS will dry up long term “Phones” are turning into general purpose computers [...]
Even though Verizon CTO Dick Lynch tried to stay away from the download-speed numbers game when we spoke to him recently about the company’s plans for Long Term Evolution, you can’t hide from the mainstream tech media’s need for simple figures for long. So it’s not a surprise to see a whole bunch of people [...]
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