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Dewayne Hendricks tested the Wi-Fi service at the Powell Street BART station on Saturday, 7 February 2009. The service is run by Wi-Fi Rail. He used the iPhone iNetworkTest application. He also tested the speed and latency of AT&T’s 3G network and his Comcast home cable Internet service to see how they compare against Wi-Fi [...]
On the eve of announcing the list of vendors Verizon will use in building out its Long Term Evolution (LTE) fourth-generation wireless network, Verizon CTO Richard Lynch let it be known Monday that the big telco wasn’t going to let its suppliers slow down its aggressive deployment plans. In a keynote speech at the Silicon [...]
Several days ago Ben Verwaayen who has been Alcatel-Lucent’s CEO for 6 months now since Pat Russo’s resignation, presented its fourth quarter and year-end results (for 2008) in a press conference in Paris. Still losing money for the eighth consecutive quarter, the losses for the year ending 2008 was boosted by a huge write-off of [...]
Telia, a Swedish cellular operator, has just added 7-Eleven and Pressbyrån convenience stores to its national network of Wi-Fi hotzones. Telia is working with Clue AB, which runs the Wi-Fi hotspots in convenience stores, to ensure that Telia customers can have Internet access in those locations. Wi-Fi traffic in Telia’s own Wi-Fi zones has increased [...]
North Ridgeville, Ohio (pop. 28,000; 23 square miles) is doing what many municipalities have been busy with lately: upgrading the water meters in homes and buildings to Wi-F- enabled meters that allow the city to monitor how much water people are using. North Ridgeville plans to install 11,500 water meters. The project costs $2.8 million. [...]
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about Lompoc, California which has been unfairly branded a “failure”. The city does have a citywide Wi-Fi network (called LompocNet) and it does NOT have a FTTH network, which I reported back in 2004 when they were thinking of spending several million dollars for a high-speed broadband [...]
Madrid, Spain is planning to deploy a FTTH network in the metropolitan area, which they plan to finish by 2016. The cost of the deployment is 4 Billion Euros. The city will work with telecommunications operators to roll out the network which will provide up to 100 Mbps symmetrical speeds to residents. To encourage the [...]
Ian Williams writes about travelers still being confronted with high prices for Wi-Fi access: “Travelers accessing the internet from Wi-Fi connections at hotels, airport lounges and cafes are being ripped off by high and confusing charges, according to online travel agent Expedia.co.uk. Despite offering similar levels of service in many cases, rates can vary by [...]
Bring out the bubbly! I just added three green dots to my global map of mobile WiMAX service and two yellow dots. UQ Communications, a Japanese WiMAX operator, is offering WiMAX service in Tokyo, Yokohama and Kawasaki. From the end of February until June 2009, customers will be given free access. After that, UQ will [...]
UQ Communications, a WiMAX operator in Japan, will be offering free Wi-Fi service in the Tokaido Shinkansen (high-speed train) starting in March 2009. The first trains to be outfitted with the service at the N700 trains between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka. From the end of March 2009, the station waiting rooms between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka will [...]
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