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The recent Iliad-Free press release boasting of the world’s largest community Wi-Fi network has left many of us skeptical and puzzled. I posed a few questions to Xavier Niel, CEO of Iliad-Free, about the configuration of the network and the company’s intentions. Niel confirmed the network is now in beta “just like Gmail” with thousands [...]
AT&T announced that it will upgrade its existing 3G network to High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) 7.2. The upgrade is expected to be completed by 2011. The company says that the network upgrade is necessary in order to keep up with increased data traffic from smartphones and netbooks. AT&T also plans to improve coverage by [...]
Admob’s April 2009 report reveals interesting (but not surprising) data on the continued growth of the iPhone’s and the iPod Touch’ share of mobile web requests. Although smartphone sales around the world are estimated to be 12 percent of total phone sales, 35 percent of Admob’s worldwide requests in April 2009 come from smartphones. The [...]
Iberbanda, a Spanish telecommunications company owned by Telefonica, El Corte Ingles (a department store chain), Grupo PRISA and Omega Capital, has chosen Alvarion as its equipment provider for the WiMAX network they are deploying in the 3.5 GHz frequency band in Catalonia, Spain. Iberbanda won a public tender to provide WiMAX service to the Catalonia [...]
An article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune about the Minneapolis municipal wireless network says that the provider, US Internet, has 14,000 subscribers but the city is not using the network as intensively as they had planned. The city pays USI $1.25 million per year for its use of the network but so far, it uses [...]
AT&T is going after “mobile savvy tweens, teens, and students” (as well as adults and small business owners — why not?) in its recent press release which states that the carrier will expand its portfolio of 3G netbooks to include Acer, Dell and Lenov0 – will and make them available in AT&T stores throughout the [...]
You’ll have to forgive the breathless press release issued by Iliad-Free where they boast of having the largest “community Wi-Fi network” in the world with 3 million Wi-Fi “hotspots”. It’s not a Wi-Fi hotzone or any kind of citywide Wi-Fi. What Iliad-Free has done is supply every ADSL subscriber with a Wi-Fi access point that [...]
Less than six months after first introducing WiMax services in Portland, Ore., Clearwire is already starting to mix in some aggressive pricing promotions, including a new unlimited-use home and mobile package for $55 per month. In a call late last week following up on the company’s first-quarter earnings announcement, Clearwire chief strategy officer Scott Richardson [...]
Founded in 1999, BridgeWave Communications, Inc. is the leading supplier of wireless gigabit connectivity solutions. BridgeWave’s point-to-point wireless bridges are widely deployed in mainstream enterprise and service provider network applications and are poised to play a key role in the migration to 4G mobile network backhaul. For more information, visit www.bridgewave.com. Products BridgeWave gigabit point-to-point [...]
NebuAd, a company that sells online behavioral targeting software to ISPs, has shut down. In 2007, NebuAd reported that it had raised $30 million in funding and for a while, its software seemed very promising for wireless ISPs that wanted to offer free Wi-Fi in exchange for users viewing ads. The company has always claimed [...]
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