Archive | August, 2010

Clearwire intros $25-per-month iPhone/iPad portable hotspot

By on August 8, 2010 in Apple, WiFi News, WiMAX

Call it the intersection of preparation and opportunity — Clearwire took a swipe at the network troubles that have been limiting the communication features of Apple iPads and iPhones with the introduction of the “iSpot,” a personal 4G/Wi-Fi hotspot that has an introductory service price of $25 per month for unlimited data use. The device, in [...]

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Big Clearwire News: Huge Subscriber Adds, LTE Test Plans

By on August 8, 2010 in LTE, WiMAX

We’ll break down and unpack the news as we get more info during the afternoon, but the big news from Clearwire today is on two fronts: One, a huge surge in new subscriber adds that had the company adding another million projected subscribers to its yearly predictions; and two, announcement of technical trials of Long Term Evolution [...]

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Smart Grid V-Summit: Time for a Change

By on August 4, 2010 in Smart Grid

The Smart Grid Summer 2010 V-Summit hosted experts at every level telling stories of lessons learnt from past deployments to security platforms now being put in place that must support the smart grid for the next 100 years. The sessions were a series of no hype presentations offering professional opinions of how important to get [...]

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Croatian operator returns WiMAX licenses

By on August 2, 2010 in WiMAX

From Telegeography: Croatian state-owned telecoms and broadcasting company Odasiljaci i Veze (OiV) has returned 15 regional WiMAX wireless broadband licences, reports DMEurope quoting local daily Poslovni Dnevnik. According to its chairman, Denis Nikola Kulisic, the company has cancelled WiMAX rollout plans due to “problems with the development of the technology as well as the high [...]

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Tales from the Towers, Chapter 11: You Can’t Fit a Square Peg Into a Round Hole

By on August 2, 2010 in City & County WiFi Networks, How-To

My attention deficit disorder is going nuts so I’m going to veer off Triadland a little bit more.  We have defined a reference low-cost system and we clearly discussed the fact it’s definitely not the best system for a public safety mobile environment.  So I’m going to call this article the prequel.  How do we [...]

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