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Glenn Fleishman has an excellent article today pointing out the omissions and errors in a NY Times piece entitled Wi-Fi Overload at High-Tech Meetings, a topic that we have covered here on MuniWireless (by asking an expert, Tim Pozar, about why conference Wi-Fi sucks and how to improve it). The Times article quotes one person [...]
While the date is officially “tomorrow,” the press release for the Clearwire 4G WiMAX network launch in the San Francisco Bay Area is live late Monday night along with some very detailed coverage mapping that shows more than a few gaps in coverage both in and around San Francisco, as well as down the Peninsula and in [...]
Call it the incredible shrinking ambition of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom. Instead of WiFi throughout San Francisco, it’s WiFi only in public housing in San Francisco. NBC Bay Area reports: A mere six months removed from promising free WiFi in all of San Francisco’s public housing units, the city has delivered. All 33 facilities [...]
The Christian Science Monitor has a list of the top 5 overlooked stories of 2010, two of which were not at all overlooked by MuniWireless: the Stuxnet worm twilight of the desktop computer TARP is cheap common school standards rise of natural gas Indeed, Larry Karisny posted a long article on Stuxnet (Smart Grid security alert: [...]
AT&T announced that it is expanding Wi-Fi service in Times Square just in time for the New Year’s Eve celebration which draws hundreds of people to Times Square every year. I reported a few months ago that AT&T had created a Wi-Fi hotzone in Times Square to experiment with offloading data traffic from their 3G [...]
UPDATE: As a more-awake commenter noted below, this probably isn’t an “official” AT&T Twitter feed. That explains a lot, eh? Corrected the headline to reflect reality. While we are all for honesty and transparency when it comes to corporate business dealings, you have to wonder how long the person running the @ATTUpdate feed on Twitter [...]
With the Clearwire/Sprint 4G WiMAX launch happening in San Francisco sometime this week(my guess is that we may see press releases crossing the wires sometime Monday night) the Sprint folks asked me for some commentary on 4G devices, how people use them, and how the Sprint/Clearwire service plans stack up against other offerings. Watch the video for [...]
I think it’s time to set the municipal alarm and wake the industry back up. Between Verizon and Sprint, I can’t figure out whose marketing department is worse. I do know these companies keep supporting more reasons to push WiFi. The technical divisions of these companies finally deploy high-speed mobile broadband but they promptly shoot [...]
I was interviewed last week by Elizabeth Woyke of Forbes for an article entitled Wi-Fi’s Task for 2011: Making Networks iPad Friendly. Her article focuses on my (and many others’) frustration with enterprise and public wireless networks which are designed for people sitting down at a table working on a laptop: Public Wi-Fi networks were [...]
Today in frigid weather, I went to Union Square to see how Towerstream’s Wi-Fi network performed. Considerably closer to the ITU’s definition of 4G than any other technology available today, I was able to use my laptop’s built-in 802.11N Wi-Fi adapter to connect to the Access Point at 138Mbps. Excellent quality on its own, and in [...]
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