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Lost a little bit in the heated run-up to next week’s highly anticipated introduction of (maybe!) the next model iPhone from Apple is the big question: How exactly are the three major cellular carriers in the U.S., Verizon Wireless, AT&T and Sprint, going to balance their “4G” network promotions with a phone that will probably be called [...]
A consortium of cities in North Carolina led by Charlotte using a $16.7 million BTOP grant from the NTIA for a public safety 700 MHz LTE network, has awarded the contract for building out the network to Alcatel-Lucent. The project is owned by CharMeck Connect, a joint venture among the city of Charlotte, Mecklenburg County, [...]
Free Press filed today in the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston a petition for review of the Federal Communications Commission’s December 2010 Open Internet order. The Federal Register published the new rules last week, opening the window for such lawsuits. Free Press, headquartered in Western Massachusetts, will challenge the arbitrary nature of rule [...]
Something to liven up your day. We shouldn’t take technology too seriously.
The Cloud, one of Europe’s leading mobile Wi-Fi providers, has chosen Ruckus Wireless to supply Wi-Fi equipment for London’s citywide Wi-Fi network which expected to be completed just in time for the Olympics in 2012. The new Wi-Fi network, accessible to more than 350,000 city workers and visitors, is being used to provide more resilient [...]
Remember our series of stories on AT&T’s plans to build a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) network to beef up cell coverage in the Silicon Valley town of Palo Alto? According to Ma Bell’s chief technology officer John Donovan, that plan has recently received approval from the city council, which means that AT&T will likely start putting up [...]
Creating a downtown Wi-Fi hotzone need not be expensive. Indeed, it could even cost $3000, if you know how to set up the network yourself and you use inexpensive access points from Ubiquiti and Meraki. This is exactly what Jason Clay, information service director of Newton, North Carolina has done. According to the Charlotte Observer, [...]
I just returned from Easter Island (Rapa Nui) in the middle of the Pacific, where I spent five days “off the grid”, meaning no Internet, no phone, no email. Here are a few interesting articles I’ve pulled together for your reading pleasure today as I dig through a pile of email. Why is AT&T fast [...]
The city of Houston has deployed a wireless mesh network as part of a Homeland Security-funded initiative to improve public safety in the downtown area. The network is a communications foundation that connects IP video cameras, located at 134 traffic intersections, allowing first responders in Houston to centrally monitor activity in the downtown area from [...]
Ruckus Wireless today announced that its high-speed Wi-Fi wall switch (the ZoneFlex 7025) has been deployed by many hotels that want to to deliver a myriad of IP-based in-room services over a unified wired/wireless infrastructure, while also providing high-speed wireless Internet access to a flood of new Wi-Fi-enabled mobile and handheld devices. The ZoneFlex 7025 Wi-Fi wall [...]
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