The Thai government has announced that it has begun the deployment of 20,000 Wi-Fi hot zones in Bangkok; they will be installing 20,000 more in 2012. These Wi-Fi hot zones will be placed in government offices, police stations, municipal buildings and hospitals. TOT (the Thai state-owned telecom) will be running the network. The Wi-Fi initiative is [...]

Towerstream has built a citywide Wi-Fi network in Manhattan and is offering access on a wholesale basis to carriers who want to offload data traffic from their 3G networks.Will this be a profitable business? So far Towerstream has no carrier customers. The details of the network are quite impressive. Towerstream deployed more than 1000 access [...]

Tesco, the UK supermarket chain, is rolling out free Wi-Fi in all of its stores in the United Kingdom. Tesco is working with O2 for the network rollout and maintenance. People who have Tesco Clubcards get unlimited access to the network; those who do not own a Clubcard get 15 minutes of free access every [...]

Wi-Fi service is now available on certain Amtrak passenger trains in California: Capitol Corridor (Auburn-Sacramento-Emeryville-San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose), San Joaquin (Sacramento-Oakland-Bakersfield), and Pacific Surfliner (San Diego- LA-Santa Barbara-San Luis Obispo). According to Amtrak, in fiscal year 2011, more than 5 million people traveled on the three railway lines mentioned above. This number represents an increase of [...]