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Varadzin, Croatia is deploying a citywide wireless broadband network for government and public use. According to service provider, Magik Telekom, 45 Motorola mesh nodes have already been installed, covering an area of one square kilometer. The city is testing a number of applications on the network: monitoring traffic, controlling street lighting and parking using video surveillance. The city expects that it will have to expand the network because of increased demand from the public.

Motorola will be coming out with a WiMAX USB adapter called the USBw100 in Q4 2008. The adapter will work worldwide for three frequency bands: 2.3 GHz, 2.5 GHz and 3.5 GHz. This is very good news for people who travel (and have Macs). Now all we have to do is figure out where there is WiMAX service and how much it costs, and whether our hometown WiMAX operator has a roaming agreement with the other WiMAX operator.

Fast-growing Weber County, Utah, is the latest county to begin a pilot for a 4.9-GHz public safety network. Motorola is leading the effort, starting with 11 hot zones throughout the county for use by the sheriff’s department and four IP cameras located at one local school. Once the pilot is fully deployed and tested, the county intends to expand video surveillance to all county schools and other locations, eventually increasing network coverage at populated centers throughout the county, whose population…

Hurricane season has started and the state of Mississippi is preparing for it with the deployment of a border-to-border emergency wireless voice and data network.Hurricane season has started and the state of Mississippi is preparing for it with the deployment of a border-to-border emergency wireless voice and data network.

This week, Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour signed a contract with Motorola for the Mississippi Wireless Information Network (MSWIN). The network will use the 700 MHz public safety band. To insure the state…

Motorola is partnering with a state-owned Vietnamese company to launch a WiMAX trial in the country’s two largest cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.Motorola is partnering with a state-owned Vietnamese company to launch a WiMAX trial in the country’s two largest cities, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.

Motorola will work with Vietnam Datacommunications Company, a division of the state-owned Vietnam Posts and Telecommunications Group, to deploy Motorola’s wi4 WiMAX technology in year-long trials covering urban areas in each city.…