Category: Deployment

The City of Santa Monica is rolling out a Municipal Wi-Fi system in select parts of the city. The logic being that it's another service the city can offer to it's visitors and residents. With the number of high tech companies around, it makes the city just that more attactive if they can offer to...

Canadian Telco's Rogers's and Bell have partnered to launch a WiMax network in various areas across the country. The new service offers 512Kbps and 3Mbps from Bell and Rogers is offering 1.5 Mbps service. Bothe companies offerings are comparible to thier wired broadband offerings. This should help provide remote and rural customers with the advantages...

Canada's national ballet school of all places is making the jump to use VOIP over Wi-Fi. The ballet school recently moved into a new building and was looking for a modern solution to thier communication needs to match thier modern building. The partnership with NEC shows how everyone can benifit from emerging technology. Via [computerworld.com]...

WiMax; to stay fixed or to roam. Fixed WiMax is set to hit London in a big way and shows how much growth WiMax still has to make before it hits the big time. Right now fixed (where the customer installs an antenna on thier building) is about the only way WiMax can be profitable...

Application vendor Newbury has released a new product to make it easier for enterprises to leverage positional data on thier WiFi clients. The software allows network owners to track the location of clients through a number of AP's and can launch location specific services based on that location. The system can also track the location...

Milpitas, California does'nt seem like a likely place but it is going to be one of the most unwired towns in the US. Smaller communities weem to have less problems with municipal WiFi plans and incumbant service providers don't try to get in the way. Perhaps muni-WiFi needs to focus on the small towns first...

Bellsouth is pushing thier WiMax service, setup after Hurricane Katrina, as backup for broadband service in New Orleans. The $29.95 service is bundled with landline broadband service. Via [wirelessweek.com]

The city of Pune, India is going to be unwired by Intel over the next year. The plan is to use WiFi and WiMax technologies to cover 400 square kilometers of the emerging tech hub city with wireless net access. The area is riddled with high tech companies who definatly know a few things about...

UK Marriot hotels are set to roll out Wireless net access for guests across 9000 hotel rooms. The deal with vendor iBahn covers 60 hotels for wired and wireless solutions. Hotel guests almost demand that hotels have broadband now. This roll out should keep guests happy with Marriot for a little while anyways. Via [vnunet.com]...

London Stansted, Heathrow, Gatwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Southampton airports will all soon have WiFi available for travellers. The partnership between 'The cloud' and BAA allows the BAA to provide for the ever increasing demand worldwide for WiFi service in airports. Via [vnunet.com]

Large scale municipal WiFi installations is a dream of many municipalities, community groups and businesses. There are many technical challenges to such a deployment such as backhaul, bandwidth provisioning, and other less technical challenges such as who pays for it. Combining municipal WiFi with cellular networks may be the way to encourage thier growth. With...

National Express has launched a trial wireless access systems on its coaches travelling between between London and Cambridge. Via [computerweekly.com]

Ricochet, the early wireless Internet provider once the darling of Silicon Valley geeks, is making a bid to return to the Bay Area. Via [sanjose.bizjournals.com]

Uptake of wireless is growing across a number of industry sectors as the technology matures. Cath Everett reports on the motivations for adoption and the benefits that wireless can bring. Via [vnunet.com]

Cable and DSL broadband providers in Philadelphia are breathing easier Thursday after the city announced its final Wi-Fi contract with EarthLink that seeks to keep retail prices under $20 a month for individual customers. Verizon Communications, which had resisted the citywide wireless broadband deployment, currently offers DSL at $14.95 a month, for instance. Via [techweb.com]...