Category: Deployment

Telabria has launched its wide area wireless broadband network after six months of intensive trials in Kent, South East England. Targeted at both residential and business markets, the Skylink service offers customers symmetric broadband speeds up to 10Mbps, as well as voice-over-IP (VoIP) telephone service. Via [informationweek.com]

If you think setting up a wireless network is difficult in your living room, try the Antarctic. For the last seven years scientists in Antarctica have been setting up access points and repeaters in sub-zero temperatures and 80 mile per hour winds. To the hundreds of scientists stationed there, wireless gives a big morale boost...

Canary Wharf is to become Europe's largest wireless internet-enabled business district, with employees able to connect to the web in office reception areas, parks and shops. Via [vnunet.com]

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom got nationwide publicity last year by marrying gay couples in City Hall, but now he's launching a crusade he regards as even more controversial: building a high-speed wireless Internet system offering low-cost service to residents. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

New mesh-networking software from PacketHop lets police and first responders use their mobile devices to set up wireless networks that don't require Wi-Fi access points or routers. Via [informationweek.com]

Visitors to any of the 39 rest areas available along the Iowa Interstate highway system can now use their 802.11-based devices to access the Web for free. The hotspots, which are also found at eight welcome centers and two shopping malls, were deployed by Des Moines-based I Spot Networks. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

The city is kicking off pre-Wimax for city services later this month, an effort designed to improve employee productivity. Via [informationweek.com]

Mobile workers in Docklands will soon be able to get high-speed wireless access from the bars and shops surrounding the UK's highest buildings. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

NZX-listed transport company Toll New Zealand has begun using wireless handheld computers connected by WiFi access points to check-in passengers on its Interislander ferries, a move that it says could halve loading times. Via [stuff.co.nz]

WiMax is in the air this week, as Airspan Networks today announced the $5 million expansion of an agreement with Yozan for WiMax deployment in Tokyo. Via [reed-electronics.com]

While lawmakers in some parts of the country are fighting to ban free wireless broadband access, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom is looking at it as a potential tool for fixing community problems. Via [informationweek.com]

The city of San Francisco wants ideas for making the entire 49-square mile city a free -- or at least cheap -- Wi-Fi zone. Via [businessweek.com]

A year after launching a roughly $8-a-day wireless Internet service, Boston's Logan International Airport is facing growing complaints that it's trying to impose a ''WiFi monopoly" at the airport. Via [boston.com]

Boeing's Connexion and Airbus' OnAir this week both announced partnerships with mobile phone specialists to pave the way for in-flight GSM and CDMA device usage. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Intel is throwing its financial, technical and lobbying weight behind the rising tide of municipally run broadband wireless networks, seeing these as a way to stimulate uptake of Wi-Fi and WiMAX and so sell more of its chips and increase its influence over the communications world. Via [theregister.co.uk]