Category: Deployment

FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Centers is adding wireless broadband to its "Make it. Print it. Pack it. Ship it." offering. Thanks to a little help from T-Mobile USA, print center customers also will now be able to "Wi-Fi it." at more than 1,100 locations throughout the United States. Via [wirelessweek.com]

New York City plans to build a public safety wireless network of unprecedented scale and scope, including the capacity to provide tens of thousands of mobile users with the ability to send and receive data while traveling at speeds of up to 70 mph citywide. Via [computerworld.com]

From July 9 to 18, the role of Wi-Fi as a means of logistics support will be put to an Olympic-sized test. The venue: Cal State Sacramento's Hornet Stadium. The event: The U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials. The challenge: Provide Wi-Fi access not just to hundreds of reports and thousands of spectators, but also...

The airport authority-controlled Wi-Fi networks at several airports are shaping up as ground zero in an emerging battle between airlines and airports over the use, regulation and management of wireless networks at the facilities. Via [computerworld.com]

Wi-Fi hotspots are to be installed in some UK courts as part of a three-year pilot scheme with BT. Via [networks.silicon.com]

On Wednesday, the airport unveiled a wireless system that makes the Internet available to anyone with a computer that can access it. Travelers no longer need to plug into telephone jacks to check e-mail or work online. Via [usatoday.com]

Emerging standards-based technologies could unify the fragmented broadband industry, bring down prices. Via [infoworld.com]

AT&T Wireless and Amtrak have teamed up to offer WiFi service to six train stations along the Northeast Corridor. Via [news.designtechnica.com]

Every public library in the country could soon include a Wi-Fi hot spot, if a government trial is a success. Via [news.zdnet.co.uk]

A technology which allows users to make voice calls over a Wi-Fi network may gain early backing among businesses but it will not find its way into consumer mobile phones just yet, says a senior Nokia official. Via [zdnet.com.au]

If Wi-Fi is to be profitable as more than a sideline, it will have to get outside the coffee shop, contends Bert Williams, vice president for marketing for Tropos in Sunnyvale, California. Tropos builds wireless networks that span neighborhoods and entire cities in some cases. That kind of coverage can be turned into a profitable,...

Has China gone cold on hot spots? Three years ago, the country's biggest phone companies, China Netcom and China Telecom, seemed to be in a fast-paced race to sign deals with the country's hotels, airports and fast-food chains to open short-range wireless broadband access points, known as hot spots, in major cities like Beijing and...

Tennis fans attending this year's Stella Artois Championships will be able to surf the web and download documents at high speeds using a wireless broadband network at the Queen's Club in west London. Via [vnunet.com]

Built in 1927, this vessel is among the oldest in Washington State Ferries' fleet, and its twin 1,200-horsepower diesels are the antithesis of high technology. Via [seattlepi.nwsource.com]

Wireless Internet access will soon move beyond railways and onto the roads if RATP, the company which runs the Paris Metro and the capital's bus services, has its way. Via [theregister.co.uk]