Category: HotSpots

MCI will more than triple its footprint of Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless, MCI announced Tuesday. Via [news.com.com]

The number of public locations where people with wireless laptops can connect to the Internet is growing dramatically, but actual usage remains stalled, a market research firm said Monday. Via [techweb.com]

Leading wireless access operator T-Mobile USA and corporate network service provider iPass have reached an agreement that allows iPass subscribers to access T-Mobile hot spots. Via [news.com.com]

Browsing the Web from this Southern California city may soon become an outdoor sport. Via [cnn.com]

Service providers must come together on roaming agreements to create a future for value-add Wi-Fi hotspot services, experts agree. Via [eweek.com]

The purchase of a new wireless network will make Dallas/Fort Worth Airport the nation's first major airport to offer clean wireless connections for both voice and data. Via [dfw.com]

In what it believes to be a first for the legal profession at least in Canada, law firm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP has enlisted a commercial wireless hotspot operator to provide WiFi Internet access for its clients in the reception areas, meeting rooms and guest offices of its Toronto facilities. Via [itbusiness.ca]

T-Mobile's Austrian subsidiary has acquired Vienna-based Wi-Fi hotspot provider Metronet for an undisclosed sum. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Wireless security for home networks is in the spotlight following an unusual arrest in Canada, where a man stands accused of downloading child pornography over a hijacked Wi-Fi connection. Via [news.com.com]

If you have ever connected to the Internet through a wireless hot spot at a Starbucks, McDonald's or other business, you know how convenient it can be. Unfortunately, the setup is convenient for other people, too -- hackers intent on stealing your log-in information for their own use. Via [computerworld.com]

Verizon Communications is cutting in half the number of hot spots it planned to install in New York City by the end of the year. Via [news.com.com]

Despite the failure of IP1 and Nextgen Networks this year, which sent $1 billion worth of investment down the drain, another telecom start-up is asking the public for $100 million to take on Telstra in Sydney next year. Via [smh.com.au]

Executives from wireless products maker Spirea AB and chip producer Intel Corp. are working with venture capitalists to complete a $4.5 million investment in a Dublin company they formed this year. Via [columbus.bizjournals.com]

Cincinnati Bell Inc. said it is offering its ZoomTown high-speed Internet subscribers free and unlimited wireless fidelity service through the end of the year. Via [cincinnati.bizjournals.com]

Commercial providers still trying to find profit formula for wireless Internet access. Via [globeandmail.com]