Tag: Deployment

The Open Park Project’s free, WiFi hotspot on Capitol Hill has drawn support from members of Congress and the National Telecommunications and Information Administration as the organization begins to raise funds for expansion. Via [gcn.com]

Claiming to be the nation's first "real" mobile city, Kaohsiung City yesterday inaugurated wireless Internet connections in parts of the city to provide free access in the public. Via [taipeitimes.com]

A network of community computer centres, linked by wireless technology, is providing a helping hand for poor farmers in Peru. Via [news.bbc.co.uk]

T-Mobile has expanded its initial foothold in the UK's major airports, extending the reach of its Wi-Fi hotspots to cover the whole of Heathrow, Gatwick and Glasgow airports, along with the international departure lounges at Stansted, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Southampton. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Vodafone has agreed to allow its mobile data customers to use Boeing's Connexion in-flight Wi-Fi service, the mobile phone network said last week. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Plans to test high-speed wireless Internet - Wi-Fi - service on the Seattle-Bremerton ferry run have been dropped because ferry officials have not been able to secure rights for an antenna in the Blake Island area. Via [seattletimes.nwsource.com]

When Microsoft began installing its campuswide wireless network five years ago, it was something of a pioneer. Via [news.com.com]

Singapore Airlines will add in-flight Wi-Fi to its Singapore-London route during Q1 2005, the first step in the carrier's plan to bring live TV to passengers by the middle of next year. Via [theregister.co.uk]

Chicago Public Library Commissioner Mary Dempsey rolled out free wireless Internet connections at the main Harold Washington Library Center and 76 branches. Via [washingtontimes.com]

The governor of Pennsylvania last week signed into law a controversial bill that includes, among myriad items, a provision giving incumbent carriers the ability to prevent cities from creating and charging for municipal Wi-Fi networks. Via [eweek.com]

Some companies and industry sectors are finding the use of Wi-Fi to be a helpful way to leap ahead to cutting edge technology while skipping intermediary steps saving time and money. Via [wi-fiplanet.com]

Baggage handlers are moving more than your bags at Toronto's Pearson International Airport these days. They're also moving megabytes worth of information about them. Via [globetechnology.com]

Philadelphia's plan to offer inexpensive wireless Internet as a municipal service - the most ambitious yet by a major U.S. city - has collided with commercial interests including the local phone company, Verizon Communications Inc. Via [seattlepi.nwsource.com]

Dennis Tseng is an avid Web surfer who loves to hang out in Taipei's upmarket Hsinyi district, where wireless Internet access is freely available to all. Via [olympics.reuters.com]

While overall European IT sales have begun to pick up this year, "lingering uncertainty" has prompted essential hardware renewals and infrastructure upgrades rather than mobilisation projects, IDC has reported. Via [vnunet.com]