Market forces are driving service providers to offer open systems,” said Tom Tauke, senior vice president for Public Policy & External Affairs at Verizon. Speaking today at the Net Neutrality Conference sponsored by the Progress and Freedom Foundation, Tauke urged the Federal Communications Commission to move promptly to establish a [...]
802 Planet describes how DigitalNet, a systems integrator that does about half its business with the defense department and intelligence agencies, installed a Wi-Fi campus network using a FIPs 140-2 compliant Wi-Fi network. FIPs 140-2 (links), is an encryption standard demanded by the federal government. DigitalNet, the world’s [...]
Wi-Fi Ecademy has a posting about muniwireless.com, a new municipal wireless blog. It’s a great resource with links to: Municipal Wireless Hot Cities Community Wireless TechnologiesLiving Wireless City Carriers Reports Subsidies Legal Stuff Tenders [...]
Critic Glenn Fleishman has some great coverage from the 802 Planet Expo in Boston this week with coverage of the WPA Session and lots more. Glenn has a Q&A about McDonald’s hotspots and an interview with Phil Belanger, Vivato’s PR guy.
“Vivato’s switches are [...]
Dell customers can now get 2,000 free minutes of the T-Mobile HotSpot Wi-Fi service within the first 30 days of activation, when they sign up for a new, qualifying HotSpot service plan, the companies said. There are now more than 2,600 public HotSpot locations, making T-Mobile HotSpot the [...]
Wireless Internet technology may help poor nations leapfrog into the future if they can get assistance to harness the new technology, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Thursday. Wireless Internet access has “a key role to play everywhere, but especially in developing countries and countries with economies in [...]
IBM is targeting public wireless local area networks (PWLANs) and city-wide broadband in their Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) division, reports 802 Planet. “PWLAN is really booming worldwide,” says IBM’s Ryutaro Kusumoto. “Particularly in China, Korea, Japan and Singapore. IBM is in a position to pursue these opportunities.” [...]
LinksPoint, today announced the availability of its second generation of Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers for the Symbol Technologies SPT1800, PPT2800 and PDT8100 series ruggedized handheld computers. The GPS receiver can be “snapped on” to the ruggedized handheld computers for location-oriented applications including field data collection, vehicle, personnel and asset tracking, navigation, field [...]
MapInfo announced MapInfo miHotSpot, the first location-based solution suite for Wi-Fi providers and Hot Spot operators, at 802.11 Planet Expo, today. Hot spot providers can utilize these solutions to analyze location data to intelligently deploy and manage Wi-Fi networks. MapInfo’s Wi-Fi solutions will enable network providers to accurately map [...]
In what constitutes its most expansive deployment to date, Vivato, a wireless infrastructure company, today announced that Hoopfest, the largest three-on-three basketball tournament in the world, will use Vivato 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi Switches to blanket the City of Spokane, Wash., with Vivato providing free net access, city-wide for the event. [...]
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