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Archive for July, 2003

Emergency/Rural Money Woes

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

Mobile Radio Technology Magazine says a well-respected research group reports that first responders need $98.4 billion more than planned over the next five years. Former Sen. Warren Rudman, R-N.H., and Richard Clarke, President Bush’s former cybersecurity chief, led the 20-member task force that wrote the report, “Emergency Responders: Drastically Underfunded, [...]

Global Broadband Alliance

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

The Wireless Broadband Alliance today announced three major wireless operators from North America and Europe have joined the Alliance to help establish global Wi-Fi roaming. They are T-Mobile (USA), T-Mobile (UK) and BT (UK). The wireless broadband alliance was started in March by five operators — Singapore’s StarHub, Telstra [...]

European Wi-Fi Most Expensive

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

The BroadGroup, a London-based consultancy, said today that their analysis, conducted for a new report, suggests that European pricing for public access wireless LANs is still the highest worldwide. The report also forecasts that growth in hotspot deployment will increase across Europe by some 45% to the [...]

Paris Wi-Fi Underutilized

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

According to an article in Muniwireless.com, only 1,700 people have used the Wi-Fi network installed outside metro stations along the Gare du Nord - Porte d”Orleans line in Paris between 1 April 2003 and the end of June. This is one of the busiest metro lines in Paris and considering that thousands of [...]

AT&T Orders 3g Gear

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

AT&T Wireless today announced agreements with Nortel Networks and Ericsson to deploy what is expected to be the first commercial W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple band Access) wireless network in North America. W-CDMA (wideband code division multiple access) technology, will initially be offered in San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle and Dallas. It [...]

Stadium Objects to Free Wi-Fi

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 23rd, 2003

Oregon Live reports that Personal Telco, the free Community Wireless leader in Portland, is in a bit of hot water. Moonlight Staffing, with an office across the street from the home field of the Portland Beavers baseball team is providing a free wireless hot spot. But PGE Park management is not amused. [...]

PCTel Roams Schlotzsky’s

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 22nd, 2003

WiFi-Texas Hotspots will use PCTEL’s Segue Roaming Client to connect and automatically authenticate subscribers and other authorized users on their networks used in Schlotzsky’s Deli which provides free internet access as well as other places. The Segue Roaming Client provides secure, seamless access and roaming capabilities for Wi-Fi [...]

Canada’s Broadband Attack

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 22nd, 2003

Canada, which has twice the broadband penetration of the United States, is about to pull further ahead. DSL Reports the first step toward the Government of Canada’s commitment to high-speed connectivity for all Canadian communities by 2005″ is under way, with “priority given to First Nations, northern, remote and rural [...]

$169 Lindows Webstation

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 22nd, 2003

C/Net reports that Lindows.com announced today a $169 desktop machine, called the WebStation. The basic PC has no hard drive or floppy. Instead, it boots Lindows from its CD drive and uses data, downloaded from a network or an Internet connection. Some versions of Lindows [...]

Linksys + Intel Certification

Posted by Sam Churchill on July 22nd, 2003

The Intel/Linksys verification program certifies that Intel Centrio gear will work with Linksys products. Products will be branded with a label reading “Verified with Intel Centrino Mobile Technology”. Techdirt has an interesting take on this program
“…It’s irksome when big companies like Intel and Linksys try to [...]