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Archive for March, 2004

RBOCs Get Last Mile Autonomy

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

The FCC will urge phone companies to negotiate out-of-court settlements about sharing access to local phone networks, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. The Journal said Kevin Martin, an FCC commissioner is expected to join with two of his colleagues in a letter urging the companies to negotiate rather than [...]

InnoTech 2004

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski will kick off InnoTech 2004, running March 31 & April 1st, at the Oregon Convention Center. Oregon’s Business and Technology Innovation Conference will feature dozens of exhibitors and a variety of tracks. Conferences and Keynotes for Wednesday March 31, 2004 and Thursday April 1, 2004 include; e- Marketing Strategies For Business, [...]

War of the Worlds: SBC Vrs T-Mobile

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

San Antonio-based SBC Communications on Tuesday announced SBC FreedomLink. SBC intends to offer Wi-Fi through UPS Stores and Mail Boxes Etc. locations. Their goal is 6,000 locations within three years. The deal between SBC and UPS is one of the nation’s largest deployments of commercial Wi-Fi hot spots to date. A pilot program is also [...]

Cable Zones

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

Time Warner Cable today announced the availability of a “Road Runner Speed Zone” in San Antonio. It provides free public Wi-Fi — to Road Runner customers. Businesses that sign up will be able to draw traffic from Time Warner Cable’s pool of 650,000 high-speed Internet customers across Texas who can use the service for free. [...]

Auto Mapping APs

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

Tom’s Networking says Propagate Networks has announced the availability of evaluation kits for its AutoCell self-configuring WLAN technology. AutoCell is firmware installed by manufacturing partners in 802.11 Access Points, L2/L3 switches (or WLAN Switches), and optionally in clients (phones, laptops, PDAs). The lightweight, embedded software creates self-configuring wireless LANs. Current Propagate partners include Atheros Communications, [...]

VoIP Announcements

Posted by Sam Churchill on March 30th, 2004

This week at the Voice on the Net Spring 2004 Conference, Jeff Pulver, the iconoclastic CEO of Pulver.com announced Vonage WiFi phones will be available later this year. The announcement follows yesterday’s announcement that AT&T’s CallVantage phone service will offer unlimited local and long distance Internet phone service for $40 a month. It will use [...]