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Archive for May, 2005

ZyXEL WiFi Phone Wins Award

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

ZyXEL Communications, announced today that its Prestige 2000W v2 VoIP Wi-Fi Phone won the 2005 SUPERQuest Award for Most Promising New Technologies of 2005 at SUPERCOMM, the world’s premier annual exhibition and conference for communications service providers and private network managers which opens next week, June 6-9, in Chicago. ZyXEL’s mobile P2000W, with a cell [...]

Alcatel WiFi Switch

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 31st, 2005

Alcatel today announced its latest addition to the WiFi switch family, the OmniAccess wireless LAN, a next-generation enterprise Wi-Fi solution based on their partner, Aruba Networks, designed for voice and data user mobility. It includes stackable and chassis-based switches with provide broad Wi-Fi coverage and radio frequency signal management. The WiFi switch is integrated into [...]

Packages From Home

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2005

Packages from Home puts together boxes of items like sun screen, Gatorade, t-shirts, books and phone cards; anything, really, to make soldiers’ time overseas go a little bit easier. American troops in the field often have to dig into their own pockets to buy those items. Winds of Change has also put together a long [...]

PlayDay at PTP

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 30th, 2005

Tom Higgins (email), PersonalTelco’s one-man dynamo for outreach and eduction, has announced a new PlayDay providing newbies and all interested parties a hands-on overview on wireless networks. It’s absolutely free. On Saturday June 4th 2005 the Personal Telco Project will hold an event to help educate the community on the use of the PTPnet, Portland’s [...]

700 Mhz Worth $28B

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 29th, 2005

Companies could bid as much as $28 billion if the FCC auctions licenses for 700 MHz-range frequencies, “assuming that the spectrum is unencumbered,” wrote William P. Zarakas and Dorothy Robyn of The Brattle Group, a consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass. Licenses in the lower 700 Mhz band have already been auctioned. The remaining five C [...]

Portland Cloud Updater

Posted by Sam Churchill on May 27th, 2005

The Portland Tribune has a Portland Cloud Updater (but no real news): Sometime this summer, [Portland] will ask private companies to bid on building a $10 million citywide wireless broadband network that offers low-cost Internet service to schools, hospitals, government, small businesses, individuals and, well, everyone under the cloud. A contract could be awarded late [...]