iProvo is the name of the Fiber to the Home service owned and operated by the city of Provo, Utah. It is the largest municipally-owned Fiber to the Home network in the United States. An iProvo RFP [pdf], was issued on April 18, 2007 to reorganize the system which has run into revenue shortfalls and [...]
Airspan Networks, a leading provider of WiMAX gear, today announced that it has received FCC certification for 5.4 GHz WiMAX equipment (pdf). The certification covers Airspan’s MicroMAX Base Station as well as Airspan’s subscriber terminals, the ProST and EasyST.
Airspan has deployed 5.4 GHz WiMAX internationally for some time, but this certification makes it the [...]
With open source firmware an ordinary Wi-Fi router can get a new brain. You can create a wireless distribution system (WDS) or a mesh network, run a VPN or VoIP server, manage a hotspot RADIUS server, manage bandwidth use per protocol, control traffic shaping and other features.
DD-WRT (wiki and Wikipedia) is among the most popular, [...]
D-Link announced today a “green” line of Wi-Fi routers to their Xtreme NT line of wireless routers. According to D-Link, they reduce power consumption by 40 percent without sacrificing performance.
The new routers automatically detect link status and network cable length, then adjusts power accordingly.
They also feature Wi-Fi scheduling that allows customers to easily program [...]
I don’t have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad.
– Howard Beale
People are increasingly using their phones to surf the Web, says the NY Times. Of the 95 million mobile Internet subscribers in the United States, 40 million actively use their phones to go online, twice the number of two years [...]
Alvarion, announced today that it was chosen by AccessKenya, Kenya’s leading ISP, for a large scale WiMAX deployment in Kenya.
The wireless broadband network, using Alvarion’s 802.16e BreezeMAX solution on 3.3 GHz, will provide broadband access in Mombasa and Nairobi.
Nairobi is currently the 4th largest city in Africa with 2.1 million inhabitants while Mombasa, [...]
Motorola has spun-off its largest and least successful unit, its handset business. Motorola once commanded more than one-fifth of the global handset market, but ended the second quarter close to a 8.5% share.
The company will now comprise three businesses: broadband home solutions, broadband access solutions and cellular networks, the company said. Motorola will create three [...]
New York’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority is developing a pilot project to broadcast CNN at Long Island Rail Road or subway stations. The service should be available as early as next year.
CNN has agreed to outfit six stations systemwide with the screens, and to foot the bill, over the next 12 to 18 months. It’s similar [...]
The Bell operating company — formerly known as Southwestern Bell Corporation (SBC), now AT&T — knows a thing or two about political pressure. The San Antonio, Texas, corporation got the Bush administration to approve their purchase of the former AT&T Corporation, clear 90 MHz of AWS spectrum for their 3G service, and got approval for [...]
Sprint Nextel today announced an agreement to sell approximately 3,300 towers to TowerCo for approximately $670 million in cash. Additionally, the two companies have entered into a long term leasing agreement where TowerCo will provide Sprint Nextel with wireless communications towers to support the company’s CDMA, iDEN and WiMAX networks.
“By leasing rather than owning these [...]
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