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Archive for August, 2008

NY Gives Tyco 45 days to Fix Network

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2008

The New York State Office for Technology issued a letter of default to a unit of Tyco Electronics on Friday over a $2 billion contract to build an emergency communications network, giving the company’s M/A-COM Inc 45 days to fix “significant” problems, reports Reuters.

Tyco Electronics said it was disappointed in the move and has [...]

Wireless Carriers Prepare for Hurricane Gustav

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2008

Hurricane Gustav (Times-Picayune coverage & Wikipedia), the tropical storm bearing down on the Gulf Coast, could be a test for the country’s wireless carriers, which faced criticism and a regulatory push after Hurricane Katrina took out networks.

Sprint Nextel’s Emergency Response Team, with trucks that can act as cell towers, was “caravaning down, military-style,” to the [...]

Enforta’s Russian WiMAX Expands

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2008

Russian WiMAX operator Enforta has announced the expansion of its wireless broadband services to an additional 13 cities in Russia thus increasing the company’s overall service area to 68 cities. In September the company will launch operations in the cities of Armavir, Artem, Birobidzhan, Vanino, Dzerzhinsk, Zlatoust, Miass, Novorossiysk, Novotroitsk, Sochi, Sterlitamak, Syzran, and Ulan-Ude.

The [...]

Telework Takes Off

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2008

There has been a sharp increase in the number of North American employers offering telecommuting as an option, reports Telephony Magazine. According to an annual survey by WorldatWork, a global human resources association, 42% of U.S. employers said they offered a telework option, up from 30% in 2007, while in Canada, the jump was even [...]

Thailand Gets Mobile WiMAX

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 29th, 2008

Cisco Systems announced that Thailand’s TT&T is deploying its WiMAX network equipment at Mae Fah Luang University. It’s Thailand’s first production WiMAX network and Cisco’s first WiMAX win in the Asia Pacific market.

Located in Chiang Rai province in north Thailand, Mae Fah Luang University selected TT&T to deploy the network after it obtained a WiMAX [...]

China Mobile: TD-SCDMA in 28 More Cities

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2008

China Mobile is planning a large-scale launch of the country’s own TD-SCDMA technology by the end of June next year, reports Unstrung.
The world’s largest mobile operator, by subscriber numbers, said yesterday that the operator plans to roll out its TD-SCDMA network to a further 28 cities. The operator has already invested 15 billion Chinese Yuan [...]

Students Get Free iPhones

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2008

Abilene Christian University, in Albilene, Texas, will hand out Apple’s iPhone 3G to two-thirds of this year’s entering class of 950 freshmen.
Students will be expected to use the devices to brainstorm ideas and get virtual handouts and podcasts during class while instructors will use them for such tasks as monitoring attendance.
“This is a [...]

Wi-Fi Gets a Roaming Standard — 802.11r

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2008

The IEEE has completed 802.11r, a standard that lets Wi-Fi devices roam quickly between access points, improving the performance of VoIP on enterprise LANs.
The IEEE 802.11 standards were originally defined with single access points in mind. But when devices move from one access point to another, it takes around 100ms to re-associate, and several seconds [...]

Dems Get MOVE On Streaming

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2008

Every major site and TV network is live streaming the Democratic National Convention, explains Paid Content. They include MSNBC.com, ABCnews.com ( on Yahoo News), CNN.com, CBSnews.com, FoxNews.com and Cspan.

But the most awesome (I have probably never used that word in seven years of this site) online video feed is on the official Democratic Convention site, [...]

XOHM to Launch with Location Services

Posted by Sam Churchill on August 28th, 2008

Sprint’s WiMAX service, Xohm will partner with location-based content providers including uLocate Communications, AccuWeather, Navteq and other services, said Art Spivy, director of content and community services for Xohm. GPS in the XOHM system continually updates the user’s position and feeds it to back-end applications, a feature implemented by California-based Open Wave.

Location based content [...]