At CTIA Wireless® 2013, this week in Las Vegas, WiFi hot spots were the hot topic. Carriers are anxious to get the prime realestate in dense population areas, inside malls and offices. RCR Wireless lists the top providers of Wi-Fi offload solutions. With half of all IP traffic expected to be delivered over Wi-Fi within [...]
The FCC will allocate $300 million in a second round of Connect America Phase I incremental funding to further leverage private investment in rural America. The funding is available to carriers who will have an opportunity to deploy into newly eligible areas. The FCC also adopted a process to challenge the eligibility of particular census [...]
Engadgetreports a fleet of camera-equipped, remote-controlled blimps are live-streaming Google I/O on YouTube, right now, It’s called Google AirShow and it’s taken over the airspace within Moscone Center. Chris Miller, a software engineer with AKQA (Facebook), explained to Engadget they use an off-the-shelf model airship that’s flown manually via standard a 2.4GHz radio. Each blimp [...]
Ruckus Wireless today announced that it was selected by Telecom NZ, the national communications service supplier in New Zealand, to transform conventional payphones into outdoor Wi-Fi hotspots in locations across the country. Telecom’s initial pilot project, completed in less than 12 weeks, outfitted phone booths in holiday locations over this past Christmas in December 2012 [...]
The Portland Development Commission named 16 semifinalists to boost entrepreneurship in the city. About 240 young companies applied to participate in the Startup PDX Challenge, which will award up to six $10,000 grants, plus free rent and professional services for a year, reports the Oregonian. They are: ActivEd: Educational technology Alum.ni: Online alumni communities. Member [...]
Qualcomm’s chief technology officer, Mat Grob, pitched the idea of small, private cellular base stations this week, showing a base station small enough to be integrated into a set top box or home router. “There really is no alternative,”said Matt Grob, Qualcomm’s CTO, during a presentation at the Qualcomm On conference in Santa Clara, California. [...]
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