Canada’s four wireless players are maneuvering for advantage reports the Globe and Mail. It would represent a failure in the government’s years-long push to create more competition in the wireless business, according to the Globe and Mail. Mobile Service in Canada is Overpriced and Anti-Competitive, according to numerous studies. Mobilicity is one of three small [...]
New wireless customers are choosing no-contract over contract by 10 to 1, reports Fierce Wireless. The 10 to 1 margin in favor of prepaid in the first quarter is quite significant, says Roger Entner. Tracfone, a no contract operator, became the fastest growing carrier in the United States with 839,000 new customers, in the first [...]
Gladstone, Missouri is the next city to get Google Fiber. Google announced Fiber would be coming to the nearby town of Shawnee, Kansas on May 3rd, and now has Sprint’s headquarters in Overland Park virually surrounded. Google also added Austin, Texas and Provo, Utah, to its Fiber-enabled communities in the past two months. Will they [...]
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 [...]
Portland’s transit agency, TriMet, unveiled an e-ticket app from GlobeSherpa this week which is said to be the first used by a U.S. transit agency to let bus, train and streetcar riders buy and use fares from their iPhones and Androids. The free app, developed by local software startup GlobeSherpa, provides mobile ticket sales so [...]
At Google I/O, May 15-17, a Google team will place hundreds of Arduino-based environmental sensors around the conference to track things like temperature, noise levels, humidity and air quality in real-time, reports TechCrunch. Google’s Cloud Platform lets you build applications and websites, store data, and analyze data on Google’s infrastructure. Networked sensor technology is in [...]
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