Delta Airlines is installing Wi-Fi on all its domestic flights. It will be available on more than 330 Delta aircraft in 2009, the most expansive inflight broadband offering of any U.S. air carrier.
Aircell will install the company’s Mobile Broadband Network, Gogo, to enable Wi-Fi enabled devices, such as laptops, smartphones and PDAs, to access the [...]
A proposed ban on in-flight calling has now passed its first major hurdle in Congress, getting approval from the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee in a voice vote on Thursday.
The “Halting Airplane Noise to Give Us Peace” (HANG UP) bill would make permanent the current ban on in-flight cellphone use. It would also put [...]
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 [...]
Icomera, a Swedish supplier of Internet connectivity to trains, is buying Moovera Networks, based in the UK. The move should create the largest provider of in-vehicle Internet access technology – encompassing trains, buses, coaches, trucks and ferries.
In 2008, Moovera Networks’ Moovbox M Series Mobile Broadband Gateway was selected by Swebus Express, Arriva Scandinavia, Trent Barton, [...]
Cities have gone wireless for Safety and Surveillance, observes NPR. Cities are mapping out vast wireless zones to create safety nets, says National Public Radio’s Joshua Brockman. Public internet access has nothing to do with it.
Oklahoma City rolled out a municipal network covering 555-square-miles last month. It links hundreds of video surveillance cameras across [...]
Aircell which delivers WiFi on airplanes, via its Gogo service, today announced its intention to base its airplane-to-ground link on Long Term Evolution (LTE).
Aircell uses an exclusive FCC frequency license to provide a cellular data channel to airplanes. It currently uses CDMA EVDO Rev A to deliver an effective data rate of more than [...]
Oregon’s Westside Express Service (WES) will provide Wi-Fi for regional Commuter Rail, according to John Fall, Communications Coordinator for TriMet Community Affairs in Portland.
The $117.3 million commuter rail system will begin running in October or November, connecting the Beaverton Transit Center, on the West side of Portland with five commuter rail stations along [...]
Charles Avenue Henderson claims to want nothing more than to relax in rural West Virginia with his beloved wife Mary Jane and live the genteel life of a successful bed-and-breakfast proprietor.
– Purple Dots
Gizmodo says San Francisco will convert 6,000 of their 24,000 metered parking spaces into “smart” spots in a $23 million program called [...]
Portland’s Westside Express Service (WES) is the first commuter rail line in Oregon and among only a handful of suburb-to-suburb commuter lines in the country. It will be offering free Wi-Fi when it starts operations this fall.
The $117.3 million commuter rail system will begin running in October or November, connecting the Beaverton [...]
The National Emergency Technology Guard (NETGuard) mobilizes a corps of volunteers with technology experience who could help out after a disaster. Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon discusses the effort with NPR (audio). It is funded by the Department of Homeland Security.
NET Guard teams may assist local communities in temporarily reconstituting voice, data, and other [...]
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