http://www.dailywireless.org Daily news on Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX, Community LANs and Cellular applications Fri, 09 May 2008 20:42:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sweden has concluded their auction of 2.6 GHz spectrum by the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). Auctioning 190 MHz in the in the 2.6 GHz band raised a total of SEK 2.1 billion (USD 346 million). Five companies won licenses. Intel Capital acquired one block of 50 MHz TDD ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/09/7747/ Cablevision, the 5th largest cable provider in the USA, announced today that it will build its own municipal wireless network, using Wi-Fi. The announcement came one day after Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced their joint venture with WiMax operators Sprint and Clearwire. Cablevision, with most of its customers in ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/08/7746/ AT&T's iPhone website has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to "more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots", including Starbucks. Last week AT&T had quietly begun offering iPhone users access to their Wi-Fi hotspots for free. Then the service was abruptly turned off. AT&T has remained quiet about this ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/08/7745/ MySpace has embraced data portability, and partnered With Yahoo, Ebay and Twitter, says TechCrunch. MySpace is announcing data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships in a project called MySpace “Data Availability”. The key goal is to allow users to maintain key personal data at sites like MySpace and ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/08/7744/ NAVTEQ announced today that Verizon Wireless has selected their Traffic Mobile application to power its new traffic service available today on its newest VZ Navigator (Version 4) service. Verizon Wireless is the first wireless provider to feature NAVTEQ Traffic Mobile, enabling customers to access live traffic data on their mobile devices ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/08/7743/ VoIP Now has created a listing of Top 100 Telecom Industry Blogs. It includes categories of VoIP, Corporate Blogs, Mobile Blogs, Wireless Blogs, Outside the U.S., Niche, Toys and Gadgets. Check it out and let Jimmy Atkinson, editor of VoIP Now, know if he missed any obvious ones. http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/07/7742/ Looking for a hotel where the WiFi is definitely not free, possibly not working and perhaps is not even WiFi? Yes, it's time for the Worst WiFi Hotels of 2008. It's WiFi Week at Hotel Chatter. They started off with the Best WiFi Hotels of 2008, perhaps not as entertaining but ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/07/7741/ Earthlink says it may shut down Philadelphia's citywide Wi-Fi tomorrow if the city isn’t able to reach a takeover agreement. Earthlink, which stopped accepting new customers last week, has given the city until tomorrow to come up with a plan to take over the system or it could begin to take ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/07/7740/ The Internet Engineering Task Force has kicked off a new effort that could deliver a key building block for wireless sensor networks, says EE Times. The Routing Over Low-power and Lossy Networks (ROLL) group aims to define a standard for Internet Protocol as early as next summer. Sensor networks may be ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/07/7739/ It's official. Sprint and Clearwire announced this morning they will form a nation-wide WiMAX network, with partners Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel, Google and cable operator Bright House Networks who are expected to kick in $3.2 billion to help finance the venture. The deal (pdf), announced on Wednesday, will provide funding ... http://www.dailywireless.org/2008/05/07/7738/