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SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Tropos Networks, the proven leader in delivering ubiquitous, metro-scale, Wi-Fi mesh network systems, and The Cloud, the largest hot spot operator in Europe, today announced a collaboration to deliver metro-scale mesh networks to city centers in the UK and Europe. The partnership will deliver broadband wireless networks, with seamless subscriber mobility, expanding The Cloud’s already industry-leading Wi-Fi footprint.

The partnership and subsequent technology expansion will allow The Cloud and its customers to deliver innovative mobile broadband applications to customers over large areas. For the first time, service providers operating on The Cloud’s infrastructure will be able to deliver metro-scale value-added services such as mobile internet access and wireless voice services, remote wireless video monitoring, automated meter reading (AMR) and multiple public safety applications, among others.

“We are very excited to be Read more

CALABASAS, Calif. — Strix Systems, the leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, today announced that Accatel, Inc., an international carrier based in New York, has partnered with Nextel Telecom (Bangladesh) to deploy a citywide wireless mesh network in Chittagong, Bangladesh. The network is based on Strix’s Access/One Network Outdoor Wireless System (OWS), a multi-radio, multi-channel, and multi-RF mesh solution that delivers the highest-capacity mesh system available today. The Strix network will provide phone and Internet service to residential and business customers in Chittagong.

Accatel is now installing 90 Strix OWS nodes for the initial network deployment, which will support 10,000 voice subscriber lines in an

eight-square-mile area of Chittagong, a port city of 3.5 million people that is the commercial capital of Bangladesh. Stage 2 of the deployment, which will roll out 6-12 months after Stage 1, will add 15-20,000 voice Read more

BATON ROUGE, La. — Y-Tel International, Inc.

(OTC Bulletin Board: YTLI), a provider of telecommunications, VoIP and Wi-Fi services and devices, announced today it is developing a new business model for FY

2006 enabling the company to emerge as a leading provider in the Wi-Fi Internet Service industry. Mr. John Conroy, CEO, commented, “This new strategy will lay the framework for launching our retail products. With the network deployed in selected cities around the country, we can roll out various voice solutions within our own Wi-Fi network, such as Wi-Fi phones, and ATA devices. The key to success is the technology utilized within the network.”

Y-Tel has been testing a mesh network in Nacogdoches, Texas for several months and concluded mesh is not the best solution for providing wireless broadband internet services.

Mr. Conroy stated, “We have discovered a much better solution utilizing non line of sight (NLOS) wireless technology Read more