Archive for May, 2009
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iPhone Invades UK
Forget foot and mouth disease. Forget the run on British banks. Real news has hit the U.K. — the iPhone has been unveiled.
Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) revealed today that O2, the U.K. mobile operator subsidiary of Telefónica O2 Europe plc , will be its exclusive carrier partner for the iPhone in the U.K., ending months of speculation. (See O2 Gets UK iPhone, Goodbye, i-mode… Hello, iPhone?, iPhone Fever Hits Europe, Apple-Vodafone Euro Deal Imminent?, 3G iPhone in Early 2008?, ... more
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Phones Go Boingo
Traditional cellular carriers aren’t the only service providers reporting more data traffic on their networks from smartphones. Some public-access hotspot networks are also noticing more people accessing the Internet via the new breed of flashier, WiFi-enabled handsets.
Boingo Wireless Inc. CEO David Hagan tells Unstrung that WiFi devices now represent 15 percent of overall usage across the aggregated WiFi networks that the firm supports. In years past, they represented just 1 perce... more
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AIM Intros Muni WiFi
Advanced Infrastructure Management, LLC (AIM) announced today the launch of its municipal WiFi division at the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities Convention.
“The launch of our municipal division illustrates our commitment to the unique Wifi infrastructure needs found in cities and towns around the country,” said David Ziembicki, President of AIM. “The opportunity to level the playing field and offer high-value services at lower prices is a win-win - for re... more
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Meraki Expands in SF
A community Wi-Fi movement is taking place in the urban neighborhoods of San Francisco. Today more than 6,500 San Francisco residents and business owners concentrated in the Mission, Haight, and Alamo Square neighborhoods are tapping into a growing free Wi-Fi network with the help of Meraki. Compared to a top-down municipal Wi-Fi approach, Meraki takes a truly unique and innovative bottoms-up approach by empowering individuals to connect and build a Wi-Fi community.
The new San Francisco ... more
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Golden Opens Moscow Shop
Golden Telecom, Inc. (”Golden Telecom” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: GLDN), the leading provider of integrated telecommunications and Internet services in the largest population areas throughout Russia and other countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (”CIS”), announces the opening of its retail outlet in Moscow.
In line with the Company’s strategy to expand to the consumer market, Golden Telecom’s retail outlet opens in Moscow - Ma... more
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Strix Meshes With Public Safety
Strix Systems, the leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking and the equipment provider for Brookline, Mass., and Galaxy Internet Services, is participating in the launch of the city’s multi-use first-responder Wi-Fi network at a wire cutting event in Brookline on Wednesday, July 18, 2007.
The network is one of the first combined public safety and commercial networks in the U.S. to incorporate the high-power 4.9 GHz frequency band for public safety services. Brookline and ... more
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KT Deploys Strix
Strix Systems, the leader in high-performance wireless mesh networking, today announced that KT Corp., the largest high-speed internet operator in Korea, is deploying Strix’s Access/One(R) Network Outdoor Wireless Systems (OWS). The Strix wireless mesh network enables seamless mobile access to KT’s NESPOT Wi-Fi internet service; NESPOT integrates fixed-line and wireless services, offering wireless internet access to laptops, PDAs, and homes. In this first wave of deployments, Strix d... more
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Surf’s Up in Belgium
free-hotspot.com and KMC announce today that they have partnered to provide FREE Wi-Fi access on the beach front at Knokke. This new service will provide the beach going public with wireless Internet access for 2 kilometres along the Knokke coastline – all at no charge. The FREE Wi-Fi will be available until the end of September, at which time the City of Knokke may decide to make the service permanent.
The free Wi-Fi service will be supported by sponsors and users will be asked to watc... more
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WeFi Simplifies WiFi
WeFi, the social WiFi community, today announced the opening of its BETA offering to the general public around the globe. To date, WeFi has been available only by invitation to a limited number of test users in selected markets. Building the world’s first free, social WiFi community, WeFi helps mobile consumers find the best available wireless connection quickly. WeFi maps provide users with a dynamic, constantly updated view of available free WiFi spots, as well as the location and profil... more
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Festivals Add WiFi
Xirrus, Inc., the only provider of high-performance, long-range Wi-Fi products, and Wireless Events Ltd. announced today successful Wi-Fi network deployments at several music and arts festivals across the United Kingdom providing voice and data services throughout the venue for the artists, production staff, merchants and attendees. These include the Glastonbury Festival, Latitude, The Big Chill, Rise and many others. Deployments are also planned at Leeds and Reading Carling festivals and the V2... more
