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BT Woos Small Firms With Backups And Wireless
News The launch of Datasure came just days after BT launched a product allowing a small firm to set up a wireless LAN within an hour. BT is targeting small businesses with two new products launched in the last week -- a data backup service, and a...
[December 8, 2003, 17:15]
Wireless Broadband Firm Takes Aim At BT
News Its existing products could still appeal to the small enterprise market as there's no limit to the number of PCs that can be connected to the services via a LAN. Pacific Century Cyberworks has finally launched the first phase of the rollout of a...
[May 6, 2004, 12:55]
BT Fears Wireless Security PR Crisis
News In a keynote speech at the Wireless LAN Event in London on Wednesday, BT's chief executive for wireless broadband, Chris Clark, said that media reports highlighting the dangers of wireless may deter people from using the technology.
[April 20, 2005, 12:15]
BT Starts Selling Extricom WLAN Kit
News Extricom's Interference-Free Enterprise Wireless LAN System will become part of BT's mobility and convergence suite, the companies announced on Wednesday. BT iNet, the telco's LAN and IP telephony subsidiary, is to start selling Extricom equipment...
[June 22, 2007, 11:59]
UK Set For Public Wi-Fi Boom
News In launching its first public wireless LAN hot spots on Monday, BT is helping to move the UK towards a day when consumers will be able to enjoy high-speed wireless access to the Internet in coffee shops, railway stations and hotels.
[June 24, 2002, 17:34]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog And then if the phone is given a mobile number but is really in the office on the LAN, the caller pays full mobile tariff with the company paying for the infrastructure to deliver the wireless bit. It is - or will be, when launched -- a Wi-Fi/GSM...
[May 12, 2006, 18:00]
Intel To Expand BT Broadband Range
News Intel is to release a range of Ethernet ADSL modems and wireless LAN gateways for use with BTopenworld's broadband products, ZDNet UK has learned. The company will also offer a wireless LAN gateway, which will connect directly to the ADSL line and...
[March 1, 2002, 14:01]
Coexistence Analysis Of Bluetooth And Cellular UMTS In The 2500-2690 MHz Band
White Papers The 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific, and Medical) band is available for all kinds of unlicensed technologies such as BlueTooth (BT) and Wireless LAN (WLAN). The combination of BT and GSM within one mobile phone has become widely accepted, and...
[January 1, 1970, 0:59]
02 Shows Its Hand For 3G Services
News It brings together GPRS, 3G and wireless LAN connectivity, through deals with The Cloud and BT Openzone. While various operators have talked about data cards that also integrate silicon for wireless LAN - or Wi-Fi - connectivity, most are for now...
[September 28, 2004, 12:25]
Analyst Unimpressed By Fixed-mobile Convergence
News Vestergaard took issue in particular with BT's Fusion service, which routes mobile calls over a firm's wireless LAN and out onto the public telephone network via the company's own telephone exchange, or PBX.
[November 22, 2006, 12:28]
IPass Sees Surge In Wi-Fi Use
News Ken Greene, director of iPass's technical consultancy, said: "The main factors [behind the rise in usage] are the proliferation of the technology.wireless cards are now integrated in most laptops and Wi-Fi hotspots are becoming much more...
[August 23, 2006, 16:25]
2010: A Broadband Odyssey
News ZDNet UK caught up with Brian Condon, who was appointed as ABC's first chief executive in November 2003, at the Wireless LAN Event in London this week. BT then ADSL-enabled the local exchange, but instead of disbanding the community group became a...
[April 8, 2004, 16:30]
Dell Notebooks Go Wireless
News Companies will need to budget at least £6,000 for installation services -- connecting the LAN to the GPRS network -- and £2,000 for the optimisation software. At the client end, in the mobile user's notebook, is a Dell TrueMobile 5000 PC Card (made...
[February 12, 2002, 15:48]
Proxim Offers DIY Wi-Fi Hot Spot
News The company is repeating the wireless LAN it built in Barcelona for Microsoft's TechEd exhibition in July, this time with 30 access points and about 3,000 users. Proxim leads the enterprise wireless LAN market with a 36 percent share in the first...
[November 19, 2002, 14:05]
MmO2 To Roll Out Wi-Fi Across UK
News British mobile phone operator mmO2 said on Tuesday it was planning to roll out wireless LAN services across the UK, as it reported steady growth in mobile data revenues. The operator said it was planning to enable more than 1,000 Wi-Fi wireless LAN...
[July 2, 2003, 8:53]
Government Clears Way For Public Wi-Fi Hot Spots
News The decision does not affect 802.11a, a faster wireless LAN technology than 802.11b, which operates at the 5GHz band and is expected to replace 802.11b in the long term.a equipment has recently been cleared for use in the UK, but Europe-wide...
[June 11, 2002, 14:36]
Government In Cloud Cuckoo Land Over Broadband
News It may find itself overtaken by cable or wireless LAN. BT claims it is not technically possible for it to do the same. He thinks neither the government nor BT -- which he believes will be charged with delivering broadband Britain -- have fully...
[April 10, 2001, 13:17]
UK Gets More Wi-Fi Hot Spots As T-Mobile Expands Starbucks Deal
News We don't want to force people to be T-Mobile subscriber to use wireless LAN service. The prices of both significantly undercut some of the rates offered by BT and Megabeam, Britain's leading commercial Wi-Fi operators.
[March 6, 2003, 13:41]
Broadband Town Will Be Blank Slate
News This money has been split between the various UK regional development agencies, and will be spent on a wide range of different initiatives -- from providing high-speed Internet links to business parks in the East of England to looking into the...
[March 20, 2002, 13:27]
UK Pubs Get Wi-Fi
News A company best-known for connecting machines in bingo halls, motorway service stations and bookies is launching a 3,000-site Wi-Fi network in the UK, the biggest roll out of the wireless LAN technology so far in Europe.
[March 6, 2003, 15:38]
