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Member Review An SD Wi-Fi card is around £100 in the market now. So it will cost around £450 for someone like me who needs Wi-Fi support (and don't forget there still a monthly line rental charge from O2! This product already cost £350 with O2 voice + data tariff.
[November 21, 2003, 9:09]
UK's 'biggest' Muni Wi-Fi Network Goes Live
News Central zones have gained a full mesh network, whereby hundreds of nodes (fixed to lamp posts) simultaneously provide Wi-Fi access to passers-by and communicate with each other to pass information to and from the main Internet connection.
[August 1, 2006, 17:20]
First Wi-Fi Phones Get Industry Approval
News The Wi-Fi Alliance has given its backing to the first batch of mobile devices that offer support for both cellular and 802.11x networks. Five products have been awarded certification by the Alliance, which means they have been tested and found to...
[October 22, 2004, 17:25]
Wi-Fi Networks Kiss And Make Up
News From November, mobile workers whose company has taken out a subscription with either BT Openzone or T-Mobile will be able to use both Wi-Fi networks in the UK at no additional cost. The agreement helps to unify Britain's fragmented Wi-Fi market.
[October 21, 2004, 16:15]
Industry Backs Ofcom Call For Wi-Fi Boost
News Wireless broadband provider The Cloud has backed a proposal from Ofcom to allow higher-powered Wi-Fi transmitters in the UK. The Cloud is currently rolling out "hotzones" (large-scale Wi-Fi hotspots) across metropolitan areas such as Manchester and...
[July 28, 2006, 11:40]
Fear And Laziness Stunt Wi-Fi Growth
Talkback Wi-Fi Hotspot Access should be as easy as locating a coin pay phone. I think people are willing to pay a few coin for it.without submitting their private information like Credit Card or register to a lengthy contract)
[December 14, 2005, 4:18]
Wi-Fi Patent Claims - Here We Go Again
Blog Australia's government-backed research body, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has, for a long long time, been battling with the major Wi-Fi vendors over patents it holds in OFDM technology.
[September 24, 2007, 15:21]
McDonald's Beefs Up Wi-Fi Combo
News McDonald's is super-sizing its Wi-Fi trial with wireless networking start-up Cometa Networks. However, McDonald's sees providing Wi-Fi access as a way to sell more meals, not as a way into the Internet business.
[July 30, 2003, 11:20]
Linksys Soups-up Wi-Fi Offering
News Networking gear maker Linksys is incorporating a new technology that expands the range of its Wi-Fi products up to three times and the speed up to eight times, according to the company. The wireless-networking industry is working to create the next...
[January 5, 2005, 8:55]
GNER's On-board Wi-Fi Arrives Early
News East coast rail operator GNER is on target to fit out its entire fleet of trains with Wi-Fi by the end of this summer - eight months ahead of schedule. GNER has already kitted out all 30 of its electric trains with Wi-Fi and is now putting the...
[July 27, 2006, 10:45]
Wi-Fi Hotspot Phone Launched By Samsung
News It supports Wi-Fi as well as GSM and GPRS, so it can be used to make calls at a public hotspot, or over a home or office wireless network. UMA devices offer a potential threat to mobile operators, as users can avoid running up mobile bills by using...
[July 19, 2006, 16:20]
HTC Touch Gets 3G, Loses Wi-Fi
Blog Not that I'm wanting to harp on about public Wi-Fi's wobbly business case too much, but the latest news from Windows Mobile manufacturer HTC should raise an eyebrow or two. The company's just announced the sequel to the Touch (a.k.a.the iPh*ne...
[August 30, 2007, 11:54]
The Wheels Come Off Muni Wi-Fi
Blog Municipal Wi-Fi. And if it doesn't.then it goes the way of Chicago's planned muni Wi-Fi network, now scrapped because it wouldn't have drawn enough punters to be worth the expense. Cities like London are rolling out muni Wi-Fi predominantly as...
[August 29, 2007, 16:31]
Bluetooth And Wi-Fi Wireless Protocols: A Survey And A Comparison
White Papers Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) are two communication protocol standards that define a physical layer and a MAC layer for wireless communications within a short range with low power consumption. Bluetooth is oriented to connecting close devices...
[November 10, 2005, 23:00]
Intel Gets Behind 'Wi-Fi On Steroids'
News Intel was the powerhouse that drove Wi-Fi towards ubiquity. Now it wants to do the same with WiMax, the long-range, high bandwidth technology that has been popularly described as "Wi-Fi on steroids". We introduced a radio component called Ofer-R...
[July 24, 2006, 13:00]
When In Roam: Openzone Gets Access To US Wi-Fi
News Wi-Fi operator BT Openzone has gone transatlantic by agreeing a roaming deal with American operator Airpath Wireless. BT announced on Wednesday that the deal will give its subscribers access to 350 of Airpath's US-based Wi-Fi hot spots from September.
[July 23, 2003, 12:32]
Italy Aggressively Pursues Wi-Fi And WiMAX
White Papers Under new policies and initiatives from its Ministry of Communications, Italy is turning to Wi-Fi and WiMAX to make broadband Internet access more universally available throughout the country. By utilizing both Wi-Fi and WiMAX to augment existing...
[November 17, 2005, 23:00]
Will Patience Create A Wi-Fi Winner?
News Wi-Fi certainly challenges some assumptions that people have about 3G. When you walk into a Starbucks three years from now you're going to have multiple Wi-Fi devices on your person. In late 2001, Dayton founded Boingo Wireless to sell Wi-Fi access...
[September 23, 2003, 13:15]
Qualcomm: 3G Will Beat Wi-Fi
News Breaking ranks with other mobile phone industry leaders, Qualcomm chief executive Irwin Jacobs said on Tuesday that mobile phone providers don't need to spice up their mix of offerings with access to Wi-Fi networks.
[March 19, 2003, 9:58]
The Cloud Launches Its First Wi-Fi Hotzone
News Enabling these content services is something that Wi-Fi can do. Wi-Fi networks tend to offer superior access speeds to those available using 3G services. Users of BT Openzone, O2, SkypeZones, Vonage, iPass and Nintendo Wi-Fi are able to use the...
[July 18, 2006, 12:40]
