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BT Sets Wireless Cities Deadline
News BT has committed to completing its Wireless Cities project within three months. By March 2007, the telco will have Wi-Fi-enabled 12 city centres, including Birmingham, Liverpool, Westminster and Edinburgh.
[January 8, 2007, 14:33]
Whiteboard: How Cities Go Wireless
Articles More and more cities are using mesh network technology to provide wireless access. It serves smaller areas than traditional towers — offering reliability and redundancy, and solving bandwidth congestion.
[November 20, 2006, 15:21]
BT Expands Wireless Cities
News BT has expanded its Wireless Cities programme, which provides Wi-Fi connectivity in town centres across the UK. The telco's Wireless Cities initiative aims to install Wi-Fi connectivity in large outdoor urban areas.
[September 11, 2007, 17:25]
BT To Create Wireless Cities
News BT has begun rolling out wireless infrastructure in six UK cities as the first phase of a wider project, the company said on Wednesday. The first phase of the "12 Wireless Cities" plan is expected to be up and running by February 2007.
[May 17, 2006, 13:00]
BT Fusion Gets Wi-Fi Upgrade
News Instead of it just giving you a cheap rate call at home, it can now give you a cheaper call at all the 2,000 BT Openzone hot spots and all the Wireless Cities that we're developing as well," the spokesperson said.
[December 14, 2006, 12:49]
Tech Giants Push For Digital Cities
News Intel and several corporate partners launched a program on Thursday aimed at helping cities use wireless networks to better serve their citizens — and perhaps make a little cash on the side. Its goal is to give cities technical resources and...
[August 19, 2005, 9:50]
Finns Get City-wide Mesh Network
News This is a good example of an innovative public and private partnership that can be established to enable large-scale wireless access networks and bring entire cities online," said Jim Mooreland, vice president of worldwide sales for Strix, on...
[February 22, 2007, 16:24]
US Pushes Ahead With Citywide Wi-Fi
News Cities that have seen early success have been able to articulate very clearly to politicians and citizens how the network will be used and how it will benefit people," said Craig Settles, an independent wireless consultant.
[September 26, 2007, 17:59]
Intel's Wireless Future
News ZDNet UK caught up with Graylish at the Wireless Cities event in Cannes to discuss some of the issues facing the chipmaker, including battery life, the state of UK research and development and Intel's ongoing antitrust problems in Europe.
[December 4, 2006, 12:53]
Jumping From Satellite To Mobile And Back
News A quick new wireless data service combines the worldwide reach of satellite networks with a mobile setup ability to steer signals through the architectural canyons of big cities. Satellite phones work virtually anywhere in the world, but the...
[November 21, 2002, 9:20]
DIY Kit Powers WiMax Rollout
News By December this year, Tokyo-dwellers will be able to get multi-megabit broadband wherever they live or work in the city when a WiMax router goes on sale and other cities are tipped to follow suit. We are looking to repeat this with other partners...
[March 15, 2005, 14:35]
City-wide Wireless Broadband Coming To The UK?
News Tropos Networks is in discussions with council members in Birmingham, and other unnamed cities, about putting access points in lampposts to provide Wi-Fi throughout cities and suburban areas, the company revealed on Thursday.
[April 21, 2005, 16:10]
Heard Of Drive-by Hacking? Meet Drive-by Spamming
News This has already led to the practice of wardriving, where people drive around cities looking for insecure wireless LANs, and warchalking, where hackers drawing a chalk symbol on a wall or pavement to indicate the presence of a wireless networking...
[September 5, 2002, 16:54]
BT Creates Nationwide Wi-Fi Sharing Community
News We have built a public Wi-Fi network and 12 wireless cities already, but today we are saying to customers: let's build a Wi-Fi community together, which covers everywhere and serves everyone," said Patterson.
[October 4, 2007, 10:49]
Intel: Wi-Fi Could Have Emergency Role
News It works well in rural areas but suffers in cities, where a satellite signal gets lost among the steel and concrete buildings. EOTD performs well in cities, where cell antennas are plentiful, but not in rural areas.
[September 12, 2002, 14:34]
Nextel Turns Its Back On WiMax
News Nextel will also be competing with AT&T Wireless, which has a wireless broadband network in six cities and Sprint, which intends to launch high-speed Net services in two Midwest cities by year's end. Nextel says it no longer considers wireless...
[December 1, 2004, 7:55]
Sierra Wireless AirCard 880 GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSPA PC Card
Blog Swisscom has HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) available in most of the country now (except for the tiny village where I live.and is just starting to roll out HSUPA (High Speed Uplink Packet Access) in the large cities.
[January 22, 2008, 12:37]
Intel To Publicly Back Municipal Broadband
News Intel's position is partly in response to strong lobbying by Verizon Communications that helped lead to the passage of a law in Pennsylvania that prohibits cities from offering Internet access to their residents for a fee.
[January 12, 2005, 13:00]
Mobile WiMax Standard Ratified
News Many cities, such as Philadelphia and San Francisco, have already started working on plans that include using mesh Wi-Fi technology to blanket their cities. WiMax is considered a promising next-generation wireless technology because it supports...
[December 9, 2005, 12:30]
China Signs Up To WiMax Rollout
News Intel on Thursday said it has signed agreements with Chinese government officials in Dalian and Chengdu to develop networks in the cities for wireless broadband. Intel will use WiMax, an emerging "last mile" wireless technology based on the 802.16...
[June 11, 2004, 13:15]
