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Wee-Fi: Research on Digital Divide; NYC May Opt for Fiber for Housing Projects

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2008-07-29 14:40:02 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Participate in a research survey on the role of wireless to shrink the digital divide: Gwen Shaffer, a Temple University (Phila.) doctoral student, is looking for responses from many kinds of stakeholders in building networks that have a purpose, at least in part, to extend Wi-Fi access. She notes that this could include community networks,...
 
Tags: networks, include community networks, digital divide, wireless networks, wireless, incumbent cable operators, extend wi-fi access, broadband advisory committee, conduct in-depth interviews
 
 
 
 
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Silicon Valley's Wi-Fi Situation

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2008-07-09 10:11:40 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
The Palo Alto Weekly exhaustively examines its city's and Silicon Valley's state of public Wi-Fi: The paper looks at the failures of various networks around the valley, the current state of Wi-Fi plans, and how a non-profit, WiFi101, is building (with a grant) a new effort that could be a model for how to offer free service for those without...
 
Tags: valley, silicon valley, palo alto, mentions palo alto, city, city incorrectly calls, offer free service, fiber, wi-fi plans
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: Topless Meetings; Projects-Fi; Boston Launch; Rural-Fi; Chrysler-Fi; Wi-Fi Chip-Fi

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2008-03-31 15:53:51 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
No laptops allowed: So-called topless (nice sexy term for "laptop-less") meetings are coming into vogue? It's hard to tell if it's a trend, but to judge by conferences I've attended, no one pays attention to anything any more. Banning laptops might be an advantage to promoting shorter meetings--people will be jonesing so hard for their 'top that...
 
Tags: wi-fi, chrysler, 440m wi-fi chipsets, service, ground service, pilot project, project, term wi-fi, push service
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Phila., Minneapolis, St. Louis Park (Minn.), Texas, Foster City (Calif.), Naperville (Ill.), Chehalis and Centralia (Wash.), Cambria C

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2008-06-11 14:33:41 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Philadelphia may find operator for Wi-Fi network: The AP reports that the City of Brotherly Love's Wi-Fi network isn't yet down, or down for the count. While it's scheduled to be flipped off tomorrow (you can read whatever you like into the phrase "flipped off"), the city is talking to a party it won't disclose about the networks future....
 
Tags: city, big-city network, residents oppose wi-fi, wi-fi, mount wi-fi radios, wi-fi hotzones, wi-fi network, network, network hardware
 
 
 
 
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Metro Round-Up: Delays and New Beginnings

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2008-06-23 10:54:43 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
Milwaukee, Wisc., network likely won't expand: Midwest Fiber Networks spent $700,000 to build a pilot network that they can't fund citywide. They want anchor tenants for the $20m network, and can't get the city signed on. The company will continue running the network, though, and is looking into alternatives. I always thought a fiber provider...
 
Tags: network, 20m network, test network, pilot network, network assets, public-safety network, downtown network, city, city access
 
 
 
 
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AT&T, Starbucks Make Rollout Start Official

2008-04-25 10:02:47 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
Although a San Antonio PR guy spotted the AT&T trucks at a Starbucks last week , this press release makes it official: AT&T and Starbucks co-announced today that San Antonio--AT&T's corporate HQ town--is the first city to be unwired with AT&T's flavor of Wi-Fi in Starbucks stores. Other markets will follow this year, although, as before, there's...
 
Tags: starbucks, att, att trucks, starbucks stores, san antonio, t-mobile login page, gain free access, markets, press release
 
 
 
 
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AT&T Gives iPhones Free Hotspot Access

2008-04-30 20:46:59 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
It's not confirmed by the telecom giant, but several people have been able to replicate it: If you own an iPhone, you can log in at an AT&T hotspot or a Starbucks through their AT&T portal link (upper right corner of the T-Mobile screen, and soon to be a unique SSID), enter your phone number, and have free access. This is nifty, and not...
 
Tags: link, att portal link, att, neighborhood starbucks tomorrow, starbucks, att hotspot, telecom giant, free service, million dsl
 
 
 
 
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iPhone Wi-Fi Hotspot Access Now in AT&T Plan Details

2008-05-08 09:39:38 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
It's on, it's off, it's on again: Access to AT&T hotspots is back on again, at least in the fine print, as the company now includes the statement that all iPhone plans in the U.S. include "access to AT&T's more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots, including Starbucks." (Click the Plans tab at top to see that text AT&T appeared to have flipped a switch...
 
Tags: access, obtain free access, att, att hotspots, free access, hotspots, days ago, wi-fi hotspots, days
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: iPass Flies; Riverside (Calif.) Approaches

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2008-05-13 10:15:22 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
iPass announces roaming deal with Aircell Gogo in-flight network: Gogo isn't yet aloft, though it's well into testing, but iPass has a contract in hand to allow its subscribers broadband access. The press release sidesteps cost, but an iPass spokesperson clarified for me that while pricing hasn't yet been set, iPass expects to charge no...
 
Tags: ipass, free, ipass expects, premium ad-free service, network, service, trial network, ipass announces, riverside network
 
 
 
 
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BART-Fi Moves Closer: Negotiation Under Way

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2008-05-23 15:18:12 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
WiFi Rail gets a nod from the Bay Area Rapid Transportation (BART) authority's board: The board of the giant SF bay people mover has given a kind of tacit go-ahead for negotiations with WiFi Rail , a company that has been testing a unique form of delivering Wi-Fi using coaxial cable as antenna extensions . Cooper Lee, founder and CEO, told me...
 
Tags: bart, wifi rail, bart service, wi-fi,