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iPass Launches Individual US, Global Plan for Hotspots, US Plan for 3G

2008-03-31 05:00:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...hotspots. Starbucks chose AT&T as its new Wi-Fi operator in part for the ways in which AT&T would promote usage, including offering free service to a large swath of existing AT&T customers. Likewise, iPass's entry shows that there's a market for flat-rate services for predictable expectations that spans beyond plain Wi-Fi. 3G never looked...
 
Tags: global wi-fi, wi-fi, wi-fi operator, plain wi-fi, global wi-fi plan, ipass, cell service, service, wi-fi locations
 
 
 
 
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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
 
...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 several days ago on its "attwifi" SSID that has...
 
Tags: access, obtain free access, att, att hotspots, free access, hotspots, days ago, wi-fi hotspots, days
 
 
 
 
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Wayport Tops 10,000 McDonald's Locations

2008-04-29 09:25:32 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...hotspots in the U.S.; T-Mobile will likely be the second biggest with a couple thousand locations (Borders and FedEx/Kinko's tops among them). The No. 3 player is hard to figure. Panera I've been predicting for some time that media on the edge--music, videos, movies, and games stored on servers on the local Wi-Fi network--will be the next big...
 
Tags: wayport, wi-fi, comprehensive wi-fi plan, local wi-fi network, att service, service, wayport offers, network, wayport caches
 
 
 
 
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Free Wi-Fi for AT&T Laptop Mobile Broadband Subscribers

2008-05-20 09:32:57 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...hotspots. No hotspot operator likes to guarantee a particular local network speed, but I know that Wayport--which has or will build nearly all of the 17,000 locations in question here--aims for T-1 speed (1.5 Mbps each way) and quality (guaranteed uptime), depending on availability Windows laptop users with AT&T's Communication Manager...
 
Tags: wi-fi, free wi-fi service, free wi-fi, att, wi-fi hotspot, internal att memo, mobile broadband subscribers, att extends, laptop users
 
 
 
 
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Access AT&T Wi-Fi from T-Mobile Hotspots

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2008-04-10 10:28:37 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
T-Mobile's roaming deal with AT&T has obviously already kicked in: Astute reader Klaus Ernst let me know several days ago that the New York Starbucks locations were offering an AT&T login on the gateway page. I lackadaisically tried this out yesterday here in Seattle. AT&T has a ton of roaming partners, so it presents an interface that lets you...
 
Tags: york starbucks locations, starbucks, att, att login, boingo wireless account, days ago, t-mobile, easy access, gain access
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: General Commuter-Fi, Microsoft Bus-Fi, Nikon S52c

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2008-04-10 14:15:19 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...hotspots. The camera comes with six months of T-Mobile service. Pictures can be transferred to Flickr and social-networking sites via a feature at Picturetown
 
Tags: wi-fi planet runs, wi-fi, internal wi-fi, system, commuter bus system, service, online service, commuter vehicle wi-fi, free bus service
 
 
 
 
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Wee-Fi: First Starbucks with AT&T? Plus, L.I.-Fi, Panasonic Camera, Corpus Christi Decision

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2008-04-16 12:03:00 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
...hotspots in the U.S. As I have noted many times before, uploading and "emailing" photos via photo-sharing services from Wi-Fi-enabled cameras typically involves a downsampled or compressed image, and that level of degradation isn't noted in the widely marketed information about the camera Corpus Christi to reclaim network: The city council...
 
Tags: york times article, york times, starbucks, wi-fi network builder, wi-fi network, york, network, starbucks login banner, noted yesterday
 
 
 
 
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BT Encourages Businesses to Open Up Wi-Fi for OpenZone Expansion

2008-04-22 13:51:44 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...hotspots will be in places where people work and gather
 
Tags: business, business customers receive, openzone, business plan assures, hotspot service, public hotspot service, openzone subscription, network, critique fon
 
 
 
 
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Mobile Post: BT's New Clothes

2008-04-23 12:18:11 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
BT opens up its hotspot network, while maintaining control: Can BT, by controlling the hardware and network infrastructure, let businesses effectively become new hotspots in its OpenZone network? I discuss this and more in this mobile post
 
Tags: mobile post, network infrastructure, openzone network, businesses effectively, hotspot network, discuss, hotspots, hardware, control
 
 
 
 
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iPhone Gains 15 Minutes Free Wi-Fi in 28 Airports

2008-05-02 12:04:16 by Glennf in Wi-Fi Networking News
 
...hotspots that there's an audience there for commercial-based access MetroFi has famously declared free access to metro-scale services paid for by advertising to be unworkable; that may be so, given that they were the biggest proponent of it for a few years, and no other company followed them into that approach. However, metro-scale...
 
Tags: hotspot, hotspot ads involve, ads, boingo offers ads-for-access, boingo, free wi-fi, wi-fi, access, gain access