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FierceWiFi February 1, 2006
- Philly finalizes muni-WiFi plan
- NTT to begin testing WiMax
- Atheros to benefit from China's protectionist move
- TeliaSonera expands Nordic region presence
- Metric: VoWLAN phone market grew 76%
- SPOTLIGHT: Switch to VoWLAN? Not so fast
- ALSO NOTED: Firetide, AWA roll out commercial WLAN in Spain; MetroFi to offer free WiFi in the Valley; and much more...
Philly finalizes muni-WiFi plan
The age of muni-WiFi is here. Yes, we already have small towns across the country offering WiFi to residents, typically in downtown and tourist areas, but they are not Philadelphia. The City of Brotherly Love has reached an agreement with EarthLink to turn large parts of the city into a huge WiFi hotspot. The contract calls for the company to own the 135-sq.-mi. network, with EarthLink to pay the city for rights to locate transmitters on city light posts. Details of the 10-year contract …
NTT to begin testing WiMax
NTT, Japan's largest telecommunications group, will begin testing WiMax technology next month. Various NTT groups will work together on trials of WiMax technology. The tests will examine issues such as actual throughput and potential interference to other services. This may--emphasis on may--not be good news for 3G. Recently, NTT DoCoMo said it would push the 3G technology WCDMA to faster speeds. The plan was to have this Super 3G service offer data transmission rates as high as …
Atheros to benefit from China's protectionist move
They say that when you have relations with an 800-lb. gorilla, you stop not when you want to, but when the gorilla does. My friends who have business relations in China say this more or less captures their experience, too. The Chinese government will announce that local organizations receiving funding from the Chinese Ministry of Information will have to buy wireless equipment based on an indigenous wireless network standard. Non-compliant vendors may find themselves unable to sell their …
TeliaSonera expands Nordic region presence
A year ago, a bridge over the Baltic Sea connecting Sweden and Denmark was opened. A good thing, too, as business relations between the two countries become even more intimate. The latest development is that Swedish operator TeliaSonera has acquired Danish WLAN company YesIHotspot, in the process cementing its leadership position in Scandinavia. The Swedish company now owns 180 hotspots and a nationwide EDGE network in Denmark, placing it in a good position to become a big wireless …
Metric: VoWLAN phone market grew 76%
The worldwide WiFi phone market grew 76 percent between 2004 and 2005 to $102.5 million. It is projected to more than double in 2006 as enterprises continue to deploy VoWLANs (see "Today's Spotlight"), according to Infonetics Research's latest report. Healthy VoWLAN growth is projected through 2009, when WiFi phone revenue will reach nearly $1.9 billion. VoWLAN will initially be an enterprise application but will soon become popular with consumers, too and has potential for enormous …
SPOTLIGHT: Switch to VoWLAN? Not so fast
The past two decades have seen a revolution in telephony, infusing new meaning into the concept "any time, anywhere" connectivity. Businesses know they can increase productivity and improve customer service with mobile voice communications within their facilities, and most companies have long used cellular phones to deliver this capability. As WLANs have solved most of their security and QoS problems and begun to take hold in the corporate sector, enterprises have started to …
ALSO NOTED: Firetide, AWA roll out commercial WLAN in Spain; MetroFi to offer free WiFi in the Valley; and much more...
> Mesh networking specialist Firetide and Spanish WLAN operator AWA will roll out commercial WLAN and mesh networks for voice and data services in Spain. Release
> Mountain View, CA-based MetroFi will offer free WiFi connections across multiple Silicon Valley cities. …