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FierceWiFi May 16, 2006
- Editor's Corner
- McCaw set to disrupt wireless landscape
- BT rolls out fixed-mobile convergence services
- , Nokia bet on muni-WiFi
- Fon eying Argentina deal
- Altera, Sequans show first 802.16e-2005 base station
- SPOTLIGHT: Fixed-line telecom: It only looks dead
- ALSO NOTED: TerraTec shows WiFi Internet radio; Maxisat selects Ruckus Wireless WiFi system; and much more...
Editor's Corner
You will notice that this issue of FierceWiFi is arriving in your inbox on Tuesday rather than Wednesday. The reason? This week we are launching WiMAX Watch, a new semi-monthly supplement to FierceWiFi. WiMAX Watch will be mailed to you every other Thursday, starting this week, and in order not to crowd your inbox we have moved FierceWiFi …
McCaw set to disrupt wireless landscape
What is past is prologue. Last Thursday Craig McCaw's Clearwire filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to go public. The IPO is expected to raise $400 million and the company says it will use the money to acquire radio spectrum. The timing of the filing and the announcement mean that the small Kirkland, WA-based company is planning on being one of the important bidders in the June 29 auction by the Federal Communication Commission of wireless spectrum. The FCC has auctioned off …
BT rolls out fixed-mobile convergence services
There will always be an England. BT will begin offering converged fixed-mobile (FMC) services to large enterprise customers in the UK and several other countries. Employees in businesses which sign up for the service will be able to use one phone for mobile and office calls. The service is an application of BT's 21st Century Network (21CN), a next-generation network being rolled out in the UK and which is set to expand to global markets as well.
The new service is called Enterprise …
, Nokia bet on muni-WiFi
Mark Twain said, "Find out where the people are going and get there first." This is precisely what and Nokia are doing. Today the two companies launch a version of Nokia's handheld Internet browsing device containing 's Talk service, which allows for voice connections and instant messaging. It is an upgrade to a Nokia-first: Last year Nokia came out with its Nokia 770 Internet Tablet, the company's first mobile device which was not also a cellular …
Fon eying Argentina deal
Fon is in negotiations to provide free broadband wireless across Buenos Aires. Alejandro Piscitelli, the head of Argentinian education portal Educ.ar, is quoting Fon founder Martin Varsavsky as suggesting that 50,000 to 100,000 Fon hot spots (or Foneros) across the city would achieve this goal. The article notes that this is not going to be an easy project on that scale. Note that Piscitelli is also involved with the MIT project for affordable developing world laptops for …
Altera, Sequans show first 802.16e-2005 base station
One sparrow does not a spring make, but sparrows do have a habit of showing up just as spring is around the corner. So it is with Altera and Sequans Communications. The two companies are showing the first mobile WiMAX base station modem chip set supporting the recently ratified 802.16e-2005 broadband wireless access standard. Consisting of three Stratix II FPGAs, the Sequans SQN2110 modem chip set provides wireless OEMs with a ready-made solution for developing mobile WiMAX …
SPOTLIGHT: Fixed-line telecom: It only looks dead
It only looks dead
Fixed-line telecommunication is not dying. It only looks dead. Telkom, a leading South African telecom, is ramping up its investment in new infrastructure in an effort to fend off new rivals and take back some of the market share it has lost to the mobile operators. "It would be foolhardy for anyone to think we are sitting here waiting to die," says CTO Thami Msimango "The fight is on." Telkom will award a number of big tenders in the next few weeks …
ALSO NOTED: TerraTec shows WiFi Internet radio; Maxisat selects Ruckus Wireless WiFi system; and much more...
> TerraTec is showing its Noxon 2, a WiFi Internet radio and network audio player. Release
> New Rochelle, NY, will offer an outdoor wireless Internet network in the city's downtown. Report
> Farther north, the city of Poughkeepsie installed a high-speed WiFi network to connect police …