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Pipex to start WiMAX trials in UK
The times they are a-changin': Stratford-on-Avon is where the Old Bard wrote and staged his plays, but now it is the location of Airspan's facilities, where during the past few weeks Pipex was testing its WiMAX solution. The tests were successful and the company is set to offer its WiMAX services in three U.K. locations. Pipex is already in discussion with the authorities in these locations.
Graham Currier, Pipex's project coordinator, said the the tests showed that it was possible …
Russian WiMAX gains ground, if slowly
To Russia with love. As wireless technologies such as GPRS, EDGE, WiFi, and ADSL are gaining acceptance among Russian customers, WiMAX is slowly--very slowly--inching forward as an alternative wireless offering, according a Cellular News report. Here is a short list of Russian companies which have launched, or are about to launch, WiMAX services in the land of Tolstoy:
- Prestige-Internet (which is controlled by the Netherlands' Enforta BV) last month completed …
Free WiFi comes to NYC parks
Remember those missionaries who went to Africa to do good and did very well? Nokia shows us that one can do good and do well at the same time. The company is sponsoring free WiFi connection in 10 New York City parks in hot spots operated by New York start-up WiFi Salon. WiFi Salon will operate the hot spots under a concession agreement with the city which runs until October 2007, but which is renewable. It is not exactly that the announcement infuses new meaning into the adjective …
WiFi to the rescue
EarthLink has contracts in eight U.S. cities to provide municipal WiFi service, including hurricane-ravaged New Orleans. Although the network will not be ready until early September, local officials say that they have every intention to make the WiFi system a central component of the city's law enforcement, emergency, first response, and business continuity plans in the city. In other cities, too, the push for muni-WiFi has been supported in part as a means to make more efficient the …
ZigBee stirring
ZigBee has not been dormant, but what with the noise accompanying each and every announcement relating to WiMAX or WiFi, the forward march of this decidedly more modest technology has been conducted largely under the radar. We should take note, though, because a forward march there is. For example:
- Earlier this year announced its intentions of becoming an important ZigBee player by paying $200 million to acquire Chipcon, the first company to offer a 2.4 GHz 802.15.4-compliant …
SPOTLIGHT: Are WiFi users freeloaders and table-hogs?
Are WiFi users freeloaders and table-hogs?
Perhaps this topic will not be placed before the Oxford Union, but it is nonetheless a good discussion topic for your local debating society: Last week we reported that more and more coffee shop have concluded that offering free WiFi does bring them additional business; in fact, they see a worrisome trend: WiFi users bring their own sandwiches to the shop, and in addition to not ordering anything, they also occupy tables …
ALSO NOTED: Latest version of Alcatel's IP comm server; Free WiFi access at Japanese air base; and much more...
> Alcatel is showing the latest version of its Alcatel OmniPCX Office, its IP communication server for small-to-medium sized business. Report
> Planning to stay at the Kanto Lodge at the Yokota air base in Japan? Bring your laptop: They now offer free WiFi access. Report
> Queen City, AZ is going WiFi. …