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FierceWiFi June 15, 2005
- Editor's Corner
- BT launches world's first fixed/mobile phone
- Sony Ericsson shows WiFi-3G combo card
- Samsung demos WiMax, WiBro products
- Proxim, RIP
- Pronto, BelAir aid low-cost WiFi networks in Tex.
- SPOTLIGHT: Defcon
- ALSO NOTED: T-Mobile claims 450K paid users; WiTopia.Net launches outsourced 802.1x support; and much more...
Editor's Corner
Two announcements in which you may be interested:
First, In case you missed the letter from my colleague Stephen Wellman, I'd like to invite you to join us at an exclusive FierceWiFi executive summit on wireless VoIP. The event, wVoIP 2005, is designed to help you seize the emerging market opportunities presented by the convergence of …
BT launches world's first fixed/mobile phone
BT this week became the world's first operator to offer its customers combined fixed and mobile phone service. The Fusion device works as a mobile phone when the customer is walking or driving, but switches automatically to a BT Broadband line when the customer is indoors. In addition to the ease and convenience, customers also save a lot of money: Fusion allows calls to UK landline numbers to be charged at BT landline rates, which are 5.5p for up to an hour for calls during off-peak …
Sony Ericsson shows WiFi-3G combo card
Sony Ericsson added to its line of wireless PC Cards with a card which brings WiFi and 3G mobile phone connectivity into the same unit. The company says that its GC99 card is among the very first such cards in the world, although a couple of other companies -- Belgium's Option, for one -- make similar claims. Sony Ericsson's card boasts a low-profile antenna housing and support for both 802.11g and 802.11a APs. In addition to WiFi and 3G, the GC99 offers regular GSM (quad-band) dial-up …
Samsung demos WiMax, WiBro products
Samsung has demonstrated several WiMax and WiBro products, signaling its intention of becoming a major WiMax player (in fact, Samsung first successfully demonstrated WiBro services with mobility in November 2004). By the fourth quarter of 2005, the company will unveil Mobile WiMax systems and terminals, including Access Control Router (ACR), Radio Access Station (RAS), PCMCIA cards for laptops, and mobile handsets. WiBro, a South Korean version of WiMax that will enable the world's first …
Proxim, RIP
Proxim has been an innovative and interesting company. Always a bit ahead of the herd, its insights include early support for 5 GHz and 802.11a, point-to-multipoint broadband wireless, homeRF, enterprise-wide WiFi AP centralized management and more. Alas, the company's creative, restless spirit has not been matched by commercial success, and it is closing its doors. It has entered into an asset purchase agreement with Moseley Associates, which will acquire substantially all of Proxim's …
Pronto, BelAir aid low-cost WiFi networks in Tex.
Pronto Networks and BelAir Networks will partner to offer service providers solutions to allow them to deploy complete large scale wireless networks. The companies' first joint deployment will cover the downtown/Alamo Plaza area of San Antonio. The joint offering combines the BelAir100 and BelAir200 Multi-service Switch Routers with the Pronto OSS for end-to-end metro scale solution.
The two companies are working with SA Unwired.net, Hotzone Integrators, and NAS Wireless to …
SPOTLIGHT: Defcon
WiFi enthusiasts from all over the world -- and from my experience quite a few others who escape precise defintion -- will gather in Las Vegas July 29-31 for the Third Annual Defcon Wifi Shootout Contest, in which nerdy types from all walks of life compete to see who would break the record of how far a WiFi signal can travel. The goal is to see who can achieve the greatest possible connect distance between two 802.11b/g stations through innovative engineering and antenna design. Website
ALSO NOTED: T-Mobile claims 450K paid users; WiTopia.Net launches outsourced 802.1x support; and much more...
> T-Mobile said 450,000 people paid to use its WiFi service. Story
> WiFi, security, RFID occupy center stage at Mobile & Wireless World. Story
> WiTopia.Net launches outsourced 802.1x support. Story
> …