Eric Griffith

The CTIA Wireless 2006 show in Las Vegas features the debut of a new player in the equipment market for municipal/citywide Wi-Fi access. Go Networks of Mountain View, California is using the show to debut its Metro Broadband Wireless (MBW) system, which it calls a “carrier-class cellular Wi-Fi system.” Yuval Mor, the company’s Vice President […]

Texas Instruments (TI) said today that future versions of its WiLink 5.0 chipset would integrate not only Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, but also an FM radio. In a separate announcement, Kineto Wireless said that the Unlicensed Mobile Access (UMA) software client it developed for letting devices roam from cellular to Wi-Fi networks (also known as fixed/mobile […]

While the T-Mobile Hotspot network in the United States (providing Wi-Fi service at Starbucks, Borders and many other locations) has long been a part of the iPass Global Broadband Roaming network, as of today the T-Mobile hotspots of Europe are also going to be part of the virtual network. iPass sells remote access services to […]

Aliant, a telco subsidiary of Bell Canada Enterprises serving the Eastern Canada provinces of New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland and Labrador, is getting heavily into wireless. This week, the company announced plans to serve as an integrator providing Wi-Fi service for businesses, beginning with a concentration on the hospitality sector. The […]

After two years in stealth mode, G2 Microsystems of Santa Clara, California is ready to make a splash in the world of location-aware wireless by providing low cost hardware for use in asset tracking hardware tags. The G2 System-on-Chip (SoC) tag (model G2C501) supports more than just the 802.11-based tracking done by companies like Newbury, […]

Skyhook hopes to answer that question with a browser toolbar it has developed called “When you look online for weather, movies, dating and other items, they have content that’s location-specific,” says Morgan. “You usually have to enter that, but with Loki, it figures out where you are [using the WPS] and puts in that information.” […]

Remember when cable and phone companies with a broadband business to protect said municipal Wi-Fi was too expensive, doomed and/or foolish? Those days may officially be over. The Wall Street Journal covered this fact just this week, running down a number of the deals that former anti-muni-Wi-Fi companies like Verizon and Time Warner are launching […]

When it first launched, Newbury Networks was in the business of providing location-based services that did more than just provide security based on where end-users are located — they would do things like serve up information to laptops or PDAs based on location. The company soon saw the writing on the wall, that security was […]

In Arizona, the city of Tempe’s 550 mesh access points are deployed, and neighboring Chandler is well on the way to total wireless broadband. Now the network provider, MobilePro, says the neighboring city of Gilbert is joining them to make the “largest contiguous border-to-border network in the United States, encompassing 187 square miles,” according to […]

Aurora, Illinois was the first city in the United States to install public street lights. Look for wireless equipment on many of those lights providing the populace with free access (for the price of looking at an ad) by the end of this year. Aurora (pop. 170,000), which issued an RFP late last year looking […]

High-speed wireless networks that far outstrip the paltry speeds of today’s 802.11-based networks are definitely in our future. That’s the good news. However, it might take a little longer to get a final high-speed WLAN specification than some were anticipating even two months ago. Atheros CTO Bill McFarland said in a statement last week that […]

It’s not 100 percent official yet, but if the city council of Rio Rancho, New Mexico votes as expected tomorrow night, that municipality will soon offer citywide Wi-Fi Internet access to every resident and visitor for free. Azulstar Networks of Grand Haven, Michigan is the provider of the Rio Rancho network (as well as a […]