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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Tuesday, September 23, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Planet
The announced deal to put T-Mobile Hotspots in every location gets off the ground today with the first going live in Dallas, with northern California, New York and New Jersey to follow soon.
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2:13:28 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
Sprint is the first customer of the new clearinghouse service that will let carriers and WISPs automatically add to their own footprint by using the iPass install base of hotspots. Could T-Mobile be its next customer?
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2:13:25 PM
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Source: eWEEK Technology News
Palm has introduced a foldable wireless keyboard that links to any Palm device via an infrared connection.
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1:32:34 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Well, part of downtown Pittsburgh is going wireless: Telerama, an ISP, made a deal with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust to cover 14 blocks downtown with Wi-Fi. Users will be able to access info about theaters and other cultural spaces in the area for free and full Internet access will cost $5 a day or $30 a month. While clearly business people can use the network, Telerama specifically targets neighborhoods and campuses for the more "casual" user. It already offers service in coffee shops, bars, restaurants, theaters and health clubs in Pittsburgh. I think they'll really have to spell out why people other than business users will want to use the networks because I don't think Joe laptop user walking down the street will understand why he would want to get online in the health club. Unlike some of the big hot spot operatorsm, Telerama actually pays hot spot locations to become hot spots. I wonder if that means Telerama has a different revenue sharing model than some of the other folks....
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11:12:30 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Corrider Systems demonstrates 256 Mbps over medium-voltage powerlines: The ultimate vision is to use powerlines to carry data near end users, then deliver the data over the final mile with Wi-Fi. This system was deployed as a test by Pacific Gas and Electric over a section of its grid. Product availability will be second quarter next year—is it too soon to dream about the potential for real broadband connectivity competition??...
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11:02:11 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Australian city builds Wi-Fi throughout town: An increasing number of cities around the globe seem to be deploying Wi-Fi networks in town for public use. This Australian city has deployed 40 access points, using lamp posts and traffic lights in some cases. The city hopes to offer services specifically for certain events, like its arts festival, though it doesn't name what types of services....
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10:41:10 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Planet
The Baby Bell focuses on DSL and wireless as its landline unit sputters.
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10:08:30 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
NetNearU has partnered with Intera to Wi-Fi enable pay phones: Intera owns or manages nearly 40,000 pay phones around the country and has relationships with folks that own another 200,000 pay phones. It has offered to help those owners set up Wi-Fi hotspots at their phone locations, supplying the gear and helping set up DSL connections to the phones. The pay phone owners will have to contact Intera to say they're interested so it's hard to know when these conversions might happen....
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9:58:03 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
This is a really pedestrian story about a small town's debate over cellular towers: But the ending is a hoot. A gentleman known in the region as "maddog" suggests using the antenna to create a Wi-Fi hotspot downtown. Maddog, aka John Hall, is apparently "an internationally known advocate of the Linux operating system and perhaps the region's most famous computer worker." It's nice to know that Wi-Fi is popping up in the small towns, even if only by people the rest of the town may consider the fringe....
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9:47:30 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Techdirt reports on Dartmouth's decision to offer students free phone calls using VoIP over Wi-Fi: The students will be offered free software so that they can make phone calls on their laptops anywhere there is Wi-Fi. This follows earlier word that Dartmouth had decided to offer free calling to students because it would be cheaper then supporting the billing infrastructure....
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9:35:39 AM
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Source: Userland.com
NEW YORK (AP) -- Verizon Communications announced an agreement Monday that will enable its customers to turn the telephone number on a home or office line into the wireless number for a cell phone.
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9:26:20 AM
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