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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Tuesday, September 30, 2003 |
Source: C|Net
Merrill Lynch ups wireless forecasts
U.S. wireless carriers will see their subscriber numbers rise by 16 million during 2003, the research company says--1 million more than it had previously estimated.
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12:00:35 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Singapore Does Some Unwiring
Cafe chain and libraries get Wi-Fi: StarHub of Singapore said it is offering Wi-Fi in 21 cafes owned by the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf chain. Also in Singapore, SingTel has built hot spots in 23 libraries -- apparently all the public libraries in the country. Users have to pay to use them but as part of the fee they get access to a huge electronic collection—23,000 electronic books, magazines and journals....
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11:08:17 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Free Voice Calls Over Wi-Fi
A new Wi-Fi phone from Jeff Pulver lets you make free calls when in range. The phones cost around $250 and only let you make calls to other folks subscribed to Pulver’s voice-over-IP calling plan. But apparently Pulver is in talks with Vonage to make a phone that is compatible with Vonage. [via Gizmodo]...
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11:08:16 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Cities Support Wi-Fi
Wellington, New Zealand, now has 100 hot spots: The hot spots are run by CityLink, a privately-owned business that was first created by the Wellington City Council in 1995. CityLink is trialing Wi-Fi enabled mobile phones on the network. The city gave the company a bunch of money recently to add more hot spots, so that as many as 400 locations are littered around the city. We may start seeing these kinds of partnerships between city governments and companies in small towns in the U.S. -- places where the Cometas of the world won't bother setting up hot spots just as wireless broadband firms are filling missing cable and DSL modem gaps. We've already seen some city involvement in Portland, but there, the city is just making it easier for hot spot operators to build networks....
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11:08:15 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Wi-Fi to Replace Bluetooth?
National Semiconductor is testing super low power Wi-Fi: The idea is to use it in mobile phones and PDAs. The researchers say they're doing this because Bluetooth can't transmit enough data and isn't easily networkable. Low power Wi-Fi would come at a cost: lower data rates and shorter transmission distances....
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11:08:13 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
BT Opens Up
BT said it will wholesale its Wi-Fi network: Vodafone is the first taker, announcing that its customers will be able to use BT's hot spots. We should start to see all the big hot spot operators around the globe follow suit. I've been waiting for T-Mobile to open up its network and figure it must be planning to do so soon....
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11:06:38 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
SuiteSpeed has Cool Hotel Offering
The Peery Hotel in Salt Lake City offers free Wi-Fi everywhere in the hotel: SuiteSpeed built the network and offers guests that may not have a Wi-Fi card a bridging device that plugs into an Ethernet port. The service doesn't require any special configuration on the laptop. SuiteSpeed offers the hotel reports on the use of the network and can help a hotel with billing, authentication and a portal page. Glenn has heard that some hotels in the budget category opted for HomePNA, a way of running networks over existing phone lines using unused higher frequencies, and then provide Ethernet-to-HomePNA bridges to guests....
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11:06:36 AM
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