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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Wednesday, November 05, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
District in India Aims for Total Computer Literacy
Malappuram aims to have 100 percent e-literacy with the help of wireless Internet: This district in the Indian state of Kerala is deploying networks in hundreds of regional centers which are located within a few kilometers of several villages each. The population of 600,000 families can pay about US$1.00 (if I have the conversion of rupees correctly calculated) for 15 lessons. Astoundingly, the government claims that 400,000 households are already e-literate, without precisely defining what that means, and has a goal of 100 percent. The entire state of Kerala ultimately hopes to expand this mode of providing access throughout its 14 districts. Kerala claims 100 percent written literacy....
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9:47:21 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Roaming Poised to Expand
The Wall Street Journal says T-Mobile near signing a roaming agreement (link good for 7 days): The article reports that roaming is starting to become an inevitability. I'm curious whether T-Mobile envisions a model in which there is fee settlement across networks, or it's free roaming. The TeliaSonera model cited in the article involves one bill, one account, but usage fees outside of the home network range of Finland and Sweden and certain TeliaSonera-operated hotspots in other Scandinavian countries. I stand by my prediction: within a year, all U.S. networks will have substantial inter-network roaming agreements that will allow unlimited usage by subscribers for $30 per month or less. The marginal but vital additional value of Wi-Fi will enhance cellular and landline businesses, and possibly that of wired ISPs, but it won't have the standalone value that some misguided souls believe it does today....
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9:26:10 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Cometa's Wireless Back-Haul
Cometa discusses using WiMax as back-haul for its hotspots: This is not a bandwagon, it's a whole parade. I've heard from many folks in the industry that to densely deploy hotspots, wireless back-haul is the only reasonable course of action to conserve costs and maximize availability. With WiMax, it's possible that hotspots could have several Mbps, not just 1.5 or 512 Kbps. [via TechDirt]...
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6:39:41 PM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Vertical Handoff Has Liftoff
Industry and academia demonstrate connection handoff across wireless LAN, GPRS, wired LAN on commercial networks: A press release (not included on this site) says that TeliaSonera, Ericsson, Radionet, and the Helsinki University of Technology have demonstrated a seamless handoff across commercial networks. The benefits they cite are absolutely the case: users want uninterrupted services and no monkeying around. Interestingly, if you use NetMotion Wireless software, you can achieve most of this effect today. While you're responsible as a user for changing your connectivity, the NetMotion client and server software maintain the persistent state of the Internet connection....
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9:32:41 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Microsoft Rolls up XP Wireless Fixes
Microsoft releases a comprehensive set of patches that rolls up all extant Windows XP wireless updates: It's always nice to have one of these mega-packages in which all of the fixes from all of the separate patches are put into one update. [via LockerGnome]...
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4:31:31 AM
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