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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Sunday, November 30, 2003 |
Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Gi-Fi?
Om Malik breaks the latest story: high up on the spectrum, it's gigabit wireless: While you can squeeze gigabits per second out of long-haul wireless using equipment from Proxim and a few others, short-range Wi-Fi-like gigabit networking is out of the question. Or is it? Om Malik finds that a serial successful businessman in the networking space has his sights set up on the 56 GHz band in which he hopes to offer 2 Gbps on a wireless LAN with full security across each layer. When you're developing new protocols, you can think about layer-based encryption or embedding encryption into the stack....
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12:14:21 PM 
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Austrian Wi-Fi Operator Acquired by T-Mobile
T-Mobile Austria is acquiring the 300-hot-spot strong Metronet.at (press release is in German): T-Mobile is continuing to expand its international presence through acquisition of Metronet. T-Mobile has partnered with Metronet on roaming since 2002. Metronet is the fourth-largest European WISP, according to their press release. "This deal is therefore bringing us a large step closer to the international objective of providing W-LAN around the entire globe," explains Dr. Georg Pölzl, Managing Director of T-Mobile Austria. T-Mobile Austria charges €7.95 per hour, €15.95 for three hours, or €24.95 for 24 hours. This is enormously higher than the same rates charged by T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile customers can pay via SMS at €1.99 per 15-minute unit, but the service is currently free to subscribers....
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11:32:23 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Kuwait's Airport Goes Wireless
Kuwait's main airport will have Wi-Fi access: The article doesn't note a timetable or cost, but about 4 million passengers a year wend their way across 35 international airlines. Intel's involved....
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11:32:22 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Kansas City Gets AirPort Wi-Fi
Sprint PCS to pay for, roll out airport Wi-Fi in Kansas City: As with many other airport situations, the company with the largest deal wins the contract, even though I believe that's not in the airport's best interest as a general policy. Sprint PCS will pay for the equipment, but the airport will eventually own it. The cost per day: $9.95. Sprint PCS hasn't announced unlimited monthly usage plans yet; they have said they will resell access to their network to others. The expense to build out the airport's Wi-Fi wasn't released....
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11:21:51 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Fred-eZone in Canada
New Brunswick, Canada's capital launches Wi-Fi project (follow link and download PDF press release): The Fred-eZone (short for Fredericton) project offers free Wi-Fi throughout public spaces with the first phase costing Cdn$150,000. Right now, this includes downtown and the airport, but the project will eventually span all business corridors and public places. Interestingly, the project stems in part from an earlier effort to deploy municipal fiber, which gave the city the easy access to bandwidth that made the Wi-Fi rollout possible....
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11:01:02 AM
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Source: Wi-Fi Networking News
Boeing Moves Towards VOIP in the Air
As Connexion by Boeing moves closer to its big 2004 rollout on many airlines, voice over IP (VoIP) looks more likely, too: Connexion has chosen its rugged, in the air AP vendor, and is talking vaguely about how VoIP might emerge on planes. They might also deploy a low-power cellular transmitter that would use the satellite link for backhaul. The first-generation AP on planes, by the way, is 802.11b only -- probably due to regulatory certification issues. The next-generation system will be a/b/g....
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11:01:01 AM
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