Chicago scraps plans for Wi-Fi network
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An ambitious plan to blanket the city with wireless broadband Internet will be shelved because it is too costly and too few residents would use it, Chicago officials said Tuesday.
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Backers of a Philadelphia Wi-Fi project are worried that a bill going through the state legislature would spike a plan to blanket the city with free or inexpensive wireless access. [Broadband Blog]
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Verizon Wireless on Tuesday dropped its opposition to a plan to give Nextel Communications (NXTL) valuable airwaves, removing a big hurdle to a deal aimed at fixing cell phone interference
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Verizon Wireless has agreed to drop its opposition to the FCC&#39;s decision to realign the 800 MHz spectrum band, including Nextel&#39;s receipt of 1.9 GHz spectrum, and Nextel has agreed to relinquish
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On Monday, Starbucks announced that it will be dropping T-Mobile as its exclusive WiFi provider and instead going with AT&T.
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Meraki, which has successfully installed mesh networks in six neighborhoods, plans to pick up where Earthlink left off and blanket the whole city with free Wi-Fi coverage by the end of 2008.
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Only Google can save the airwaves Frontline Wireless, the uber-startup that was poised to lay down a bid for a prime portion of the US wireless spectrum, now says it's "closed for business".â¦
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University of Texas bans students' private Wi-Fi hot spots, saying they block access to a campus wireless network.
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Intel has dropped plans to include integrated Wi-Fi in its 915G/P and 925X chipsets. The chipsets - formerly codenamed Grantsdale - were due to have Wi-Fi access points built in at launch.
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Intel no longer plans to turn its latest batch of chipsets into wireless access points, citing a lack of interest from PC vendors and the proliferation of standalone access points, a company spokesman said Friday.
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Intel has formally dropped Wi-Fi support from its &#39;Grantsdale&#39; chipset family and from its &#39;Alderwood&#39; chipset. The chip giant will now not ship the promised add-in module which would allow PCs based on its
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The Earthlink-Google plan for free WiFi in San Francisco appears to be derailed -- for now.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Intel Corp. no longer plans to turn its latest batch of chip sets into wireless access points, citing a lack of interest from PC vendors and the proliferation of stand-alone access points.
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After putting several of its municipal Wi-Fi partnerships on hold last year, Earhlink has decided to escape from this market entirely, concentrating instead on dial-up Internet access and partnerships with broadband carriers.
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After the FCC dismissed applications to use a bandwidth segment as a nationwide wireless network, the future of the band is uncertain.
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In a sure sign that the fervor behind municipal Wi-Fi is cooling rapidly, the city of Chicago announced Tuesday that it was canceling its plans to blanket the city with wireless Internet.
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By Justin Buehler, Victoria Advocate, Texas  Jun. 4--BAY CITY -- The entire city of Bay City is going Wi-Fi.