Spanish start-up Whisher promises free Wi-Fi for all
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Company pledges free Wi-Fi if people share their broadband connections, but service model violates U.S. ISP user agreements.
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Three companies are set to use the backdrop of the 2008 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona to debut a device that can use WiMAX technology to make calls.
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With a rash of muni Wi-Fi projects collapsing, companies and cities realize their initial approaches to providing ubiquitous, free network connectivity aren't working. The problem is Wi-Fi is too expensive to deploy, and there's not enough user demand.
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City will build the world's largest mesh Wi-Fi network to spread Internet access.
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The company teams up with Flarion, which makes a new kind of wireless technology that competes with Wi-Fi and 3G cellular.
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Company is developing a fiber network that will deliver TV and data to homes.
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A startup hopes to increase the availability of Wi-Fi by offering a new line of sun-powered routers.
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Microsoft and JiWire have struck a deal through which they will offer advertising on municipal Wi-Fi networks. The goal is to assess user willingness to tolerate advertising in return for free or subsidized access to Wi-Fi networks.
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UK city Norwich is pioneering a free, wi-fi project to see how people can use wireless internet.
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AT&amp;T, the largest US telecommunications group, is launching its first WiFi wireless broadband internet service on Monday in Riverside, California.
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A local startup is selling technology to enable the average person to set up and manage their own WiFi wireless network. BeeTelecom Inc.
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A hi-tech company from Gateshead providing wi-fi internet hot- spots is gearing up for expansion following a six-figure funding injection.
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InfoWorld - Wireless networking startup Meraki plans to deliver free wireless Internet access, supported by advertising, across San Francisco by the end of the year, it announced Friday.
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AT&amp;T Inc. announced Monday that subscribers to its higher speed broadband services will have free access to its Wi-Fi hotspots throughout the country.
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A Silicon Valley startup is promising to blanket San Francisco with free wireless Internet service, reviving a crusade that crumbled last year after two much larger companies, EarthLink Inc. and Google Inc., scrapped their plans to build a high-speed network for Web surfing.
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Wireless networking startup Meraki plans to deliver free wireless Internet access, supported by advertising, across San Francisco by the end of the year, it announced Friday.An earlier&#160;attempt by Google and EarthLink&#160;to offer&#160;free city-wide Wi-Fi access in San Francisco&#160;foundered in August when&#160;EarthLink pulled out. They had planned a two-tier service, with faster, paid access provided by EarthLink and a more limited, advertising-funded service to be offered by Google. The search engine giant is also an investor in Meraki.Meraki will base the service on an existing project covering parts of the city, Free the Net, which has signed up 40,000 users over an area of 5 square kilometers since it began last March.To avoid the need for extensive cabling, Meraki will build the backbone of the network using a mesh network of solar-powered wireless repeaters installed on rooftops. The nodes will use some of their wireless capacity to offer Internet access to those nearby, and the rest to haul traffic back, via adjacent nodes, to the network&#39;s core.The company is looking for city residents willing to put a repeater on their roof. Those hosting a repeater will get free access to the service -- but so will their neighbors -- although for them, the signal may not be as strong. Although devices are shared, Meraki aims to deliver data rates of around 1Mbps&#160; to each user.Meraki will pay the cost of rolling out the service, and no public funds are involved, it said. Investors have offered the company an additional $20 million in venture capital to fund the move, it announced Friday.Ozone in Paris offers a similar wireless Internet service based on a network of wireless repeaters. Its service is only free for those who host repeaters, though: others must pay &#8364;18 ($26) a month.
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A New York City group creates a kit so that anyone with an old computer can create a wireless access point.