Half of Wi-Fi hotspot money is wasted
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Rip-off Britain goes wireless Wireless hotspot usage is climbing, but more than half of the money spent on ad-hoc hotspot access is wasted, according to a survey by Wi-Fi roaming company Trustive.â¦
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One of the big complaints lodged against wireless phone companies is poor signal quality inside buildings, especially homes.
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Even EarthLink is scaling back deployments, some cities and regional networks are pushing forward with plans to build citywide Wi-Fi networks.
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Forget finding an Internet cafe. For less than what it costs to build a small library, city officials believe they can turn all 135 square miles of Philadelphia into the world&#39;s largest wireless Internet hot spot.
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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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The bloom is off the municipal Wi-Fi rose, according to attendees at a conference who said rollouts of wireless networks in U.S. cities are being slowed by technical concerns and other issues.
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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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Those wireless LAN cards that insert into a laptop, Tablet PC or PDA have just gone on the endangered species list, according to a new report published this week.
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CHICAGO - Plans to blanket cities across the nation with low-cost or free wireless Internet access are being delayed or abandoned because they are proving to be too costly and complicated.
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NEW YORK - About one-third of Internet users in the U.S. have used a wireless connection to surf the Web or check e-mail, according to a survey released Sunday.
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Investor's Business Daily - Offices still lag homes when it comes to wireless networking, or Wi-Fi. But they're catching up.
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Business & money: Overspend on Â£17bn programme to upgrade network could be more than double previous estimate.
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VENICE -- The idea sounds good on paper: Build a mesh network of wireless Wi-Fi base stations and let users roam around an entire city instead of providing limited connectivity in a handful of hot spots. But will it work? The City of Philadelphia hopes so.
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More and more venues are becoming hotspots. Using the wireless 802.11x protocol better known as Wi-Fi, these hotspots can be found in airports, libraries, coffeehouses, restaurants, shopping
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WiFi hogs are preventing me from feeding my online video game addiction.
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Just sign up with The Cloud Users making the leap to Microsoft's latest OS will get a few months' free Wi-Fi usage courtesy of hotspot aggregator The Cloud.â¦
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(InfoWorld) - Wi-fi startup Fon Technology SL has secured an additional â¬10 million (US$13.1 million) in funding for its plan to establish a global network of shared hotspots, the company said Friday. The funding came from new and previous investors, which have included Google Inc., Skype Ltd., Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital Operations LLC, Fon said. The new investors were not named. Index and Sequoia invested â¬18 million in Fon in February 2006. Based in Madrid, Spain, Fon provides routers that let home Wi-fi users share their broadband Internet connections with others, and then tap into those other users' connections for free when they are on the road. Fon's router let users divide how much bandwidth they will share. It broadcasts two Wi-fi signals, one for shared use and a secure, encrypted one for private use. In the U.S., the "La Fonera" router costs $39.95. Those who use one to share their Wi-fi can surf on other Fon hotspots for free, otherwise the cost accessing the Fon network is â¬3 or $3 a day. Fon said it has doubled the number of Wi-fi access points in the last two months to 120,000. The new funds will go to building up Fon's user community, which numbers 320,000 members, said spokeswoman Tania Cavada. More specific plans will be released later, she said. Fon has partnered with Skype to provide wi-fi coverage for users of mobile Skype. It has also partnered with ISPs (Internet service providers) and the social networking site Bebo Inc. Â