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NewsIntegrated access vendor U4EA acquires NextHop
U4EA Technologies, a vendor of integrated access products, said it has acquired NextHop Technologies, a maker of WiFi access point and controller software, for an undisclosed sum. U4EA operates in Read more...
MetroFi looks to sell municipal WiFi networks
Another municipal WiFi network operator is on the skids. MetroFi, the municipal wireless specialist founded by former Covad Communications co-founder Chuck Haas, is looking for buyer for the WiFi Read more...
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SEC: Broadcom officials back-dated stock options
Broadcom, a leading maker of broadband wireline and wireless data networking chips, is the latest firm to be tangled up in a stock option back-dating scandal. The Securities and Exchange Commission Read more...
AT&T brings U-verse to small business sector
AT&T is rolling out a U-verse small business broadband package in 40 markets. The offering will give businesses with up to 32 Internet connections 10 Mbps downstream bandwidth. Those business Read more...
EarthLink to darken, dis-assemble Philly net
EarthLink, the ISP that campaigned to own the municipal WiFi market and later withdrew from it in the span of a single year, is shutting down its once-controversial, much-hyped municipal Wi-Fi Read more...
Qwest CTO discusses technology trends
Qwest Communications CEO Pieter Poll, in the first installment of a two-part interview with Telephony, discusses the telco's interest in fixed-mobile convergence, wireless broadband and the need for Read more...
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> A Colorado state Senate committee passed a bill that could allow Qwest to raise rates as much as 32 percent. Read more...
SureWest tests free WiFi in home market
Independent telco SureWest Communications is giving free WiFi a try. The company has launched to WiFi hot-zones on a trial basis at two locations--one a community center and the other an apartment Read more...
Windstream offers 2Wire home gateways
Independent telco Windstream Communications is offering wireless home networking gateways from 2Wire that allow multiple wireless devices in the home to share the incoming broadband connection. Such Read more...
| Press ReleasesComfone adds remote WiFi test service to existing portfolio of testing servicesBern, Switzerland, 11 June, 2008 –Comfone
today announces the recent launch of its WiFi remote test service to
facilitate the testing and rollout of WiFi roaming services. Read more... Netflix Player by Roku using Atheros Wi-Fi technologySanta Clara, CA -- Atheros Communications, Inc., a leading developer of advanced semiconductor system solutions for wireless and wired communications, today announced that its Wi-Fi technology Read more... AT&T Launches Free Wi-Fi for LaptopConnect CustomersSan Antonio -- AT&T Inc. announced that qualifying LaptopConnect customers can now access more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hot spots free of charge. Users can access Wi-Fi at nearly 7,000 participating Read more... WAYPORT SERVICE IN MORE THAN 10,000 McDONALD’S
Irving, Texas – Apr 29, 2008- Wayport, Inc. , a provider of converged network solutions to enable breakthrough network applications, Read more... Meru Networks Brings Virtual Reality To Wireless LAN Management SUNNYVALE, Calif., Apr. 21, 2008 – Meru Networks has introduced a network management software product that lets users "walk" through three-dimensional representations of their Meru Read more... |