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Articles tagged with: Chicago
AT&T to Offer Wireless Services in Chicago Subways
The chicago's subway rail network, the CTA has approved plans by AT&T to offer cell phone coverage on the Red and Blue line subways for a period of 10 years. The transit authority expects to earn a minimum of US$3.1 million over the life of the contract. more
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Trump Tower Boosts Indoor Mobile Phone Coverage
ADC has announced that the Trump International Hotel and Tower in chicago has deployed its InterReach Fusion in-building cellular systems to provide clear and consistent cellular coverage for staff, visitors, and guests at the chicago landmark. more
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Dell Reported to be in Talks for Chinese Smartphones
Dell Computers, which has been rumoured to be entering the smartphone market for several years, is now hotly rumoured to be in talks with China Mobile to launch its first range of handsets in the country. The company has been apparently rebuffed by several operators who considered prototype handsets as bland an uninspiring. However China Mobile is thought to be keen on the models presented to it. more
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Dell Smartphone Rumours Resurface
The persistent rumours that computer maker, Dell is preparing to launch a range of mobile phones got another boost when it was reported that the firm could launch its first handsets next month. A report in the Wall Street Journal said that Dell has had a group of engineers working on the phones for more than a year from an office in the chicago area. more
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Business Use of Wi-Fi Hotspots Increases by 46%
iPass has published the latest edition of its Mobile Broadband Index, which tracks the wireless use patterns of mobile workers around the world. The report shows worldwide business use of iPass Wi-Fi hotspots increased by 46% from the first half of 2007 to the first half of 2008 and that users of 2.5G and 3G mobile broadband technologies in the US increased their data traffic in the second quarter of the year by 59% between 2007 and 2008. more
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Auction of Intangibles Attracts NASA, Private Investors
chicago -(Dow Jones)- Bidders will gather in chicago next month for a high-end live auction at the historic chicago Cultural Center, but they won't be vying for Roy Lichtenstein lithographs or a seventeenth-century writing desk. more
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Verizon Wireless to Offer Mobile Coverage on Chicago Underground Railway
The chicago Transit Authority says that it has secured an agreement with Verizon Wireless to provide mobile phone coverage in the city's subway tunnels. Verizon joins U.S. Cellular in providing coverage in trains when underground. more
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Sprint Orders WiMAX Backhaul Platform from DragonWave
US based Sprint has selected DragonWaveÃ's IP backhaul solutions for its WiMAX services in North America. DragonWaveÃ's Horizon Compact and Horizon Duo products will be deployed initially in the Baltimore/Washington and chicago markets. more
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If spectrum auctions and commercial Mobile WiMAX rollouts (compliant to Wave 2 Phase 2 certification) do not take place by 2008, the market scope for Mobile WiMAX on a global basis will be insignificant - claims Frost & Sullivan. The research firm also observes that the technology is facing a range of challenges that are likely to make it unfeasible as a mobile "access" technology. more
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Software Engineer Arrested for Stealing Telecoms Trade Secrets
A former software engineer for a telecommunications company based in suburban chicago has been indicted for allegedly stealing business trade secrets and attempting to take the documents with her to China. The defendant, Hanjuan Jin, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in China, allegedly possessed more than 1,000 electronic and paper proprietary documents when she attempted to travel one-way to China in February 2007. The documents were seized by U.S. customs officials at O'Hare International Airport. more
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