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Articles tagged with: Wi Fi and Wireless Broadband
Virgin Trains to offer on-board Wi-Fi Service
T-Mobile UK and Virgin Trains today announced the launch of wi-fi internet services for passengers on Pendolino Virgin trains on the West Coast Main Line. The wi-fi HotSpot service will provide a wireless broadband connection throughout the entire journey, including all tunnel sections, at high speeds. The HotSpot service has been rolled out by T-Mobile's solution partner, Nomad Digital. more
Related Tags: t-mobile, virgin-trains, nomad-digital, ovi, t-mobile-uk, mobile-broadband, trains, hotspot, tunnel, virgin, wi-fi-hotspot, UK
AT&T Sees Surge in Wi-Fi Connections
AT&T has reported dramatic growth in the number of wi-fi users and connections. The US firm reported wi-fi connections totaled 10.5 million in the first quarter of 2009 - more than triple the 3.4 million connections in the first quarter of 2008, and more than half AT&T's 20 million total wi-fi connections for all of 2008. more
Related Tags: at&t, starbucks, smartphones, wayport, roaming, smartphone, iphone, 3g, , ovi, iden, hotspot, hotspots, airports, wired, 3g-network,
Desktop Computers are Ceding Ground to Mobile Enabled Laptops
Laptops outstripped desktops for the first time in terms of revenue due to a higher average sale price (ASP). Frost & Sullivan believes another could follow this first in 2009, when laptop unit sales will exceed that of desktops, globally. Analysis from Frost & Sullivan finds that the market earned revenues of US$137.3 billion in 2008 and estimates this to reach US$211.4 billion in 2014. more
Related Tags: qualcomm, itu, edge, tim, cdma, gsm, notebook, laptop, churn, gobi
Eight Mobile Technologies to Watch in 2009 and 2010
Gartner says that it has identified eight mobile technologies that will evolve significantly through 2010, impacting short-term mobile strategies and policies. more
Related Tags: ethernet, social-networking, nfc, near-field-communication, apple, bluetooth, rsa, privacy, itu, gps, hspa, e-book, gartner, uwb, battery, chipsets, projectors, displays, presence, 802.11n, widgets, bandwidth, uplink, downlink, display, wired, health, mobile-web
3G Draws Cisco into the Cellular Fixed Wireless Terminal Market
The advent of 3G has suddenly made providing wireless broadband connectivity to fixed wireless terminals (FWTs) a lot more interesting for traditional networking equipment and broadband device vendors. Two of the four main classes of FWT - SOHO/consumer terminals and business terminals - are seeing increased participation from vendors such as D-Link and Cisco Systems. more
Related Tags: d-link, cisco, abi-research, fixed-wireless, wired, backup
BT Wi-Fi usage doubles in a year
Users of wi-fi hotspots operated by the UK's BT clocked up twice the number of minutes online between April and September 2008, than the same period last year. The half year figures, combining BT Openzone and BT FON are 100% up on the same period in 2007 and 57% up on the previous six months. more
Related Tags: wayport, bt, meteor, bt-openzone, hotspots, fon, wi-fi-alliance, wi-fi-hotspots, connect, UK
Qualcomm Doubles Computing Power of Snapdragon With New Dual-CPU, Single-Chip Solution
Qualcomm has announced a new dual-CPU Snapdragon single-chip solution that extends the reach of the Snapdragon platform by targeting more advanced mobile computing devices. The QSD8672 chip features two computing cores capable of up to 1.5GHz for greater processing capabilities, in addition to optimized battery life and a full range of 3G mobile broadband and peripheral connectivity capabilities found on all Snapdragon chipsets. more
Related Tags: qualcomm, bluetooth, gps, hspa, mobile-broadband, cdma, battery, snapdragon, hspa+, displays, dvb-h, downlink, modems, 3d
Anadigics Announces First Power Amplifiers for 3G and 4G Femtocells
Anadigics has announced the first in the its new line of products targeted at the 3G and 4G femtocell markets. Anadigics' new AWB7220 PA is a highly isolated, fully matched, multi-chip module (MCM) designed and engineered specifically for use in femtocell and customer premises equipment (CPE) worldwide. more
Related Tags: wimax, abi-research, anadigics, femtocell, femtocells, 4g, ofdma
UK Wi-Fi Provider Halves Monthly Subscription Rates
BT, the UKs dominant landline operator has cut public wi-fi rates by up to 50 percent as it launched a new price structure. More than 2,500 extra European hotspots are also being added, bringing the choice of places to connect to more than 50,000 overseas, and over 100,000 UK and Ireland locations. more
Related Tags: roaming, swisscom, landline, bt, 3, meteor, bt-openzone, hotspots, wlan, fon, railway, hotel, connect, UK
Relays pass baton to next-gen broadband networks
The ideal of affordable wireless broadband for all, and as an added bonus better quality services in urban areas, is a lot closer thanks to recent advances made by European researchers. more
Related Tags: intel, eu, base-stations, backhaul, bwa, hotspots, laptop, ieee, son, ofdma, mesh
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