Articles tagged with: Wifi
USA Education Market Wireless Spending to Reach $6.8 Billion by End of 2014
Education institutions in the USA will spend roughly US$6.8 billion annually on wireless products and services by 2014, which represents a Compound Annual Growth Rate of 5.2%, concludes a report from CompassIntelligence. This year, K-12 and Higher Education institutions are expected to spend an estimated $5.7 billion on wireless services and equipment. more
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South Korea's Operators Focus on Network Expansion as Smartphones Drive Revenue
South Korea's $5.1 billion mobile data market is expected to nearly double in size, generating $9.0 billion by 2015, putting the issue of network upgrades at the top of the agenda for mobile operators, according to a new report from Pyramid Research. more
Related Tags: coverage, telecom, wibro, 2g, Kuwait
UK Train Service to Get Wi-Fi Service in Trains
The UK's East Midlands Train company has deployed an in-carriage Wi-Fi service for passengers, based on a platform supplied by Nomad Digital. The new service is now available on all 6 of the 7-car Meridian units and over the coming months, will be rolled out across all Meridians (27 units) and MKIII HSTs (11 units) covering journeys on the London-Sheffield and London-Nottingham routes. more
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Canadian Mayoral Candidate Claims Wi-Fi Hotspots are Dangerous
A retired police officer running for mayor of Stratford, Ontario in Canada has vowed to block a city-wide Wi-Fi network because he claims it is unsafe. Weatherall is campaigning on a platform to reduce public exposure to microwave radiation, including wifi in schools and hospitals where the most vulnerable to microwaves are increasingly exposed. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, health, wireless, wi-fi-hotspots, ontario, Canada
Samsung Wireless USB Chipset Supports Data Transmission Between CE Devices
Samsung Electronics has introduced its latest wireless universal serial bus (USB) solution, developed using Ultra Wide Band (UWB) technology. Offered in a two-chip set, Samsung's newest S3C2680/ S5M8311 WUSB solution enables content to be wirelessly transmitted from a mobile host device to a tethered device for viewing. more
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Aperto Networks Wins WiMAX Contract from Mystery Indian Company
Aperto Networks says that it has received a purchase order from an unnamed company in India for WiMAX equipment based on the 802.16d standard. The "Tier 1 operator" is planning to build broadband wireless networks across India. more
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Wi-Fi to bring mobile TV to the masses with revenues reaching $7bn by 2015
A new report published today by Juniper Research has found that a surge in applications which can take advantage of the increasing availability of free wifi services are set to boost a mobile TV industry with anticipated revenues of nearly $7 billion by 2015. more
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Annual Mobile VoIP Minutes to Double Each Year, Reaching 470.6bn by 2015
The number of mobile VoIP minutes carried annually on 3G and 4G networks will rise from 15 billion minutes in 2010 to 470.6 billion by 2015, finds a new report from Juniper Research. Mobile VoIP traffic will see steady rises in all regions over the forecast period, but particularly in developed markets, due to the increasing ubiquity of 3G networks. more
Related Tags: voip, mobile-voip, circuit-switched
Updated Web Browser for Android Phones Transcodes Flash into HTML5
USA based software developer, Skyfire has released an updated version of its Android smartphone web browser. The enhancement is said to provide increased stability as well as support for 750,000 additional websites for watching Flash video. Skyfire specifically enables Flash video by transcoding video files into HTML5 and optimizing them for mobile delivery. more
Related Tags: skyfire, android, transcode, flash, video, html5, html5
UK's Daisy Group Sells Loss Making WiMAX Licenses
UK based Daisy Group has disposed of its WiMAX spectrum licences to UK Broadband, part of the PCCW Group, for a cash consideration of £12.5 million (US$18.5 million). The Company has also disposed of its non-core, loss-making Wi-Fi business (Freedom4 wifi). This has been sold to the existing management team for a nominal sum. more
Related Tags: daisy-group, wimax, pccw, sme, UK
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