Wi-Fi
AT&T’s experience with Wi-Fi underscores the technology’s explosion. For the first three months of 2009, AT&T reported 10.5 million Wi-Fi connections, more than triple the amount for the first quarter of 2008, and more than half the 20 million total Wi-Fi connections in all of 2008.
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The carrier’s most recent fiscal quart indicates even more growth. "Through the end of May, we did as many connections as we did for the entire year last year," says Dennis Whiteside, AT&T assistant vice president for consumer markets.
A report from ABI Research projects that Wi-Fi chipset vendors will ship 1 billion units by 2011. By the end of the following year, a cumulative 5 billion such chipsets ...
There are two types of Wifi hotspots as follows: Free Wi-Fi hotspotsFree hotspots operate in two ways: Using an open public network is the easiest way to create a free Ho...
Wi-Fi hotspots were first proposed by Brett Stewart at the NetWorld+Interop conference in The Moscone Center in San Francisco in August 1993. Stewart did not use the term...
Why Wi-Fi? By deploying a wireless infrastructure, public transportation companies, like King Metro, are offering free Wi-Fi access for riders—an amenity that could hel...
hienquangcao We have seen the on and off saga of free WiFi at AT&T hotspots for a couple of months now and it looks like iPhone users may again have access to free WiFi a...
As if we don’t already have enough “regular” viruses to worry about, a research team from Indiana University suggests that a specially designed computer virus made ...
OK, there's a chance I‘ve been a tiny bit irrationally exuberant when it comes to 802.11n, but I really don't think so. I first learned about MIMO in the mid-90's (yes,...
Calabasas, CA-based Strix Systems announced yesterday that the state-run Korean Highway Corp (KHC) will be using its Access/One Outdoor Wireless System (OWS) in an intell...
