SAN DIEGO-In partnership with Bell Canada, San Diego-based inCode Telecom, a technology consulting firm, has launched AccessZone, a pilot service that lets North American wireline carriers transform pay phones into 802.11b hot spots.
Each pay phones in high-traffic areas like airports, train stations, hotels, convention centers and corporate campuses can be equipped to create a hot spot radius of approximately 300 feet in which end users can access the Internet via their laptop or palmtop computers.
“This new service offering, a comprehensive strategic business and technical plan, can help wireline carriers grab wireless market share, leverage their existing payphone infrastructure in an innovative and resourceful way and provide enterprise workers easy access to wireless data. We expect U.S. carriers to follow in Bell Canada’s footsteps very soon,” said John Donovan, chief executive officer of inCode Telecom.
“Wireless service providers, manufacturers, carriers and customers dream of a day where numerous Wi-Fi networks span the nation. Today, we are one step closer to making that dream a reality.”
