On Sept 9 FiSci Technologies and Gigabeam Networks launched a new, low-cost, high-speed internet service for the residents of Whitesburg, KY.
Citing frustrations from Whitesburg residents with current internet providers speed and price, FiSci Technologies approached Gigabeam Networks with the intention of providing the back-end...
Broadband internet service in the U.S. has been plagued by uncompetitive practices. Large, nationwide internet service providers (ISPs) have built monopolies that prohibit innovation, drive down levels of service, and block competitors from entering the market. In its 2016 Broadband Progress Report, the Federal...
WBA sees Wi-Fi as a major influence on 5G visions being laid out for cellular systems
What will be the role of Wi-Fi and unlicensed spectrum in a 5G world? The Wireless Broadband Alliance has put out an initial industry assessment on the part that...
Network provider Boingo Wireless has a charitable initiative called Boingo Cares that focuses on several causes including breast cancer awareness, support for troops and veterans and helping at-risk youth.
Boingo is a lead sponsor of San Bernardino, Calif.-based Exceeding Expectations, which uses triathlons as a...
Learn from iBwave how to minimize costs while delivering carrier-grade Wi-Fi
Whether in large corporate campuses or public venues like stadiums and transportation hubs, Wi-Fi connectivity is required by enterprise stakeholders and expected by consumers. Projects led by service providers, system integrators or enterprise users...
WiGig use cases include wireless docking and untethered VR
The 802.11ad standard, also called WiGig due to its ability to deliver multi-gigabit throughput using unlicensed 60 GHz frequencies, has been something of a slow burn. But Mark Grodzinsky, senior director of product management for Qualcomm,...
During the pre-LTE days, the importance of Wi-Fi infrastructure was on the rise and that created opportunities for aggregators such as Devicescape and iPass to offer the broadest platforms to customers – from enterprises to cellular offloaders to Wi-Fi-first mobile virtual network operators. There...
The workforce of the future will be more mobile than ever. By 2020, 40% of the global workforce will be mobile. In the U.S. and Europe, that number will soar to 75%. The changing composition of the modern workforce accelerates the need for mobile...
Los Angeles, Calif.-based Boingo Wireless is commonly associated with airport Wi-Fi, which it has been providing since 2001. And that's OK, CEO David Hagan said on a recent episode of the NPR podcast "Corner Office." But, as recently released Q2 2017 financial reports remind,...
Keysight's $1.6 billion purchase of Ixia is already bearing fruit. The combined company has announced a new emulation system that it says is the first in the industry to provide simultaneous cellular and Wi-Fi testing.
"User experience testing in mobile devices requires evaluation of...
There have been recently a lot of announcements around improving the residential Wi-Fi play. These innovations are happening on two fronts. The first is better coverage through mesh networks or easier-to-add access nodes. The second is by offering network based services such as security...
I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Gagandeep Singh, CEO of RaGaPa, to update us on where they are with their guest Wi-Fi solution. Enjoy.
Question: Give us a background about who RaGaPa is for those readers who are not familiar with you?
Answer: We are...
City Wi-Fi Roaming initiative includes 38 operators
The Wireless Broadband Alliance is continuing its support for a global Wi-Fi roaming network of public hot spots that has significantly expanded since the WBA launched the project last year.
The City Wi-Fi Roaming project started as a celebration...
Small-cell-as-a-service offering embraced by Chelsea Football Club
This week Ericsson announced decreasing sales across all business units including its managed services division, but Patrik Jakobson, head of network-as-a-service, a subset of the managed services unit, expects small-cell-as-a-service (ScaaS) to gain momentum in not only the...
Free, public Wi-Fi network being deployed with carrier O2 and Cornerstone Telecommunication Infrastructure
London's Square Mile, the colloquial name for the city's historic center, is set for a major boost in public Wi-Fi with a planned deployment from Cisco in partnership with local carrier O2...
As the world headquarters for AT&T, Dallas was an obvious choice for the telecom giant when it selected eight locations to test its smart city technologies. The company partnered with the Dallas Innovation Alliance to launch a a multi-phased smart cities project which already...
Recent Nokia MEC test at University of Notre Dame's hockey rink included AR
Smartphones are already an integral part of the fan experience at large sporting and entertainment events: snapping selfies and pictures of the action, sharing those photos on social media, tweeting their play-by-plays....
As the world headquarters for AT&T, Dallas was an obvious choice for the telecom giant when it selected eight locations to test its smart city technologies. The company partnered with the Dallas Innovation Alliance to launch a a multi-phased smart cities project which already...
At the dawn of the 5G and the Internet of Everything era, one would easily assume that most people are already well connected with broadband access, especially in urban areas. If things and clothes are becoming connected, then the large majority of humans must...
Wi-Fi user experience: The impact of 802.11k, r and v
The ongoing evolution of Wi-Fi continues to explore higher speeds, but network manageability and Wi-Fi user experience are also becoming more important.
This is partly a factor of how dependent users are on Wi-Fi, both in...
Asking an enterprise customer, say, a sports venue, to blanket their arena with your small cells is like asking your dad to buy you an expensive hot rod: it’s not going to happen unless you sweeten the deal. Instead of taking this one-down position,...
A question often raised about CBRS concerns options in the unlicensed bands – namely Wi-Fi, LTE in unlicensed bands and MulteFire. Does CBRS compete with them, and if so, which one will win?
With the increase in traffic and the widening of applications that use...
Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has been described variously as a threat to humanity, a boon to economies, and many other things in between. All valuable technologies solve a pertinent problem. Until recently AI and its favorite children, machine learning and predictive analytics, have...
Carrier Wi-Fi provider Fon has partnerships with a number of global carriers that enable it to create global Wi-Fi networks and help operators deliver Wi-Fi services.
RCR Wireless News caught up with Fon COO Enrique Farfán for a Q&A on trends in the Wi-Fi market:...
