Public Wi-Fi part of Tel Aviv’s ranking as ‘World’s Smartest City’
Tel Aviv, Israel, has a robust public Wi-Fi network that’s free to use and popular among tourists. Data collected in 2014 shows visitors to the city overwhelmingly accessed Wi-Fi from their smartphones.
The public Wi-Fi...
Sprint, Boingo Wi-Fi deal to provide seamless connections at 35 locations
Sprint continues to push its Wi-Fi agenda, announcing a deal to offer customers access to Boingo Wireless’ cadre of hot spots at 35 airport locations across the country.
The multiyear partnership will see Wi-Fi-equipped Sprint...
As people increasingly rely on their smartphones to get through the day, there’s a growing emphasis in the wireless industry on providing robust indoor coverage from DAS, Wi-Fi, small cells and more.
Whether in a packed stadium, busy hotel lobby or waiting for a train...
Hello! And welcome to our Friday column, Worst of the Week. There’s a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCRWireless.com to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the wrong way....
ÜberWi supports enterprise Wi-Fi management, customer engagement
With an eye on turning Wi-Fi from an expense to a revenue driver, Annapolis, Md.-based AllCity Wireless on April 22, announced its new cloud-based Wi-Fi network management solution called ÜberWi.
Plans are to start shipping the new product in the...
Listen to the HetNet Happenings: Episode 11 podcast:
On this episode of HetNet Happenings, host Sean Kinney learns how a distributed antenna system (DAS) works and gets an overview of the Wi-Fi Innovation Summit.
https://youtu.be/uuUxb4tAYxs
Kinney, the managing editor for RCR Wireless News, is joined by RCR...
Google launched its Project Fi MVNO service, tapping Sprint, T-Mobile US and Wi-Fi
Following recent rumors, Google today unveiled the commercial launch of its Project Fi service, which taps cellular operators, Wi-Fi and the Motorola Nexus 6 device to offer mobile communication services. The move...
WSJ reports the Google MVNO could be announced this week
Google’s plans to launch a commercial mobile service could begin as early as this Wednesday, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
The report suggests that the mobile service will allow customers to only...
A closer look at Wi-Fi’s evolving technology and services
Once viewed as a threat to mobile operators' valuable 3G and 4G services, Wi-Fi (family of technologies under the IEEE 802.11 protocol) is now seen as a cost-effective way of helping operators meet their customers’ insatiable...
Mobile operators are set to gain access to spectrum in the 3.5 GHz band.
The Federal Communications Commission is making 150 megahertz of contiguous spectrum available for mobile broadband and other uses through a spectrum sharing policy. The agency says it is creating a three-tiered...
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the FBI are both investigating the ambitious plan to provide an iPad to every child in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Meanwhile the school district is asking Apple to refund millions of dollars that the district paid for curriculum software...
