MuniWireless

With the prospect of two new appointees to ARCEP (the French regulator) to replace Paul Champsaur and Gabrielle Gauthey, both of whom were instrumental in bringing more competition into the French telecommunications market, a war of words has erupted between…

The Netherlands’ competition authority (NMa) approved the joint venture between KPN, the Dutch telecom incumbent, and Reggefiber, a FTTH operator, to build out fiber networks to homes in the Netherlands. Initially, the competition authority and OPTA (the telecom regulator) rejected…

WorldMax, the WiMAX operator in Amsterdam, says that subscribers to its Aerea service can now enjoy download speeds of up to 5 Mbps if they sign up for the most expensive plan (Aerea 5.0 which sells for 24.95 EUR per month for…

The question about how WiMax provider Clearwire would answer the national-roaming question got a little bit clearer Wednesday, when Sprint officially announced its long-promised 3G/4G hybrid device, a USB dongle that lets a laptop user connect to both Clearwire’s WiMax and…

AdMob, a mobile advertising marketplace, revealed that smartphone users, in particular those who own iPhones, have been logging onto Wi-Fi networks in large numbers over the past few months. They predict Blackberry and T-Mobile Android G1 users will also use…

Orange will lose its exclusive deal with Apple to sell the iPhone through Orange beginning this Christmas season pursuant to a decision by the French Competition Council. Orange may wholesale the iPhone, on a non-exclusive way to multi-brand resellers (for…

The Conseil de la Concurrence (the French competition court) has ordered Apple to terminate its exclusive deal with Orange France and to offer the iPhone through other operators. The court seems to have expedited its decision based on the complaint filed…

Robert Berger has finally revealed the dirty little secret of the world’s supposedly most innovative tech community, Silicon Valley. Robert lives in Saratoga, which is home to a lot of entrepreneurs, and says that there is no broadband. None. His…

Looks like the Clearwire folks will officially take the wraps off their Portland, Ore., mobile WiMax network on Jan. 6, according to the invite we just got from Clearwire and Intel. Clearwire, which had reportedly already been taking consumer signups for…

The municipal wireless broadband network in Longmont, Colorado has finally gone live. DHB Networks, a service provider, took over the network from Kite which the city had contracted in 2006 to build the network. Kite went out of business after spending…

ARCEP, the French telecoms regulator, has decided to regulate the price that operators charge one another for call terminations. The move will eventually result in lower prices for end users. Other telecom regulators in Europe have lowered these rates or…

British Petroleum (BP) will be offering free Wi-Fi at their petrol stations in the US. What’s news to me isn’t that they WILL BE offering Wi-Fi but that they haven’t already. Aren’t most US petrol stations already equipped with Wi-Fi? In…

Still not convinced about the value of city-owed fiber plus muni wireless? Listen to the webinar featuring Jimmy Bagley, city CIO of Rock Hill, South Carolina, about how Rock Hill uses the city’s fiber network and the municipal wireless broadband…

Still not convinced about the value of city-owed fiber plus muni wireless? Listen to the webinar featuring Jimmy Bagley, city CIO of Rock Hill, South Carolina, about how Rock Hill uses the city’s fiber network and the municipal wireless broadband…

Just after last week’s post on why Americans don’t use prepaid phones as much as people in Europe and Asia, here comes the Wall Street Journal with an article about how budget-minded Americans are switching to prepaid phones. As the WSJ…

Looks like the 4G wireless data race is set to heat up a bit faster than most thought — since now Verizon says it will launch some Long Term Evolution (LTE) services in the U.S. by this time next year. Via…

Devicescape’s Easy Wi-Fi for AT&T is the fourth most popular application on the Apple iPhone app store (as of 8 December 2008) even though it was launched only a couple of weeks ago. This special version of Easy Wi-Fi is exclusively…

Ponca City, Oklahoma has deployed a municipal wireless broadband network that combines wireless automated meters (energy management) with free Wi-Fi for residents. The citywide wireless broadband project builds on the wireless meters and automated meter infrastructure (AMI) that Honeywell has installed…

The Wall Street Journal has an article on cities in the US where large-scale Wi-Fi networks have been deployed and are being used: Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, San Francisco and Philadelphia. Oklahoma City’s network is devoted to public safety, Minneapolis is a…

Want a detailed explanation of the recent launch of WiMax services in Baltimore, and how WiMax’s combination of speed, mobility, and innovative pricing might satisfy the growing consumer demand for an always-on Internet experience? Then download the Sidecut Reports Consumer…