Devicescape has long offered a crowdsourced network of hotspots to carriers that have adopted a “Wi-Fi first” attitude, which aims to move as much traffic as possible of the expensive cellular… Read more »
While it might seem like common sense that Wi-Fi would outpace LTE, the opposite is actually true in many countries. U.S. LTE speeds are slow, according to OpenSignal, but they are… Read more »
Austin’s M87 is trying to turn smartphones into extensions of the mobile network, sending mobile connections hopping from device to device before hitting the tower. Qualcomm has taken notice. Read more »
While the data paints a good picture of the state of the current 4G device base, newer souped-up networks are delivering faster absolute speeds. Read more »
Mobile broadband MVNO Karma has been running its social bandwidth experiment for six months, allowing anyone to connect to any of its customers’ WiMAX hotspots for free. So far it’s had… Read more »
Open Garden is now supporting multi-hop mesh networking in its app. That means your devices won’t just share connectivity with each other but with your neighbors’ devices and with their neighbors’… Read more »
Deutsche Telekom is considering investing in Fon, the crowdsourced Wi-Fi provider. Though the deal is far from certain, DT could benefit greatly from a close relationship with Fon’s millions-strong Wi-Fi community. Read more »
Mobile network testing startup RootMetrics has aims on international expansion, and the first country to get its hybrid-crowdsourcing treatment will be the UK. By combining drive tests, indoor measurements and crowdsourced… Read more »