FreedomPop started selling its own Wi-Fi-only phone last year, so it was only a matter of time before the mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) started selling Wi-Fi service. On Wednesday it… Read more »
Time Warner Cable and wireless ISP Boingo signed a roaming deal in June, which allows TWC’s broadband customers to use Boingo’s Wi-Fi hotspots at airports and convention centers and Boingo subscribers to tap… Read more »
The deal isn’t gigantic, adding only about 100 hotspot locations in major transit hubs to TWC’s network, but it could be the beginning of a bigger wireless expansion. Read more »
Two years after being promised seamless connections to public Wi-Fi networks, my iPhone made its first Hotspot 2.0 handshake. It’s a long time coming, but carriers and wireless ISPs are finally… Read more »
We already dump a lot of mobile data traffic onto our home and office Wi-Fi networks, but in the next few years we’ll be tapping Wi-Fi in a lot more places… Read more »
Boingo’s(s wifi) acquisition of military base ISP Endeka appears to paying dividends. Boingo revealed this week that it has won contracts with the U.S. Marines Corps, Army and Air Force to… Read more »
Apple likes to let new radio technologies mature, so it’s hardly a shock that the newest Wi-Fi tech didn’t make its way into the iPad. But we’ll have to wait longer… Read more »
Wi-Fi is becoming a critical part of carrier — phone and cable companies – plans. A new report forecasts a big boom ahead for carrier Wi-Fi hotspots and Wi-Fi networks, which… Read more »
Hotspot 2.0 bolted from the gate more than a year ago, but since then it’s gone nowhere. Boingo is trying to break the stalemate between carriers and device makers by opening… Read more »