Congress wants U.S. regulators to hurry up and open a chunk of federal 5.9 GHz airwaves for commercial Wi-Fi, which would let more smartphones, tablets and laptops milk faster speeds out of wireless… Read more »
It looks like Comcast customers are in for another price hike, this time not on programming charges but on the fees they pay to rent our broadband modems. Several Comcast customers… 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 »
Some 60 companies and organizations took part in planning meeting for the city’s payphone Wi-Fi project in May. We won’t know if Google is really serious about running the 10,000-hotspot network… 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 »
In this part of our special report on reinventing the internet, a look at how the wireless networks of the future should evolve to handle a world in which mobile computers… Read more »
TWC has launched the first large-scale implementation of Hotspot 2.0, which will make public Wi-Fi networks behave like cellular networks. You log into the network once and you’ll be instantly connected… Read more »
Comcast is compounding its extensive Wi-Fi network with even more Wi-Fi. But these new hotspots aren’t coffee shop and outdoor access points. They’re inside its broadband customers’ homes. Read more »
Obama and the FCC are both calling for more unlicensed spectrum to fuel the tech economy. That kind of advocacy from the administration is just what we need in a government… Read more »
It’s highly likely that regulators will approve the massive deal to combine the nation’s top two cable companies. This is a bad deal for consumers, innovation and even U.S. broadband. Read more »