Tag: Wireless

February 13, 2017

Millions of New York City subway riders have a solution provider to thank for network connectivity access while underground for the first time. Transit Wireless, a subsidiary of BAI Communications, designs, builds and operates cellular, Wi-Fi and fiber-based technology solutions. […]

December 23, 2016

The Department of Defense’s research arm wants to push wireless communications capabilities underwater and underground, exploiting little-used and difficult-to-access ultra-low frequencies. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said it will talk with companies on Jan. 6 during an industry day […]

December 8, 2016

Verizon FiOS has begun offering services to customers in Boston, Massachusetts, and services should be available to 25,000 homes and businesses in the city by the end of the year. Verizon mostly stopped expanding FiOS fiber-to-the-home service in 2010 and […]

October 7, 2016

Europe’s largest semiconductor chip maker, ST Microelectronics (ST), has partnered with Massachusetts-based WiTricity to develop integrated circuits for wireless power transfer. WiTricity pointed to the deal as indicative of how chip makers are taking note of wireless charging as a […]

October 4, 2016

Google Fiber today said it has completed its acquisition of Webpass, a wireless Internet service provider that will figure prominently into its plans for deployment of high-speed Internet. But the Alphabet division is not giving up on fiber, saying it […]

September 21, 2016

AT&T on Tuesday announced a low-cost, high-speed wireless internet technology that relies on plastic antennas positioned along medium-voltage power lines. The signals will not travel through the conductive materials inside the power lines, as with more expensive technologies that were […]

September 12, 2016

At last week’s CTIA Super Mobility show, it took someone from outside the mobile business to point out what could be a nagging question: Why, exactly, do we need the faster speeds of 5G wireless? Keynote speeches at CTIA, the main […]

September 1, 2016

Six years after it aggressively launched Google Fiber, the company could be feeling the effects of the high price tag and slow deployment process associated with rolling out fiber-optic networks. Those difficulties, coupled with competing carriers that are thwarting Google’s […]

July 22, 2016

The Federal Communications Commission voted to adopt a flexible framework to make wireless spectrum bands above 24 GHz available for 5G commercial use, and the White House announced a $400 million research plan led by the National Science Foundation that […]

July 21, 2016

When lots of people gather for concerts or sports events, cellular carriers often bring their networks to the scene with cell towers mounted on trucks, or COWs (cells on wheels). Not to be outdone, Comcast is joining the fray using […]

May 6, 2016

Open standards used to deploy Internet of Things (IoT) technology could cut costs by 30% and accelerate the growth of smart cities, according to a new research report. Machina Research estimated that cities around the world deploying smart tech for […]

April 15, 2016

Google Fiber is testing a few wireless technologies in an effort to build a wireless home Internet service that would complement its fiber broadband, according to a company executive. Craig Barratt, a senior vice president at Alphabet who oversees Google […]

April 14, 2016

5G wireless is coming, but it has a lot of challenges to overcome, and we’re not going to be enjoying its blazing speeds until 2020 at least. But, at cable industry group CableLabs’ InformED Wireless event on Wednesday in New […]

March 23, 2016

On the heels of the federal government’s warning about automotive cybersecurity vulnerabilities, a group of German vehicle security researchers has released a study showing many wireless key entry systems are vulnerable to hacking. Munich-based ADAC (Allgemeine Deutsche Automobil-Club) performed the […]

February 23, 2016

Facebook executives have long made it clear that they want everyone on the planet to use their social network. If they have to spend time and money to accelerate wireless performance to help make that happen, they will. As of […]

February 1, 2016

Controversial technology that lets LTE networks use unlicensed spectrum could become a trusted part of the enterprise IT toolkit in a few years. So-called unlicensed LTE has come under fire ever since the news about it first broke more than […]

December 22, 2015

The fight over LTE networks using the same frequencies as Wi-Fi may be headed toward a peaceful resolution at last.Powerhouses of the wireless world that have clashed over LTE in unlicensed spectrum are now committed to creating tests for whether […]

November 5, 2015

The Wi-Fi Alliance, an industry group that certifies Wi-Fi products for interoperability, has highlighted the importance of the technology to the daily lives of Americans ahead of a testing summit that will try to shed some light on potential conflicts […]

October 30, 2015

If using a PC docking station feels like being tied down with an anchor, it’s time to break the chains with a wireless docking solution that lets you wander your office – hassle and wire free. Wireless docking solutions make […]

October 6, 2015

LTE-U is a technology developed by Qualcomm that lets a service provider broadcast and receive signals over unlicensed spectrum, which is usable by anybody – specifically, in this case, the spectrum used by Wi-Fi networks in both businesses and homes. […]