Topic: ISPs, Costs and Charges
The new items published under this topic are as follows.
NEW YORK May 13, 2003 -- Subscribers to Verizon Online's digital subscriber line (DSL) Internet access services now have next-generation computer networking features at their fingertips with higher speeds, Wi-Fi (wireless fidelity) access and state-of-the-art software from MSN, all at a new, low price.
CUPERTINO, CA (May 13, 2003) - Portal Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: PRSF) today announced that T-Mobile USA is using Infranet?, Portal's convergent billing solution, to support T-Mobile's WiFi (802.11) services, the most widely available public network of its kind with more than 2,200 HotSpot locations across the United States. T-Mobile's strategic selection of Portal was critical in supporting its growing WiFi business because of Portal's ability to quickly accelerate time to market for its wireless LAN services and help T-Mobile create market advantage in this new and rapidly growing segment.
Pleasanton, CA, May 12, 2003 - Pronto Networks, a leading provider of carrier-class OSS solutions for large Wi-Fi hot spot networks, today announced that Alvarion Ltd. (NASDAQ:ALVR), a leading provider of Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) solutions, is integrating Pronto Networks' Public WLAN solution into one of its products. Under this agreement, Alvarion will sell Pronto's carrier-class public WLAN infrastructure solution as part of its end-to-end solution for large public Hotspot networks.
By Maria Kowalewska
From the Warsaw Business Journal
Mobile operators Polska Telefonia Cyfrowa and Polkomtel are gearing up to offer wireless fidelity service, after rival PTK Centertel along with IT firms IBM and Intel launched the country?s first Wi-Fi hot spot at Warsaw?s Novotel Airport hotel.
from pmn.co.uk
T-Mobile USA is working with Kinko's, the document and business services provider, to deploy Wi-Fi hotspots in over 1000 locations throughout North America. T-Mobile's Hotspots (hot-spots) service is already available at Starbucks, Borders and numerous airports.
From businessweek
Published by news.com
The start-up company names a permanent chief executive as it looks to continue the expansion of hot spots nationwide.
Cometa Networks Tuesday named Gary Weis president and chief executive and moved interim CEO Larry Brilliant to a vice chairman role.
By Ben Charny, Staff Writer, CNET News.com
AT&T Wireless wants to worldwide expanssion.
The company, looking to win over more international dialers, announces a slew of new roaming agreements with wireless carriers in about 100 different countries.
NEW ORLEANS--AT&T Wireless made a bid to capture more international phone dialers by announcing a slew of new agreements with wireless carriers in about 100 different countries.
FT, Orange to offer Wi-Fi through hotels
from rcrnews.com
March 13, 2003 12:50 PM EST
PARIS-France Telecom and Orange France have entered into an agreement to deploy their Wi-Fi hot spots at 900 Accor hotels, including Sofitel, Mercure, Libertel, Suitehotel, Ibis, Etap and Formule 1.
From Faz.net
HANNOVER. Deutsche Telekom subsidiary T-Mobile wants to become the world's largest operator of wireless local area networks (W-LANs) by end-2003. In Europe and the United States, T-Mobile will set up 3,000 new W-LAN hotspots this year, said T-Mobile Chairman Ren? Obermann at Cebit on Wednesday. This would increase the number of T-Mobile's stations for the new transmission technology to 5,500.
By Eric Griffith
Managing Editor 802.11-Planet
February 19, 2003
This week Proxim released the latest branch of its Tsunami family of outdoor point-to-point and point-to-multipoint connection devices.