Topic: ISPs, Costs and Charges
The new items published under this topic are as follows.
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.
BusinessWeek
By Carol Matlack and Andy Reinhardt in Paris
CEO Breton's dizzying pace has investors betting on France T?l?com
At 11 p.m. Paris time on Dec. 4, the mobile phones of France T?l?com's (FTE ) 50 top managers worldwide lit up with a text message.
Kristen Hinman The New York Times
Near Sille-le-Guillaume, a rural patch of western France, Ginette Sybille moves some 8,000 fowls, 150 swine and 120 head of cattle on and off her 395-acre (160-hectare) farm each year. She conducts most of her business with slaughterhouses in the region, but each time an animal changes hands, Sybille has to register the transaction online with the government.
RCR Wireless News
PARIS?France Telecom has announced a Wi-Fi initiative, saying it plans to implement the technology to complement its current businesses, including mobile GPRS/UMTS services.