Enterprise Wi-Fi provider Aruba Networks announced three customer wins: Oil States International; two hotels in Seattle; and the Fashion Institute of Technology’s New York campus. In the case of FIT, which is part of the state university system, the coverage involves buildings with an average height of 10 stories, a fast-growing bring-your-own-device issue with student, [...]

Smartphone and tablet users will connect to Wi-Fi without even realizing it as new technologies enable Wi-Fi access points to communicate directly with the cellular networks. Samsung’s redhot Galaxy S4 smartphone ships with the latest Wi-Fi connectivity solutions, and component makers say more handsets like it are on the way. Hotspot 2.0 is the Wi-Fi [...]

Continuing the march toward more heterogeneous networks, the CTIA show has seen a series of announcement on the evolution of Wi-Fi in wireless networks. Ubiquiti released a report on the state of Wi-Fi that reflected nearly half of users giving the technology a “B” grade in their hometowns, and fully 70% saying workplace productivity was [...]

The world’s largest wireless network equipment vendor is kicking off CTIA 2013 with a suite of new carrier grade Wi-Fi solutions, further committing itself to a market that analysts say is poised to take off. “The carrier Wi-Fi space is red hot right now,” said Richard Webb of Infonetics Research. “[It's] driven by the explosion [...]

Third-generation and “4G” wireless networks are facing a severe capacity crunch caused by massive data demand created by smart phones and tablet devices. Deployment of macrocells will not solve the problem since most of the demand is generated indoors. Service providers are moving towards heterogeneous solutions (3G/4G/Wi-Fi) consisting of a dense network of femtocells, picocells and metrocells [...]

A major milestone for the new Hotspot 2.0-era for seamless roaming between Wi-Fi and cellular networks: the new Galaxy S4 smartphone from Samsung ships with enabled Passpoint, which is the Wi-Fi Alliance’s designation for devices that  support the Hotspot 2.0 standard. According to Ruckus Wireless‘ blog, the Galaxy S4 is the first device to do [...]

RCR Wireless News Editor-in-Chief Dan Meyer was joined by esteemed guests, including long-time industry analysts Roger Entner, former FCC Commissioner Harold Furchtgott-Roth, former Senior Attorney with the Competition Division in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel Lawrence Spiwak and former FCC Wireless Bureau Chief Fred Campbell in taking a look at the regulatory challenges facing [...]

Wi-Fi provider Boingo Wireless now has a global Wi-Fi roaming agreement with AT&T. The partnership expands AT&T’s hotspot access abroad, while allowing Boingo customers in the United States to use a wider range of hotspots through AT&T’s Wi-Fi network. Boingo said that its hotspots at major international airports are available to AT&T customers immediately, with [...]

Service providers have been buffeted by the explosive growth in data traffic. Meanwhile many networks remain highly siloed and are becoming more complex even as service providers move to converge infrastructure and adopt more flexible cloud-based approaches. In this webinar, we’ll share some of the challenges that service providers have been facing, cover the key [...]

Welcome to this week’s roundup of HetNet news. The city of Santa Clara, Calif., turned on free Wi-Fi service last week as part of an electrical grid project. Silicon Valley Power, the city’s municipal electric utility, is providing Wi-Fi access as part of its SVP MeterConnect program. Advanced wireless meters will be installed at residences [...]