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Sprint, Concourse reach Wi-Fi roaming pact

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. reported a roaming agreement with Concourse Communications Group L.L.C. to begin offering Wi-Fi services at several U.S. airports including LaGuardia, Minneapolis-St. Paul International, Detroit Wayne County Metropolitan, JFK and Newark Liberty Airports.Sprint also announced the deployment of its own Wi-Fi...

McDonald’s launches Wi-Fi trial in Idaho

BOSIE, Idaho-Public broadband service provider Wayport Inc. launched Wi-Fi service in a dozen McDonald's restaurants in the Boise, Idaho, area, providing customers with high-speed wireless Internet access. The launch is one of six U.S. Wi-Fi tests McDonald's is conducting this year and follows up...

Sprint details Wi-Fi coverage, pricing

OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. reported the availability of its previously announced PCS Wi-Fi Access service in hundreds of locations across the country, including all Wayport Inc. airport and hotel hot spots and select Airpath Wireless locations. Sprint also announced its first owned and operated...

Sprint PCS adds Cometa as roaming partner

Sprint PCS reported a deal with Cometa Networks that will allow Wi-Fi Access subscribers to roam onto select Cometa hot spots, which are expected to include more than 250 locations in Seattle by the end of this year.Sprint PCS, which announced its PCS Wi-Fi...

Ex Mobility Networks chiefs start new Wi-Fi effort

Out of the ashes of failed Wi-Fi startup Mobility Networks rises a new effort, Azaire Networks Inc., a company with much of the same technology and staffing but with a slightly different-and wider-business focus."We're not just focused on wireless anymore," said Naveen Dhar, vice...

Boingo, Wayport expand hot-spot networks

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-High-speed wireless Internet service provider Boingo Wireless Inc. announced its roaming system will include more than 2,600 hot-spot locations within the next three months. A new agreement with STSN Inc., which provides wired and wireless high-speed Internet access at hotels and conference...

Boingo, Wayport expand hot-spot networks

SANTA MONICA, Calif.-High-speed wireless Internet service provider Boingo Wireless Inc. announced its roaming system will include more than 2,600 hot-spot locations within the next three months. A new agreement with STSN Inc., which provides wired and wireless high-speed Internet access at hotels and conference...

Alternative 3G solutions try to gain followers

While most wireless operators are in the midst of launching third-generation wireless data services using traditional base stations over licensed airwaves, an increasing number of smaller, independent companies have begun deploying high-speed wireless data services using unlicensed spectrum and both proprietary and standards-based technologies...

As carriers look at Wi-Fi, Wayport wins

The massive hype surrounding Wi-Fi has forced the rest of the nation's wireless carriers to follow T-Mobile USA Inc.'s lead or risk being left behind. But in the dust cloud blown up by such haste, it's hard to distinguish one player from the next."I...

SBC to integrate Wi-Fi with Cingular network

SBC Communications Inc. said it plans to deploy more than 20,000 Wi-Fi hot spots in 6,000 venues during the next three years and create an integrated Wi-Fi and next-generation wireless service with Cingular Wireless L.L.C. that will allow customers to move between the Wi-Fi...

Verizon signs Wi-Fi roaming agreement with Wayport

BEDMINSTER, N.J.-Verizon Wireless reported a roaming agreement with Wayport Inc. that will allow the carrier's customers to roam onto Wayport's more than 650 wired and wireless high-speed Internet access locations across the country at speeds of up to 1.5 megabits per second.Verizon Wireless said...

Sprint PCS offers Wi-Fi as defensive move

Interest in Wi-Fi technology surged again last week as Sprint PCS announced it will begin offering a Wi-Fi solution later this summer that initially will provide its customers with access to high-speed Internet services in more than 800 locations across the country and plans...

McDonald’s to expand Wi-Fi services

Fast food giant McDonald's Corp. is expected to expand its Wi-Fi initiative into the San Francisco Bay Area this week, according to the Wall Street Journal.The report noted the company planned to roll out its Wi-Fi service in 75 restaurants this week and has...

AT&T Corp. to bolster Wi-Fi hot spots

AT&T Corp. said it will spend $500 million this year to improve customer experience, including an extension of its business customers' secure corporate intranets to Wi-Fi hot spots at airports and hotels nationwide. AT&T was one of the original investors in wholesale Wi-Fi company...

Palm to add functionality to Tungsten C

SAN DIEGO-Palm Inc. announced agreements with several companies to add voice over Internet Protocol, Wi-Fi and authentication software to the Palm Tungsten C handheld.VL Inc. will deliver VoIP technology to the Tungsten C via its Gphone solution. Linksys, Wayport and WiFinder will offer solutions...

Wayport opens business center in Philly airport

AUSTIN, Texas-Public Wi-Fi access provider Wayport opened a new Laptop Lane airport business center at Philadelphia International Airport.The business center's private offices include Internet connections for notebook computers, desktop computers with Internet access and business software, phones with unlimited long distance and conference-calling capability,...

Verizon activates 150 NYC hot spots

NEW YORK-Verizon Communications Inc. activated 150 of a planned 1,000 Wi-Fi transmission stations throughout New York City, which the company said would allow its Verizon Online customers to have access to high-speed Internet services up to 300 feet from the so-called Verizon HotSpots located...

Wayport gets Palm Beach resort contract

AUSTIN, Texas-Wayport was chosen to provide high-speed Internet access at The Breakers Palm Beach resort.Since April, guests have been able to connect to the Internet from 140 guestrooms, the lobby and the business center. The resort's remaining 420 rooms will be included in the...

WiFi coming to New York airports

NEW YORK-LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy and Newark airports, all operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, will have public and private wireless local area network access by year-end.Concourse Communications, Springfield, Mass., has begun deployment of the neutral host network at...

Wayport to provide wireless Internet at L.A. hotel

AUSTIN, Texas-Wayport Inc. will provide wireless Internet access in meeting rooms and common areas and wireline access in the 1,354 guestrooms of The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites in Los Angeles' downtown financial district.Wayport provides wireless and wireline Internet access at approximately 525 major...

Hammons hotels to get Wi-Fi from Wayport

SPRINGFIELD, Mo.-Wayport Inc. will provide wireline Internet access in the rooms of 52 John Q. Hammons Hotels by summer, with Wi-Fi access in the common areas to follow at an as-yet-undetermined time.Hammons' hotels include Embassy Suites, Marriott and Renaissance properties. Wayport provides wireline and...

Wayport to add business centers at Oakland International Airport

AUSTIN, Texas-Wayport, which provides wireless and wired Internet access in airports and hotels, said it will open two Laptop Lane airport business centers at Oakland International Airport.The business centers will provide travelers with private workstations with wired high-speed and dial-up Internet connections for notebook...

Wayport announces service in Loews Hotels

AUSTIN, Texas-Wi-Fi high-speed Internet access provider Wayport Inc. said it will provide wireless and wired service in seven Loews Hotel properties across the country.Loews Hotels in Philadelphia, New York City, Miami Beach, Nashville, San Diego, Denver and Annapolis, Md., now will have Wi-Fi access...

Wayport to provide Internet Access at eight Embassy Suites hotels

AUSTIN, Texas—Wi-Fi service provider Wayport Inc. will provide high-speed Internet access in the meeting facilities and common areas of eight Windsor Capital Group Inc.-managed Embassy Suites hotels, Wayport announced.The hotels are located in Orange County, Calif., Seattle, Las Vegas, Detroit, Portland, Ore., and Cincinnati.Wayport...