Market research from Ubiquiti Networks sees a strong, perceived link between mobile WiFi Internet access and productivity: while 48% of respondents in a recent survey graded WiFi availability and performance in their hometown a ‘B’, 70% said their productivity suffers when WiFi isn’t readily accessible...
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Broadband service operators globally are increasingly making use of residential gateways to provide wireless delivery of multiscreen (mobile phones, PCs and tablets) video to viewers in the home. The percentage of operators offering such services through residential gateways will grow fast, reaching 50% by 2014...
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Incorporation of Wi-Fi functionality into small-cell base stations “will be a game changer for cellphone service providers,” affording them the means to offload traffic from heavily congested channels while “linking together billions of devices into a single network architecture,” according to a new report from...
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Competitive Companies, the developer of high-performance Wi-Fi equipment, is an unfamiliar name in the telecom industry. But I would expect that to change moving forward, as the company is doing some interesting things on the municipal network and smart city front that also could be...
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Comcast on April 26 launched its latest Xfinity Wireless Gateway, which boasts of delivering the fastest in-home wireless network speeds in the nation and the most coverage throughout customers’ connected homes. The largest U.S. Internet Service Provider (ISP) also announced it has boosted the speeds...
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Nothing like a little gigabit fiber to stir up the competition in any given market. Austin, Texas is becoming somewhat of a broadband competitive hotbed ever since Google announced their intention to bring Google Fiber there. In a phrase, the natives are restless. First AT&T...
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A Wi-Fi roaming agreement between AT&T and Boingo announced yesterday aims to provide a greater level of convenience for AT&T customers when they are traveling. The Boingo hotspots at major international airports will be available only to customers who subscribe to one of AT&T’s Data...
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Data caps and issues with connectivity are limiting the potential boost to worker productivity afforded by the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) phenomenon, according to the latest Mobile Workforce Report from iPass, a provider of mobility services for enterprises and telecom service providers. More than...
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When the FCC last year got the ball rolling on a voluntary incentive auction of television broadcast spectrum, comments made by various commissioners suggested that one of the most difficult issues to resolve would be how much spectrum to make available for unlicensed use. And...
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Dire predictions of crashing mobile networks and chronic network overload due to mobile spectrum shortage haven’t come to pass, thanks in large part to technologies such as HSPA+ and LTE that enable mobile network carriers to use spectrum more efficiently, says a new report from...
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Cable industry non-profit research and development consortium CableLabs March 12 announced that it has licensed new Wi-Fi application software developed in conjunction with Cablevision and other member companies to mPortal for distribution to the cable industry. To be incorporated in mPortal’s Wi-Fi product suite, the...
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Global shipments of multimedia home gateways (MHGs) will surge more than 100-times higher from 2011-2015, driven by demand from pay-TV service operators looking “to unify the delivery of different forms of video content to all types of devices in homes, including media tablets and smartphones,”...
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