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Last week it was airports being added by Boingo. This week they’ve added ferries and ferry terminals in Washington State.
As PhoneBoy points out, the costs have been lowered and subscribers…

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Motorola is clearly not just thinking about cellular phones these days. They’re busily moving into a full blown WiFi VoIP handset that works with a very robust server and lots of security…

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Yesterday client Boingo acquired OptiFi, another aggregator/operator of airport hotspots, much like Boingo’s Concourse Communications purchase, and their buy of Sprint’s airport hotspot…

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Yesterday the news was about iPhone users getting free access to AT&T hotspots. Now today, I spotted that CrunchGear has a report about free BlackBerry access too for those with WiFi enabled…

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SF Bay Area based Devicescape have rolled out EasyWiFi, a simple to install, easy to use WiFi and Access Point login aggregation application that stores your usernames and passwords safely in…

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I’ve had the good fortune to use WiFi on the Heathrow Express when I’m in London. The experience, which is made possible by T-Mobile connects train mounted access points to 3G radios…

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PC World reports that the long awaited 802.11r standard has been finalized and approved by the IEEE, the standards body that determines much of what goes into our personal electronics and communications…

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When traveling abroad for business, it can get quite pricey to use your cell phone for international calls. But you don’t have to incur heavy fees and charges for using your phone out of your…

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TechCrunch reports that Aircell is launching WiFi in the Sky today.

As a person who used to choose his flights by which airlines had Airfone and later which airlines offered the ill fated Boeing…

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This is the kind of story I like to see, not only because it has direct benefit to clients (Truphone and Boingo) but also because one of the company’s whose advisory board I sit on Agito, is…

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What Earthlink couldn’t make work, Meraki is going to turn into reality.

Venture Beat reports that 100,000 people have logged on. This is a start…

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The WiFi Alliance is now certifying devices for VoIP over WiFi as part of a new standard 802.11r that’s coming to us in the future. While this is good, it’s too little too late. Earthlink tried…

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This shows how technology illiterate some people at American Airlines must be.

Blocking a widely used IM service and comparing it to a cell phone.

Ok. If they want to block the voice traffic…

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I’m a Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport and I can’t use a lot of programs on my Mac to connect to cloud based services like my Gmail account using MailPlane (but I can get to the mail via the browser…

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A lot is being said about so called Free WiFi when really what we’re starting to see is "complimentary" WiFi being offered by AT&T and Starbucks, in exchange for your purchase at…

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With the transition from T-Mobile to AT&T occuring as who the WiFi provider to coffee shop operator Starbucks rolls out, AT&T continues a series of so called "free" or premium…

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I’ve used WiFi on the Heathrow Express that works with T-Mobile (and gotten the bill for it for 12 minutes of use each time) so I’m happy to see that a company called WiFi Rail is hoping to offer…

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Earthlink is bagging it in Philadelphia and wants to take their equipment home. Damn carpetbaggers. But, I recall saying at a past MuniWiFi event that given what I know about the politicians…

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I’m sad to report that Philadelphia is losing their WiFi.

Esme Vos has the news..I’m sure there’s going to be more to the story…

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I was picking some friends up at San Diego International Airport this past Thursday and took my Mac Book Air along as I knew they might be delayed. Having experienced their anemic speeds befor…