High Speed Internet Factsheet

Reuters – The small high-speed wireless Internet provider founded by mobile pioneer Craig McCaw also posted a quarterly loss on Friday that was five times wider than a year ago as its expenses ballooned. Sprint — under pressure from investors to scale back its More Here

AZCentral.com – TUCSON- Tucson appears close to hanging up plans for a citywide wireless Internet system. A potential citywide wireless Internet system was studied earlier this year Some City Council members were interested in adding wireless access for those who More Here

Fergus Falls Daily Journal – The Pelican Rapids Public Library has gone wireless. A wireless Internet access point, otherwise known as WiFi, is now available at the Library with no cost to its users. Students, business people and other owners of laptop computers can surf the web More Here

MSN MoneyCentral – The operators are struggling to react and diversify their services into content rich services that include features such as music downloads and wireless broadband internet access. NewMarket, in many instances is a larger organization or of More Here

Forbes – Running a Linux-based operating system, Nokia Internet Tablets offer easy wireless connections, high resolution display and support for a wide variety of Internet applications, such as Internet calling, instant messaging and email. “ACCESS is More Here

MSN MoneyCentral – One need that drove its decision to deploy Siemens’ HiPath Wireless network was to sharpen its competitive edge by offering ubiquitous, mobile Internet access. “Wireless broadband across campus is a great selling feature to attract students to More Here

New York Post – The nation’s third-largest wireless carrier just announced that its $5 billion plan to develop the first ultra-fast “fourth generation” wireless Internet network based on WiMax technology has hit a snag. As a result, Sprint is terminating its deal More Here

Times-News – Alamance County s first outdoor wireless network could start by the end of the year in Graham, or some time in the spring in Mebane. It really depends on who gets wired first. MebTel Communications is working out the details of a contract with the Cont

MSN MoneyCentral – RoomLinX signed a Master Premium Service agreement with Roberts Hotel Group in 2006 for RoomLinX to provide enhanced wireless Internet Support and Maintenance Services to properties that are a part of the Roberts Hotel Group portfolio. RoomLinX Cont

ZDNet Blogs – Mergers & Acquisitions , Blogging , Telecom & Utilities , Telecommunications , Internet , Wireless , Investment , Finance , Russell Shaw Rich Tehrani , Om Malik and others have been blogging about the bizarre-sounding but not implausible possibility that Cont

Deccan Herald – Part of Google s strategy appears to be that the Android software will lead to new kinds of devices that have cellphone and wireless Internet functions, but have shapes and sizes different from today s cellphones and PCs. Intel, an alliance member Cont

RTT News – Wireless, internet, and disk drive stocks are also seeing some weakness. After climbing above the unchanged line in late morning trading, the Nasdaq has recently slipped back into the red and is currently down 1.24 at 2,626.70. Meanwhile, the Dow is Cont

Multichannel Online – Agriculture Department has been providing loans to broadband providers in rural markets where cable and possibly phone companies already offer high-speed Internet access, undermining competition and the intent of the loan law. Evidently, the Senate Cont

Boston Globe – in New England, where military bases are few and hostility to the war runs high. And so they’ve sought out one another through the Internet and late-night phone calls on two buried 155mm artillery shells that had been wired together, a “Ramadi speed Cont

Bloomberg – Telecom Argentina SA, the country’s second-biggest telephone company, led the index’s gain after it said third-quarter profit tripled on an increase in mobile and high-speed Internet customers. Telecom surged 11 percent, the most since Aug. 17, to 15 Cont

Quincy Herald-Whig – Congressional candidate Jim McConoughey believes that high speed Internet, energy and transportation issues are important throughout Central and Western Illinois. McConoughey, a Republican from Dugan, visited Quincy on Friday as part of his campaign Cont

MSN New Zealand – The commerce commission has released its final pricing terms for Telecom to unbundle the local loop. Telecom is being forced to allow competitors to hire its copper phone wires for high speed internet access without the need for a separate agreement Cont

This is Preston – The gadget combines a touch-sensitive mobile phone handset with a built-in iPod media player and a wireless internet browser. O2’s Sales director Mark Stansfield said: “We’ve hired and trained hundreds of new iPhone specialists who will be in all O2 Read More

MSN MoneyCentral – AT&T ranked as the top telecom service provider in 2006, before providing digital cable services. AT&T is a global communications and entertainment company that offers business communication services, wireless, high-speed Internet, voice services Read More

HULIQ.com – AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) has announced a change in how, when and where people access the Internet , use e-mail or view a variety of entertainment services by offering the 3G wireless broadband service in Boise, Meridian and Nampa, all of which are part of Read More

MSN UK News – The iPhone is about to hit UK shelves, with Carphone Warehouse predicting it will be their busiest sales day ever. The Apple product combines a touch-sensitive mobile phone handset with a built-in iPod media player and a wireless internet browser. It Read More

MSN MoneyCentral – Under the Bell brand, the Company’s services include local, long distance and wireless phone services, high-speed and wireless Internet access, IP-broadband services, information and communications technology services (or value-added services) and Read More

Forbes – Under the Bell brand, the Company’s services include local, long distance and wireless phone services, high-speed and wireless Internet access, IP-broadband services, information and communications technology services (or value-added services) and Read More

Network World Fusion – But during that time, the tidal wave of enthusiasm for metroscale wireless networks, especially for Internet access, may have crested in the United States. San Francisco s plan dissolved in suspicion and political in-fighting Read More

National – Daltron is currently Papua New Guinea’s leading WiFi provider and has already “wired up” buildings such as Ela Beach Tower, Deloitte, Pacific Place, Monian Tower, Somare Foundation and Investwell House to use its Wireless Internet Cont

Daily Reflector – The Greenville City Council tonight will get an update on the municipality’s experiment with free wireless Internet. Also, Greenville Utilities is slated to provide an update on the ongoing drought and how it affects local customers. The city rolled Cont

Times Online – Some of Europe s main mobile operators yesterday dismissed Google s plans for transforming internet access on wireless devices, insisting that they are better off going it alone. The head of one leading mobile network, which is not participating Cont

ZDNet Blogs – Posted by David Berlind @ 3:52 pm Categories: General , Open Source , Software Infrastructure , Mobile , Personal Technology , Wired & Wireless , Apple , Telephony , Web technology Tags: Google Inc. , Microsoft Office Live , Handset , Rich Internet Cont

Boston Globe – Since his house has wireless Internet access, he often starts in the family’s living room and puts down his laptop when one of his three children wants to play. “Then I might move into the kitchen and talk with my wife – I can still interact with Cont

Forbes – The company focuses on wireless communication and entertainment devices that leverage the Internet and the explosion of Wi-Fi networks, while removing the dependency on the family computer. Zipit Wireless’ first product, the Zipit Wireless Messenger Cont

RTT News – The investment from SK Telecom will enable Helio to continue to deliver innovative products and services to the wireless Internet marketplace. Subject to regulatory approvals, SK Telecom will make an initial investment of $70 million equity Cont

Silicon Republic – 07.11.2007 – The awarding of the contract for an operator to deploy broadband to cover the remaining 15pc of Ireland currently neglected by providers under the National Broadband Scheme will not be announced until the second quarter of next year, it More Here

MSN MoneyCentral – Today, Coastal Broadband, a subsidiary of Podium Venture Group (Pink Sheets: PDVP), announced a partnership agreement with Digitel Wireless (”Digitel”), a division of the Digitel Corporation. Digitel Wireless and Coastal Broadband have been More Here

TMCnet – WALLINGFORD, Conn., Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ — Verizon Wireless, the leading wireless company with the nation’s most reliable voice and data network, today announced the expansion of wide-area wireless broadband service to ten towns within Connecticut’s More Here

Washington Post – users easier and faster access to the Internet and services the companies provide. Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, said it will provide some of its top-end models _ which allow access to third-generation, or 3G, high-speed broadband More Here

Reuters – NEW YORK (Reuters) – AT&T Inc (T.N: Quote , Profile , Research ) said on Tuesday that it will spend more than planned on U-verse, but scaled back its outlook on how widely the high-speed Internet and video service will be available by the end of next Cont

MSN MoneyCentral – in southern California. WaveDivision is located in Kirkland, Wash. St. Louis-based Charter Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR) is the nation’s third-largest cable television provider, and also provides digital video programming and high-speed Internet Cont

Forbes – High Speed Internet. The acquisition is subject to standard closing conditions, including the completion of due diligence activities, drafting and execution of a definitive purchase agreement, and Board of Director approval. Upon completion of the Cont

American Reporter – Many of us live in rural areas and don’t have high-speed Internet access; has the governor been a leader in getting the state wired? No, he’s been AWOL. Now Verizon is trying to unload all of its land-line phone business in Vermont and leave us Cont

St. Louis Post-Dispatch – It would cost millions before turning a net profit. Irshad Ansari of NI Solutions of Carmel, Ind., told the City Council on Monday that his research found that more than 70 percent of business owners are interested in high-speed Internet services that Cont

Forbes – Each guest suite features a fully-equipped kitchen, a sleeper sofa, large work areas, free high-speed Internet access and free cable television. Guests also enjoy a complimentary continental breakfast, and the Canadian hotels will have an on-site Cont

VNUnet – The third quarter of 2007 was a “bad one” for the UK broadband industry as new subscribers plummeted, market experts reported today. Point Topic estimates that UK ISPs added no more than 470,000 new subscribers from July to September to reach a total More Here

Forbes – The FlipStart PC is a windows based system with Sprint(R) Mobile Broadband, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth(R) wireless technology and a battery life of up to 5 hours. The FlipStart PC combined with the InNovaSound USB Ultrasound probe could become the world’s More Here

Financial Times – Blinkx is planning to develop its own online television service, entering the broadband video market in competition with mainstream broadcasters and well-funded start-ups such as Joost and Babelgum. The Aim-listed video search group, spun off from More Here

Forbes – David Manifold, deputy finance director, joined the group from Perlico, the leading alternative provider of fixed line and broadband services in Ireland, where he held the position of finance director, it added. tfn.newsdesk@thomson.com net/ukn/cmr More Here

The Australian – The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development today said Australia was now ranked 9th for speed, up from 22nd in a comparison with similar industrialised nations. Australia is now ahead of the United States, the United Kingdom and More Here

CNBC – LONDON – British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC reported a 28-percent drop in first-quarter profit on Friday as a dispute with cable provider Virgin Media and higher marketing costs hurt earnings. BSkyB said that investment in new high-speed Internet Read More

Dallas Morning News – Murdoch said he might pay for municipal Wi-Fi even though he has high-speed Internet at home. Wi-Fi, he said, would allow him to trade stocks and surf the Web outdoors. “I would be interested, but it would depend on the speed and Read More

Wall Street Journal – industry by helping to create cheaper phones that can access advanced Internet current users, said it has already embraced an open approach with its high-end For U.S. consumers, Android could speed the arrival of advanced applications Read More

Forbes – NuVisions, a trademark of Microwave Satellite Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of Telkonet Inc., offers “quadruple-play” services, including cable programming, Voice over Internet Protocol telephone (VoIP), high-speed Internet access, and Wi-Fi Read More

Forbes – The connection is made over a high speed Internet connection, and the system provides high quality, real-time audio and video allowing the remote surgeon to effectively view the surgery from multiple cameras while interacting with the surgeon and Read More

Forbes – Expand’s WAN Optimization solution mitigates these limitations and delivers broadband performance to every node on a network.” About Burns & Roe Services Corporation Burns and Roe is a privately held, comprehensive engineering, procurement Cont

MSN MoneyCentral – Alvarion Ltd. ALVR , the world’s leading provider of WiMAX(TM) and wireless broadband solutions, today announced that its Mobile WiMAX(TM) technology has been chosen for the first WiMAX Forum(TM) M-Taiwan WiMAX Application Lab (MTWAL), managed by Cont

BusinessWeek – Until a recent change in the terms of its broadband service again in response to a public flap AT&T claimed the right to terminate the connection of customers for “conduct that tends to damage the name or reputation of AT&T.” Verizon retains Cont

Forbes – Services that can be provided using InSight include a range of innovative video, entertainment, broadband, and multimedia services, and visual voicemail. “We are pleased about this success in the United States cable market, particularly with a Cont