Posted by admin on Apr 3, 2009 in
Wifi Facts 
Alaska Airlines will sponsor free Wi-Fi at the Oakland airport: The service will be free from 13 April to 5 July, and seems intended to raise the awareness of Alaska’s Wi-Fi trial with Row 44, currently underway.
Alaska seems likely to put Wi-Fi on its planes if it gets a good response from passengers to the in-flight Internet service. Many of Alaska’s routes pass over water, and a satellite-backed service is a good fit if passengers are willing to pay for the privilege. It’s also a way for the no-extras airline to bring entertainment onboard without installing seatback systems.
Earlier stories reported that Alaska Airlines was also sponsoring free Wi-Fi at the far larger Seattle-Tacoma airport. An Alaska spokesperson just told me that information was in error. The free Wi-Fi underwriting is for Oakland’s airport only.
Posted by admin on Jan 17, 2009 in
Wifi Facts As the human Nature , we all love free things . In the like manner Everyone likes free Wi-Fi service .
The Wall Street Journal reports that public libraries are trying to cope with a massive increase in visitors who are looking for various online Facilities . Many are using the libraries’ free Wi-Fi: “Laid off from her job as a bookkeeper at Home Depot more than a year ago, Ms. Miller, 29 years old, says she has visited the library “if not every day, every other day” since October to check job listings with her computer.
Downtown free Wi-Fi gets a boost
Even small towns in Idaho are deploying free Wi-Fi access in the downtown area because residents are demanding it. This is different from the “build it and they will come” theory. This is the “they demand it and we will build it” model. In Treasure Valley, Idaho, a trucker uses free Wi-Fi service for email, looking for directions, research.
The town of Meridian has set up a downtown hotzone: “What we’re starting to see as a consumers is people who want to come out and have lunch outside in the nice weather. They are really expecting to be able to access their e-mail and surf the net for free,” said Shaun Wardle, with the Meridian Development Corporation. A third town, Nampa, will be rolling out free downtown Wi-Fi service, too.
People these days are developing a logic that ” Save 200 - 1000$ by terminating the broadband and using a public wifi hotspot”
Posted by admin on Jan 10, 2009 in
Wifi Facts Row 44 is flying some journalists around in an old plane to show off their satellite-based service: At CES, the LA Times’s David Colker was flown up in a 1950s seaplane to test the offering. But, more importantly, Row 44 told him that public tests will finally take place on Alaska and Southwest scheduled flights this month. (Colker’s closing paragraphs make it seem that he hasn’t heard of Internet service from Aircell on American, Delta, and Virgin, limited as that service currently is.) Row 44 has been talking about its plans for at least two years. The firm says it has cheaper equipment that’s far faster than Boeing’s, even though it uses the same Ku-band satellite communications. The company told me long ago that they have cleverer transponder licenses that don’t lock them into the same cash-hemorrhaging situation that Connexion found itself in.
Posted by admin on Jan 3, 2009 in
Wifi Facts In Sweden last year, the rail service taking from Malmö to Linköping offered WiFi on the trains, utilizing a combination of satellite, 3G and GSM for the uplink. Soon Japan will be taking things to the next level when NTT Communications offers WiFi service on the N700 high-speed bullet trains!
The mechanism for this is pretty cool: a leaky coax “wire travelling alongside the bullet train track from which signals can be sent and received wirelessly.” Throughput is expected to be about 2Mpbs, and monthly subscriptions will run from ¥500 (about $5.60 USD) per day to ¥1,680 (about $19 USD) for a monthly subscription.
Passengers on Japan’s super-fast bullet trains will be able to surf the Web while travelling at 270 kilometers per hour thanks to a new service that will start in March.
NTT Communications will offer Wi-Fi service throughout cars on the new N700-type trains that offer the fastest rail link between Japan’s two biggest cities of Tokyo and Osaka. The service will be an extension of the company’s HotSpot service, which already offers access in shops, restaurants, hotels and other locations across Japan.
Connections of around 2M bps (bits per second) will be possible through the service, which will be provided by a “leaky coax” — a wire travelling alongside the bullet train track from which signals can be sent and received wirelessly. At the same time NTT will also launch access in waiting lounges on all 17 stations along the route
Posted by admin on Jan 1, 2009 in
Wifi Facts CNet is reported that Delta will add WiFi service to some of its flights in 2009. Initially available on shuttle flights, long-term plans are to make WiFi available on all 330 planes in Delta’s domestic fleet. Expect to pay $10 on flights up to 3 hours, and $13 on flights over 3 hours.
Delta has selected AirCell for providing the signal, but other companies, like Row44, are offering WiFi solutions to airlines, too. American Airlines, JetBlue and Virgin Atlantic all have plans in the works to put WiFi onto airplanes, so Delta’s announcement comes as no real surprise.
