The 411 on Flights With WiFi

The 411 on Flights With WiFi | Travel News from Fodor's Travel Guides By news@fodors.com For the working traveler—or anyone looking for extra in-flight entertainment—knowing which carriers will keep you connected versus those without WiFi is something to consider before booking. To avoid a surprise e-stranding, here's a list of those (offering WiFi) ... Fodor's Travel News

LG Optimus LTE Headed To Bell Canada | Geeky Gadgets By Roland Hutchinson LG Optimus LTE Other specifications on the LG Optimus LTE include Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and a 8 megapixel camera which is capable of recording full HD video in 1080p, plus WiFi, Bluetooth, DLNA, HDMI and a 1830 mAh battery. ... Geeky-Gadgets

London's CityFibre to build a $800 million gigabit network ... By Om Malik CityFibre, a London-based telecom operator, wants to raise $800 million to build a fiber-to-the-home network and compete with British Telecom in the race to wire up Britain with super-fast networks. It's one of the many upstarts with big dreams ... GigaOM

Verizon's HTC Rezound Mixes Music with 4G LTE By info@brighthand.com HTC has just officially announced its latest music-oriented smartphone, the Rezound. The HTC Rezound will support Verizon's 4G LTE network and will go on sale Nov. 10 for $300 with a new two-year agreement. Brighthand.com Handheld News and Reviews

Maximum PC | Beijing Rolling Out Free Wi-Fi, Just Enter Your Phone ... By Ryan Whitwam wifi Starting alter this month, Beijing will start rolling out a free public Wi-Fi network dubbed “My Beijing.” The service is being supported by three of China's biggest telecom companies; China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom. ... Maximum PC - News

Sprint Mobile Broadband Plans Changing November 13th » Sprintfeed By Mark Hearn LTE plans, Gee, where were they while Verizon was building out LTE, available in how many markets now?, while Sprints' struggles to meet WiMax 4g and talk of 'starting' to build an LTE backbone of it's own…I'm not at all impressed. ... Sprintfeed

Light Reading Mobile - 4G/LTE - Cricket's First LTE Market Coming ... Cricket Communications says it is on track with its LTE deployment plans and will cover 25 ...(NYSE: S), affords the carrier the ability to upgrade to 4G in a thoughtful manner, Hutcheson added..... A Security Hotspot: Growing Use of WiFi Underscores Network Weaknesses ... Handling MobileBroadband Signaling Loads ... www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=214064 AT&T 4G LTE speed report: HTC Vivid and Samsung Skyrocket SlashGear At the moment, AT&T's LTE network is only a fraction of the size of its “4G” HSPA+ network, though it's scheduled to do some growing up on November 6th. Right now only San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Atlanta and Chicago have AT&T LTEaccess, ... Sprint to help finance Clearwire's 4G LTE network BGR Sprint announced on Friday that it will offer new notes due in 2018 and 2021, the proceeds of which will be used in part to finance Clearwire's build-out of a 4G LTE network. “The company intends to use the net proceeds from the offering of the Notes ... Wi-Fi tethering 101: Use a smartphone as a mobile hotspot Computerworld AT&T customers can use the HTC Inspire 4G as a mobile hotspot. I've used phone hotspots in my office, in my home, on trains and in a moving car. Basically, wherever you can get a mobile data connection, you can broadcast it with a hotspot phone. ... Amtrak Gets Savvy With Free Wi-Fi and E-Tickets Fox Business The advances by Amtrak, which include adding free Wi-Fi to the Northeast corridor and introducing e-tickets on its Boston to Portland line, mark its latest effort to chip away at the airline industry. Adding free Wi-Fi to its most popular line ... San Francisco to offer free Wi-Fi on Market Street San Francisco Chronicle It chooses the locations of access points based on demand (residents can add suggestions atsfgov.org/wifi) and cost efficiency. The city has an online map of Wi-Fi sites available to the public (www.sfgov3.org/ftp/survey/wifi_map.html). ... Photo-maker, audio player: hands-on with the LTE HTC Rezound Ars Technica The battery life quoted to us seems low for a 4G LTE phone. A representative said the battery regularly powered the phone for a full day, but LTE connections and the often-demanding Sense UX tend to have their way with phones' batteries. ... Clearwire Shares Soar After Sprint Says It May Provide Funding BusinessWeek Clearwire has also said it needs about $1 billion for its operations and to upgrade its network from theWiMax technology to long-term evolution, or LTE. “We really have one overarching goal which is to get the company to profitability,” Clearwire ... BT switches on more TV viewers and broadband users than Sky The Independent BT outpaced its rivals in the broadband internet market as it picked up 166000 new customers in the third quarter, helping the company beat profit expectations. Wins for the group's television service, BT Vision, also outpaced Sky for the first time ... Sprint Accelerates Roadmap for Network Vision LTE Strategy Gotta Be Mobile Second, moving to LTE will allow Sprint to offer data speeds that are twice as fast as the network's current 4G WiMax speeds, which would open doors for more applications, uses, machine-to-machine and enterprise solutions, especially since Sprint is ... Alepo Partners with Dimension Data to Launch 4G Services in Zimbabwe San Francisco Chronicle (press release) Zimbabwe service provider, Utande, calls on industry experts Alepo and Dimension Data to deploy4G data services over WiMAX, Wi-Fi and high-speed Metro Ethernet. Alepo, a leading provider of control plane & business management solutions for next ... All 4G telcos must hit 98% coverage, Ofcom told Register By Bill Ray • Get more from this author Ofcom should demand 98 per cent coverage from all 4Goperators, rather than 95 per cent from one, and claw back some cash from EE for the spectrum it was given. So says The Ministry of Fun, which took governance ... LTE-flavoured LG Optimus headed to Bell IntoMobile Up in Canada, Bell recently announced their second LTE handset, after the HTC Raider. The LG Optimus has a big screen, lots of power, and high-speed wireless data to boot. Price is expected to be around $150 on a three-year contract, though there's no ... United Continental Holdings Selects Panasonic to Install Wi-Fi MarketWatch (press release) 4, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- United Continental Holdings, Inc. /quotes/zigman/617037/quotes/nls/ual UAL -1.22% today announced that it has selected Panasonic Avionics Corporation to provide Wi-Fi connectivity on more than 300 United Airlines and ... A 4G PlayBook? Don't Hold Your Breath DailyFinance By Motley Fool Staff Posted 3:45PM 11/03/11 Investing BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (NAS: RIMM) promised in June that it would release 4G PlayBooks (LTE, WiMAX and HSPA+) sometime in the fall. Sprint Nextel (NYS: S) has already nixed the idea of ... Fiber Network Business Models, Best Practices Presented in New Research Pack ... Sacramento Bee 3, 2011 -- /PRNewswire/ -- More than 10 percent of the world's broadband households were served by FTTH/B networks in 2010, which will more than double by 2016 thanks to the increasing footprint of fiber networks. Wireline network operators' imminent ... UPC Ireland: broadband subs up 31% in Q3 TeleGeography Irish cable TV, internet access and telephony provider UPC Ireland added a net 32000 broadbandsubscribers in the three months to 30 September 2011, up 31% year-on-year, for a total of 241400. The cableco's new chief executive officer, Dana Strong, ... HTC Radar 4G: The First Windows 'Mango' Phone TheStreet.com We've been lucky enough to get our hands on T-Mobile's new HTC Radar 4G handset and immediately started using it as our "main" smartphone. And after a week or so of living with it, I have to say it's quite a wonderful device. Briefly, it now begins to ... Alvarion acquires carrier-grade WiFi player CIOL This acquisition marks another milestone in the execution of Alvarion's plan aimed at shifting its primary focus from WiMAX-based RAN solutions. Alvarion intends to combine Wavion's beamformingWiFi platform with Alvarion's 4G RAN solution and ... Verizon Wireless Expands 4G LTE Network in Northern New Jersey MarketWatch (press release) "We've been working hard on expanding our 4G LTE network in the New Jersey area ever since we initially launched it back in December of 2010," said Pat Devlin, president of Verizon Wireless, New York Metro Region. "Now, even more residents and small ... Record labels demand BT blocks access to the Pirate Bay Telegraph.co.uk Record labels have issued an ultimatum to BT demand in it blocks its six million broadband customers from accessing the Pirate Bay, one of the world's biggest unlawful download websites. By Christopher Williams, Technology Correspondent The BPI, ... Motorola Mobility launches Wi-Fi tablets in the UK, Ireland Computer Business Review Motorola Mobility has launched two new Wi-Fi tablets - Motorola XOOM 2 and Motorola XOOM 2 Media Edition - in the UK and Ireland. The company said both tablets feature Android 3.2, a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, brilliant displays with Corning Gorilla ... Nokia to setup 26 free WiFi hotspots in London to help spread the word about ... IntoMobile The Finnish handset maker announced earlier this week that they're going to be giving away WiFi connectivity at 26 locations in London in a pilot that will use existing telephone boxes that'll be connected to 20 Mbps DSL lines according to ZD|Net UK. ... More Unlicensed Mobile Spectrum Needed, Group Says PCWorld The value of Wi-Fi to the US is in the "tens of billions of dollars," said Assaf Eilat, a senior economist at economic consulting firm Compass Lexecon. Many rural areas depend on unlicensed spectrum forbroadband, said Stephen Coran, counsel to the ... Outback anger over NBN rollout ABC Online MARK COLVIN: MPs in some outback communities say it'll be almost a decade before they get the National Broadband Network. The Federal Liberal member for Farrer, Sussan Ley, says the town of Broken Hill is one of them. Her party's Leader, Tony Abbott, ... Cricket Introduces the Cricket ZTE AC3781 Modem Sacramento Bee The AC3781 modem provides affordable nationwide mobile broadband access to the user's computer. Customers can access email, internet, text messages and other applications when connecting it to their desktop or laptop computer. ... FCC Ruling Extends Broadband to Rural Areas Alaska Public Radio Network Last week the Federal Communications Commission dedicated a $4.5 billion dollar subsidy fund to providing broadband and 3G access in rural areas. In the past, the Universal Service Fund was used to subsidize rural telephone usage. ... BT Vision is UK's fastest-growing pay-TV service The Guardian Photograph: Anthony Upton/PA BT has outstripped BSkyB in the race for TV andbroadband customers, and pledged to raise the stakes in its battle with the satellite broadcaster by accelerating the rollout of a superfast network that will boost its appeal... AT&T brings free WiFi to eleven NYC parks, untold pigeon ladies ... By Amar Toor In fact, they won't need any contract at all -- just a WiFi-enabled device, a cozy bench and bountiful downtime. Full PR after the break. Show full PR text. AT&T Announces Launch of Free Wi-Fi in Several of New York City's Most Iconic Parks ... Engadget Three's new Wi-Fi hub brings mobile dongle data into the home By Matt Brian usb-side. UK mobile operator Three has announced it will add a new mobile broadband hub to its product portfolio, allowing its customers that already utilise the carrier's mobile data dongles to turn them into Wi-Fi hotspots and share their 3G ... The Next Web LG Optimus LTE headed to Bell Canada | Ubergizmo By George Wong LG's Optimus LTE features a 4.5″ 720p HD display, a 1.5GHz dual-core processor, HSPA+ and 4G LTE connectivity, an 8-megapixel rear camera, 1.3-megapixel front facing camera, Android 2.3 Gingerbread, a 1830mAh battery, HDMI output, ... Ubergizmo dailywireless.org » Free WiFi for Bejing By Sam Churchill It will provide 2Mbps broadband WiFi to approximately 60 percent of Beijing. Some 90000 access points will be installed by the municipal government over the next few years, according to China.org. There will eventually be 480000 WLAN ... dailywireless.org Tiered Data for Sprint Mobile Broadband and Hotspot Plans Begins ... By Quentyn Kennemer The changes affect mobile broadband (dedicated data cards and hotspot devices) as well as mobile hotspot (USB or WiFi tethering with phone) customers. It gets rid of 3G and 4G unlimited data, giving you 3GB, 5GB or 10GB of data usage ... Android Phone Fans Verizon Wireless 4G Speed | Sippy Cup Mom! By Sippy Cup Mom So, you're probably wondering, what exactly is 4G LTE? Forget minutes. With Verizon's 4G LTEspeed, you can access things in seconds. 4G is a technology that will give you speeds up to 10x faster than 3G. With 4G speed, I can download a ... Sippy Cup Mom! More details on Shaw's Wi-Fi network - Page 1 - Communications ... Unlike existing Wi-Fi networks offered in coffee shops, Hotspot 2.0 will have two versions: Standard and secure. The secure network will be encrypted for those who want the best in security. For Shaw's fixed broadband customers (but not ... Daily IT Newswire Follow @exprinet