The two companies will devote a combined total of more than 200 silicon, hardware and software engineers to work on wireless LAN technologies. Adapter cards, chips and network access points will be developed, based on the IEEE 802.11 wireless...
Wireless local area network (LAN) technology is inferior to its wired up cousin. Wai Sing Lee, analyst for Frost & Sullivan who issued the report, said: "Wireless LAN technology will not be able to match or surpass the speeds of fixed cable...
Wireless LAN, Wi-Fi, AirPort, 802.11b - call it what you will, it's the king of the playroom. Matchbox cars? Star Wars figures? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? How about Lego? A week after Christmas, when the fragile plastic toys were broken and the...
These tariffs are relatively expensive compared to the US, where public wireless LAN services have been available for some time. US wireless LAN company Boingo charges $74.95 (£49.77) for an unlimited monthly access package.
Analysys also recommend mobile operators embrace the public wireless LAN revolution, warning three to 10 per cent of non-voice revenues could be lost to these rapidly emerging networks. The clear message is that most people who want a mobile phone...
Wi-Fi will be used more as a customer loyalty strategy, helping retain customers for other services - potentially bad news for those with business models based purely on charging for access. Predicting around a tenth of the world's population will...