06.6.08

Free Wireless Internet Close To Becoming Reality

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (Kevin Martin) announced yesterday a delay in the voting on his proposal to auction an unused piece of 25 megahertz wireless spectrum. The winnin…

01.20.08

Rogers Wireless Finally Has Semi-Decent Data Plans

Rogers, the only GSM carrier in Canada at this writing, has finally rolled out something resembling a reasonable data plan (warning: PDF link). Granted, it starts at CAD $65 for 1 GB of data and wor…

12.11.07

In Flight Text Messages to Reach 60 Million in 2010

Just days after the first commercial testing of JetBlue's in-flight Wi-Fi service, the soon-to-be released study of Freesky Research projects that airline passengers will send more than 60 million…

12.8.07

JetBlue Bringing (Extremely Limited) WiFi To The Skies

Jeff Goldman on our sister blog The Wireless Weblog let's us know that JetBlue will be testing WiFi on an LAX-to-SFO flight on the 11th of December (Tuesday). Several other US airlines have announ…

04.3.07

T-Mobile US Partnering With Sony for PSP Wi-FI

According to Telephony Online, t-mobile and Sony are partnering to put software to access T-Mobile's hotspot network in the next firmware upgrade made available for the handheld media device. The …

10.13.06

Free Broadband! In the Air…

I reported earlier that Boeing plans to pull the plug on its in-flight broadband service, Connexion. At the time, there were rumors of another provider taking over the service.

This morning I got an…

08.18.06

Boeing Unplugs Connexion: End of In-flight Broadband?

In-flight broadband has been one of the few redeeming parts of flying long-haul to Europe in the past few years. In fact, I had taken to choosing routes where it was available in order to staying plug…

08.16.06

No National Google-Fi US?

According to the New York Times, Google is waving off rumors it will expand its free Wi-Fi initiative from its home area in California to a nationwide program. Google will open in Silicon Valley wi-fi…

08.11.06

Sprint Nextel Drops the WiMax Bomb

Sprint nextel announced this week that they are putting $1 billion per G (make that $4 billion) into rollout of WiMax in the US and development of infrastructure and devices with Intel, Motorola and S…

08.9.06

Spectrum Auction Starts Hot in US

The FCC's auction of new spectrum in the US has gotten off to a busy start with 168 bidders lined up for 1,122 licenses for 90 Mhz spectrum in many US markets. Lots of new players have piled in wi…