San Francisco politicians are proving that they are not really on the cutting edge, but rather in bed with big business like the rest of Washington. The mayor and his cohorts have recently placed a proposition on the November ballot asking the city to vote on a “free” municipal WiFi system. This is a joke. […]

Good news for US Cingular customers who have been waiting patiently for Cingular Wireless to roll out their wireless broadband service using HSDPA technology. Cingular recently announced that they are now offering their Broadband Connect wireless broadband service to a number of major metropolitan areas across the country. They have also included a number […]

I have been using Vonage VOIP service for a few years now and while not 100% perfect, it is very good. The nice part is that you can make free calls to any other Vonage user, but many of my friends are using Skype VOIP service. Skype is just like Vonage, except that […]

It should come as no surprise that companies like Intel are cashing in big time as the popularity of wireless technology and wireless systems grow. Intel Corp has helped popularise Wi-Fi–a powerful short-range Wireless Internet access system by equipping portable computers with it. Now it appears that they have found the next Pentium chip.
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I was just wondering when I can move ahead with my plans for global domination and pick up my Verizon Wireless data plan, card and a Kyocera KR1 router to use as a backup internet connection here. But, it appears that the Kyocera KR1 is still not out. Although I did just notice that […]

Texas Instruments has been involved with 3G phone manufacturers, building custom 3G chipsets, since the early days of 3G. TI has just jumped into the 3G market with both feet, announcing their OMAPV2230 design which contains TI’s own baseband chip, developed in-house, for the 3G phone market. In the past, Texas Instruments built […]

SF Gate reports today that the city of San Francisco will be issuing a request for proposals from network builders to create one of the largest citywide wifi networks in the United States. Mayor Gavin Newsome has made citywide internet access a priority in his tenure in San Francisco.

tags: broadband, san+francisco, wifi, wireless

In an article on Wireless Design Asia, I read the findings of a recent Motorola HSDPA trial conducted in Europe. Motorola concluded three items that are crucial to a successful rollout of HSDPA to provide “mobile broadband”.
First, sufficient processing power is needed. Latency can become a big problem when switching users from a […]

In more 3G HSDPA news this week, Ericsson successfully upgraded Tokyo’s Vodafone commercial network to support HSDPA. The software and hardware upgrades that were implemented support downstream rates of up to 3.6Mbps and 384Kbps up. Unfortunately, for the Vodafone customers in central Tokyo, the HSDPA upgrade has not been activated for commercial use. […]