June 30, 2006

Taipei boasts largest Wi-Fi network in the world (Digi Times)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

Taipei City mayor Ying-jeou Ma recently highlighted achievements the city has made in establishing an information infrastructure by pointing out that Taipei received the “2006 Intelligent Community of the Year” award on June 9 from the Intelligent Community Forum (ICF) in addition to recently being declared as having the “World’s Largest Wi-Fi Network” by US-based JiWire, a global Wi-Fi hotspot

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TAIPEI CERTIFIED AS WORLD’S LARGEST WI-FI NETWORK CITY (Central News Agency)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

Taipei, June 30 (CNA) Taipei City has been certified by the San Francisco-based JiWire Inc., a leading provider of wireless broadband services, as the “world’s largest Wi-Fi network city.”

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VoIP Over Wi-Fi is an Added Threat to Roaming Revenues (Cellular-News.com)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

Mobile operators must convert the threat Wi-Fi and VoIP poses to roaming revenues into an opportunity by incorporating the technologies into their strategies according to a new report from visiongain.

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Edimax Wi-Fi access point is affordable and powerful (The Inquirer)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

I FOUND that if you’re looking for an inexpensive yet powerful Wi-Fi access point of the 802.11g variety, you should consider the small yet powerful EW-7209APg from Edimax.

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VoIP Over Wi-Fi Helps, Hurts Service Providers (TechWeb via Yahoo! News)

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VoIP over Wi-Fi can be a powerful tool to generate sales, but it can cut into profits, a market research firm reported Thursday.

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Wi-Fi Adoption in China Is Gaining Momentum in Enterprise and Home Markets Monday June 26, 9:00 am ET (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

The enterprise market for Wi-Fi technology in China is expected to increase fourfold, with a 45% annual growth rate for the market as a whole, over the next 3 years according to a new white paper sponsored by the Wi-Fi Alliance.

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Striking up the band for municipal Wi-Fi (Chicago Tribune)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

There is not, proponents of municipal wireless Internet access insist, a “Music Man” aspect to the current rush to go Wi-Fi, a move that could undercut Starbucks shops and current Internet service providers such as Comcast.

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June 29, 2006

Tempe Wi-Fi: Firefighters, police are fans (ZDNet)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

The Arizona city’s police and fire departments are big on a citywide broadband network. Arizona’s Wi-Fi city Police who are online all the time

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‘VoIP Over Wi-Fi will Pose an Added Headache to Mobile Operators’ Roaming Revenues,’ says visiongain Report (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

SAN FRANCISCO & LONDON—-June 29, 2006–Mobile operators must convert the threat Wi-Fi and VoIP poses to roaming revenues into an opportunity by incorporating the technologies into their strategies.

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JiWire Finds Taipei’s Municipal Wi-Fi Network to be World’s Largest (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)

Wi-Fi Watcher wrote this mid-morning:

TAIPEI—-June 29, 2006–JiWire, the Wi-Fi hotspot authority, today announced that its independent research and field audit of Taipei’s municipal Wi-Fi network showed it to be the largest in the world, covering the greatest area and serving the largest population.

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