Monthly Archives: February 2014

Bringing Experience Continuity to the People

By Birdstep In workshop’s held during the Carrier Wi-Fi Summit at Mobile World Congress, Birdstep unveiled Experience Continuity and its role as the OTT differentiator for Telecos, MSO’s, OEMs and MVNOs.

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2019-05-09T12:28:14+01:00February 25th, 2014|WBA Blog|

By operating the world’s most comprehensive network of 105 countries, Turkish Airlines concluded a comprehensive partnership with TTNET, the leading internet company of Turkey.

Turkish Airlines passengers will be able to access the internet on the sky with TTNET Wifi Fly as from April. A partnership agreement was concluded yesterday between Turkish Airlines and TTNET in a ceremony hosted by Turkish Airlines at Turkish Airlines’ Headquarters with the participations of Chairman of the Board at Information and Communication Technologies

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2019-05-09T12:28:14+01:00February 24th, 2014|Member Releases|

Sprint to use Wi-Fi to offer cutomers free calls and messaging

The mobile network Sprint is set to launch a service which will allow users who have certain handsets to send SMS messages and make phone calls for free by using the Wi-Fi networks available to them. The Wi-Fi Calling feature will initially only be available to customers with a Samsung Galaxy Mega and a Samsung

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2019-05-09T12:28:14+01:00February 21st, 2014|Industry News|

Almost half of London Underground stations connected to Wi-Fi scheme

Nearly half of all London Underground stations are now able to connect to Virgin Media's Wi-Fi service, as it has just been rolled out to another ten stations. According to cable.co.uk, 131 stations are now part of the scheme, but Virgin Media is working to eventually extend the service to all 275 London Underground stations.

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2014-02-21T15:54:17+00:00February 21st, 2014|Industry News|

New York subway Wi-Fi service extended to 40 more stations

Phase two of the New York subway Wi-Fi rollout has begun and 40 more stations are to receive Wi-Fi access, allowing customers to browse the internet whilst underground. According to pcmag.com, Transit Wireless, which is in charge of the service, will start phase two by rolling out Wi-Fi to 11 more stations. This means that,

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2014-02-21T14:00:20+00:00February 21st, 2014|Industry News|

Free Wi-Fi helping to boost the UK economy

Efforts to make free Wi-Fi more widely available in the UK's biggest cities could play a part in boosting the country's regional economies while also protecting and creating jobs, it has been claimed. Broadband infrastructure projects are being orchestrated across the UK, with the organisers of many focusing heavily on making free Wi-Fi accessible to

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2014-02-20T11:53:24+00:00February 20th, 2014|Industry News|

Sochi Olympics dubbed the first ‘truly connected’ games

The Russian city of Sochi is currently playing host to the Olympic Winter Games and has been dubbed the first 'truly connected' Olympics by a Forbes journalist. It has welcomed over 40,000 athletes, journalists and Olympic staff for the duration of the Games, theregister.co.uk reports. Not only does the city's Wi-Fi network have to be

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2014-02-19T16:28:32+00:00February 19th, 2014|Industry News|

THAI becomes first airline in Thailand to offer Wi-Fi onboard

Passengers on-board select Thai Airways International (THAI) aircraft can now browse the internet whilst they fly, as the airline has become the first in Thailand to offer on-board Wi-Fi connectivity. According to bangkokpost.com, THAI also claims it is the fifth airline in all of Asia to offer Wi-Fi to its customers. Nok Air and Thai AirAsia

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2014-02-19T14:21:07+00:00February 19th, 2014|Industry News|

London boroughs to team up with Arqiva for free Wi-Fi service

Four London boroughs are gearing up to offer a free Wi-Fi service to residents in the area, according to whatmobile.net. Harrow, Haringey, Barnet and Brent are teaming up with infrastructure firm Arqiva to provide the hotspots. The discrete access points will draw from both 3G and 4G signals to provide Wi-Fi to passers by. The

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2014-02-19T12:04:33+00:00February 19th, 2014|Industry News|

Nothing stopping Wi-Fi from launching into space, insists organiser

One of the leaders of Outernet, an ambitious project which aims to beam free global Wi-Fi from space, says there is nothing stopping his team from achieving their mission. Aaron Rogers, Branko Vukelic, Edward Birrane and Syed Karim are looking to boldly go where no Wi-Fi provider has gone before by launching hundreds of 10cm cube-shaped

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2019-05-09T12:28:14+01:00February 19th, 2014|Industry News|
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