There are so many people to thank over the years for their help with this blog. First and foremost is my good pal Nancy Gohring, who now writes for IDG News Service, who spent a couple of years working as a freelancer for me during our heyday, and has been a supporter of the blog from beginning to end. Also, the many, many community wireless folks with whom I spent inordinate amounts of time speaking and visiting, primarily from to , when that movement was at its peak.
Esme Vos of Muniwireless. Klaus Ernst has been a long-time correspondent and a great friend of the site, filing reports about his first-hand experiences with so many ostensibly launched and working Wi-Fi networks in Manhattan—that never seem to measure up to snuff. I so appreciate the support everyone has given me over the decade in running this site.
The blog will stay up forever. I have no plans to pull down archives. But I doubt there will be a new post here unless the market shifts again and there's a need for it. Taco Bell will add free Wi-Fi and entertainment systems to its 5, US stores: I've been wondering for years, as loyal readers know, why McDonald's was the only of the large quick-service restaurants to do a full-chain adoption of Wi-Fi.
The system will be part of adding damned television sets to the "dining rooms. I also know there's a cost involved in all this, but the rollout will take four years. Which means that when complete in , McDonald's will have had a full-chain US deployment for something like 7 or 8 years longer.
There's no discount, but you can use your Boingo account to pay for in-flight Internet: This is a nice move, long expected, which links up two popular offerings for business travelers.
Boingo has a variety of service offerings which may include either unlimited or high-usage access to various parts of the globe. The Gogo connection lets you use the same Boingo software, account, and linked credit card to pay for in-flight Internet access at the same retail rate as other passengers. One would hope Boingo could negotiate a better rate by reducing Gogo's marketing burden to bring customers in the future.
Cablevision's member-only Optimum WiFi service now offers up to 15 Mpbs down and 4 Mbps up: The network is free to Cablevision's broadband subscribers, and restricted to them, although the firm also allows some roaming from other cable providers' customers, and has free and open hotspots here and there.
The company tells me it has 10,s of access points in place across its New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut markets, along with 7, hotspots in business locations that are Cablevision customers. Over , Cablevision customers have used the network so far. Wi-Fi networks, even at With It's a several-year deal, apparently. The rest are coming this summer. Bryant Park has long had free Wi-Fi, delivered through a series of hands, and it's been an apparent success as part of the terrific revitalization of a public space that was once abandoned to drug deals.
It's unclear where these two plans intersect. A number of different parties worked together to make the Dumbo Wi-Fi zone happen: the neighborhood improvement district, the Two Trees Management Company for site placement and funding , and NYCwireless.
More details are available at the Dumbo NYC site for that neighborhood. Alaska Airlines says its Gogo Inflight Internet installation on most planes: A handful of aircraft won't feature service, mostly those carrying freight. Facebook access will be free through June, and the airline has a game promotion as well.
Ah, this brings back memories: Cast your mind way way back to , when Tempe, Ariz. The city, which already had its own wireless ring for city backhaul, put out a tender for a firm to provide a combination of public and private services. Neoreach won the bid, and built some of the network out as it shifted through names and subsidiaries, winding up with Gobility as the ultimate owner when the network failed.
Gobility had oceans of issues unrelated to this network. While the network hasn't been operational even in part since , the gear was left all over town. If the nodes were abandoned, Tempe alleged, then Tempe would be granted ownership. CCC disagreed, because it hoped to sell the system with the nodes still in place. CCC sued to have the nodes returned to it after ridiculous attempts were made by it to sell the network. The case ran from Feb.
The money assuages the fact that the 4—5-year-old hardware is likely nearly unusable. It should be mostly Strix Systems gear, which appears to still be a going concern, even though its "news spotlight" page refers only to events in There's likely some backhaul equipment from other makers.
This is the last gear hanging that I'm aware of from the olden days of — that isn't in active use, such as the network in Minneapolis. The wireless backbone provider Towerstream will flip on a dense Manhattan Wi-Fi network: Towerstream built a wireless network in the skyline, paying for prime locations on the top of buildings to point high-speed service at line-of-sight locations where conventional wired or even fiber broadband wasn't available, would take too long, or wasn't competitive or reliable enough.
Now it's taking aim at Wi-Fi. But it's not trying to be a metro-scale Wi-Fi operator. That would be foolish. The firm is deploying 1, routers, and the backhaul is clearly its own building-top network. Being able to leverage its own backhaul is a distinct financial advantage, as it already has a business model that works for the point-to-multi-point service it offers today.
This is icing on the cake. Towerstream will sell access to the network to carriers looking to offload mobile 3G and 4G traffic from congested, expensive cellular networks to Wi-Fi. Towerstream could become a vendor-neutral cost-effective alternative to carriers building these "heat sinks" for high bandwidth usage themselves. Phone users benefit from this offloading as well as carriers. But one setting kept popping up to the top of the list: this is the one setting every iPhone user should disable because it drains your battery.
Instead, you can buy your own modem and router to own your own device and avoid that monthly fee. This post Wi-Fi 6 is the latest generation of Wi-Fi, and it It's the end of life for certain devices on January 4. Blackberry devices will no longer reliably function, "including for data, phone calls, SMS and functionality, the company announced.
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