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RSS dsl in newsWiMax - spreading to more UK businesses
News Like the company Freedom4 - a spin-off from the former Pipex Wireless - On-Communications is offering fixed WiMax as a cheaper, wireless alternative to symmetrical DSL. On-Communications has said it has decided WiMax is the best technology for... [10 Jul 2008]
Femtocells to speed arrival of next-gen mobile networks?
News Industry association body the Femto Forum and operator community group the Next Generation Mobile Networks (NGMN) Alliance have announced they will work together to ensure the DSL-piggybacking tech works with next generation mobile networks from... [30 Jun 2008]
Femtocell market hotting up
News Femtocells - aka mobile base stations which piggyback off DSL to boost mobile reception indoors - could have inched a little closer to the consumer's living room. Agreeing principles for interoperability between femtocell access points and femto... [21 May 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News However, according to Patel, WiMax is not going to be a "competitor to 3G or DSL", rather it will form a new market and all the technologies can happily co-exist. Speaking at a roundtable discussion yesterday, Ashish Patel said the long-range... [09 May 2008]
WiMax to make it as a 'last-mile' broadband tech?
News WiMax could be used as a 'last mile' substitute tech for DSL broadband by 47 million people within five years, says a new report by analyst Juniper Research. Report author Howard Wilcox said in a statement: "WiMax can deliver broadband not only to... [01 Apr 2008]
T-Mobile injects cash into femtocells
News They route 3G and GSM cellular calls onto a fixed DSL connection, therefore improving indoor coverage while taking the strain off the operator's networks. T-Mobile has invested in the UK-based femtocell manufacturer Ubiquisys. [04 Mar 2008]
Specsavers eyes up savings with Vanco deal
News The five-year deal will cover 800 sites across six countries and, using DSL technology, will allow Specsavers to increase the bandwidth and capacity of its network. High street optician Specsavers has signed a £4.5m deal with network operator... [19 Feb 2008]
BT wi-fi phones fail to light a fuse with consumers
News According to an article in The Daily Telegraph newspaper, the BT Fusion phones - which route calls off the cellular network and onto DSL-based connections where available - have found just 45,000 takers in the consumer sector, despite widespread... [07 Feb 2008]
Vodafone explores femtocell potential?
News However, femtocells are designed to improve 3G mobile-broadband coverage by rerouting data use off the operators' cellular networks and onto wired DSL connections where possible. The spokesperson said: "While there are obvious potential advantages... [28 Jan 2008]
T-Mobile cosies up to femtocells…
News Femtocells are small cellular base stations that make us of DSL to boost signal coverage indoors. Mobile operator T-Mobile is to kick off trials of femtocell technology in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK in the second quarter of this year. [17 Jan 2008]
Commercial WiMax on the council?
News Run by a council-owned business called ConnectMK, the service offers local residents and businesses a wireless alternative to the relatively expensive symmetrical DSL (SDSL) connections. However, the commercial side of the business provides an... [19 Dec 2007]
Femtocells to cure 3G headaches?
News He added: "By eliminating transition costs by utilising DSL connections already in people's homes and getting the unit price down to a very low level, it could be a more cost effective way to deliver services. [26 Nov 2007]
VoIP-over-3G to make some noise
News I see operators becoming somewhere between 'accepting' and 'resigned to it' on laptops - it is very difficult to say 'it's just like DSL but you can't use Skype'," he said. VoIP-over-3G will be far more successful than the voice-over-wi-fi approach... [19 Nov 2007]
Will Apple's iPhone drive citywide wi-fi?
News EarthLink built a whole business model on selling wi-fi broadband service as a replacement for DSL or cable modem service. Apple's iPhone and other wi-fi enabled handsets coming into the market could boost demand for citywide wi-fi networks, said... [24 Oct 2007]
Fibre - coming to a home near you
News Despite rising interest in the high-speed bandwidth FTTH provides, Europe is still "entrenched" in the slower DSL technology, which uses existing copper networks to deliver broadband to homes, the report said. [10 Jul 2007]
