BT, UK Wi-Fi network enter roaming pact

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Sprint and SBC announce Wi-Fi roaming
pact

Sprint and SBC announce Wi-Fi roaming
pact 08/27/2004 01:31 PM
SiliconValley.com Aug 27 2004 1:45PM GMT

Sprint, SBC Announce Wi-Fi Roaming Pact

Sprint, SBC Announce Wi-Fi Roaming Pact 08/27/2004 01:39 PM
A Sprint-SBC deal will let customers use both companies' wireless Internet connections with less hassle.

Singapore Telecom, NTT DoCoMo In Wi-Fi
Roaming Pact -2-

Singapore Telecom, NTT DoCoMo In Wi-Fi
Roaming Pact -2- 03/08/2004 11:22 PM
Yahoo! Mar 8 2004 10:56AM GMT

Yahoo BB Opens Wi-Fi Network for
Aggregator Roaming

Yahoo BB Opens Wi-Fi Network for
Aggregator Roaming 06/30/2004 12:35 PM
Yahoo BB's 636 Wi-Fi hotspots in Japan will be available to GoRemote, iPass, Boingo customers: The joint venture of Softbank and Yahoo Japan will expand to 5,000 locations by March 2005, the article says. While the hotspots are currently free on a trial basis, Yahoo BB customers will pay 40 yen or 37 cents per minute to use locations outside the network, an enormously higher rate than NTT's competing domestic service. It's also unclear how Yahoo BB customers will gain access to iPass aggregated locations, for instance....

Deutsche Telekom Plans Worldwide Roaming
Network

Deutsche Telekom Plans Worldwide Roaming
Network 07/06/2004 11:56 AM
T-Systems has 10,000 hotspots in the network they're talking with: Tony Smith writes that there are plenty of aggregated networks deployed or in the works, and execution will be the factor for T-Systems just as with the other announced players. He sums it up neatly: We've heard similar bullish statements from other Wi-Fi companies with an eye on this level of partnership, but all anticipated announcement dates have come and gone without a peep....

Roaming the Net

Roaming the Net 05/10/2004 01:06 PM
USA Today May 10 2004 5:05PM GMT

Roaming is Hot Topic of the Day

Roaming is Hot Topic of the Day 12/05/2003 01:54 PM
">Roaming is a key requirement for Wi-Fi to take off but this writer is clueless: She seems to think that Intel's Centrino marketing program has something to do with roaming when really it's just an advertising push. The focus of this story is on technical challenges to roaming but she's missing the main issue. The technical challenges are small compared to the need for service providers to make agreements with each other so that a subscription to one service lets users access virtually any available hot spot. With those deals in place, more customers are likely to sign up for susbscriptions. She also includes some shameless promotion of a company that does business with her publisher. She cites Zinio as a "chief" player in marketing value-added Wi-Fi services. It looks to me like Zinio reformats magazines so that they look nice on handheld devices. What on earth does that have to do with roaming?? What a poor example of journalism....

Vodafone 3G Roaming

Vodafone 3G Roaming 05/04/2004 05:17 AM
3G May 4 2004 8:51AM GMT

Roaming Comes to Starbucks

Roaming Comes to Starbucks 12/17/2003 07:20 AM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 17 2003 6:37AM ET

Roaming robots

Roaming robots 07/25/2004 09:08 AM
Chicago Tribune Jul 25 2004 12:15PM GMT

Roaming nomad

Roaming nomad 03/25/2005 05:16 PM
First public release

Fast Roaming Standard

Fast Roaming Standard 01/26/2004 01:57 PM
I wrote a short article for Infoworld about the proposal for a fast roaming task group: If the IEEE approves the request, which most involved think it will, a new standard will be hammered out to speed up hand-off. The current mechanism for hand-off in the 802.11 specification isn't fast enough to support voice calls or other multimedia applications. Today vendors have their own proprietary ways to speed up roaming but they hope to come up with a standard way to do it. Contrary to some earlier reports, Cisco told me that they are supportive of the effort. If the standard ends up being very different from the way Cisco currently handles roaming now, the company will support both the standard and its own technology. Hopefully the standards process will create an efficient and fast way to do hand-off. While writing a different story for Infoworld about voice over WLANs, I found that most of the proprietary ways to support fast hand-off weren,t totally ideal. An improved hand-off mechanism may encourage more voice over WLAN implementations....

Wi-Fi-to-Cellular Roaming Still on Hold

Wi-Fi-to-Cellular Roaming Still on Hold 08/30/2004 06:31 AM
Phones and services that will allow users to roam between Wi-Fi and cellular networks are still on hold, in spite of a joint plan by Motorola, Avaya and Proxim to offer a converged wireless device and the infrastructure to support it by year's end.

Hooray for Roaming Deals

Hooray for Roaming Deals 12/02/2003 04:55 PM
Boingo Wireless strikes deal with Concourse to add a handful of airports to Boingo's network: Now Boingo customers can use Wi-Fi in LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, and soon Detroit-Wayne county and Minneapolis/St. Paul. Boingo previously had access to these networks via its partnership with Wayport, but Wayport's relationship with Concourse has been severed in several airports. In other related news, Sprint said that its PCS customers can access Concourse's networks in those same airports. Sprint also has deals with Airpath, Cometa, Wayport, and Truckstop.net, and has built a Wi-Fi network in the Kansas City International Airport. Now if only Sprint and Boingo would get together......

SMS 2003 Roaming Boundaries

SMS 2003 Roaming Boundaries 05/25/2004 04:37 PM

On the Rails: Rolling Without Roaming

On the Rails: Rolling Without Roaming 01/16/2004 11:33 AM
When Amtrak is a second office, is there a mobile carrier of choice?

3's 3G Gets Ofcom Roaming Boost

3's 3G Gets Ofcom Roaming Boost 07/23/2004 06:21 AM
3G Jul 23 2004 9:10AM GMT

Roaming Poised to Expand

Roaming Poised to Expand 11/06/2003 12:46 AM
The Wall Street Journal says T-Mobile near signing a roaming agreement (link good for 7 days): The article reports that roaming is starting to become an inevitability. I'm curious whether T-Mobile envisions a model in which there is fee settlement across networks, or it's free roaming. The TeliaSonera model cited in the article involves one bill, one account, but usage fees outside of the home network range of Finland and Sweden and certain TeliaSonera-operated hotspots in other Scandinavian countries. I stand by my prediction: within a year, all U.S. networks will have substantial inter-network roaming agreements that will allow unlimited usage by subscribers for $30 per month or less. The marginal but vital additional value of Wi-Fi will enhance cellular and landline businesses, and possibly that of wired ISPs, but it won't have the standalone value that some misguided souls believe it does today....

Sprint PCS Keeps Roaming, Isn't Building

Sprint PCS Keeps Roaming, Isn't Building 07/16/2004 08:19 PM
Sprint PCS quietly sloughs off its own building plans?: This article notes that Sprint PCS said it would have access via 2,100 access points within a year. True. But they told me that 1,300 of those would be locations that they built out themselves. In this Wi-Fi Planet article linked above, the general manager of wireless LAN service for Sprint PCS -- not the person in this role last summer -- said, We are not deploying those ourselves. But that's not entirely accurate: they're building Truckstop.net locations via their managed services division, and then Truckstop.net is operating those locations and allowing Sprint PCS to roam on them. So they're not deploying, but they are building and supporting....

3G Video Roaming for Vodafone

3G Video Roaming for Vodafone 06/29/2004 03:43 PM
3G Jun 29 2004 6:43PM GMT

US Wi-Fi operators inch towards roaming

US Wi-Fi operators inch towards roaming 07/26/2004 10:58 AM
SBC, Sprint strike deal

Wi-Fi to Cellular Roaming Stalled

Wi-Fi to Cellular Roaming Stalled 08/30/2004 09:56 AM

eWeek has an interesting article talking about the hurdles the new VoIP Wi-Fi and cellular-switching phones may have penetrating the market. Even though companies like Motorola are developing systems that allow cellphones to switch seamlessly to Wi-Fi, the thought is that the savings provided to corporate infrastructure might be moot as cellular rates continue to drop. Of course, the people who really want this service are regular consumers like you and me, even though we are probably going to be the last people to get it (it may be more realistic to cheer on Verizon and other carriers to offer high-speed cellular networks like EV-DO and EDGE).

But interestingly, hospitals may be the earliest adopters of the Wi-Fi/cellular switching phones, specifically because of the dangers cellular radios can cause to sensitive medical equipment. If the phones switch to Wi-Fi, they can control the power levels to be weaker and (presumably) safer.

Read - Wi-Fi-to-Cellular Roaming Still on Hold [eWeek (Yahoo)]

3G roaming deal signed

3G roaming deal signed 03/22/2005 11:50 PM
Gulf Daily News Mar 23 2005 4:09AM GMT

SK Dominates Roaming Service

SK Dominates Roaming Service 07/11/2004 08:49 AM
Hankooki Jul 11 2004 11:41AM GMT

US researchers turbocharge Wi-Fi roaming

US researchers turbocharge Wi-Fi roaming 04/14/2005 01:42 PM
vnunet.com Apr 14 2005 4:28PM GMT

Near-Seamless Handoff for 802.11 Roaming

Near-Seamless Handoff for 802.11 Roaming 04/14/2005 10:03 AM

Two University of California San Diego scientists have developed a better way of seamlessly handing off 802.11 roaming, making it possible for people from one hotspot to another without dropping connections. That's important not so much for data, which can handle a dropped packet here and there, but for streaming audio, video, and voice-over-IP.

The SyncScan solution proposed by Savage and Ramani is a method to continuously monitor the proximity of nearby 802.11 access points. Instead of looking for surrounding access points just when the current signal is running low, a Wi-Fi device with SyncScan regularly checks signal strengths nearby -- but only for very short periods of time. These times are picked to precisely coincide with regularly scheduled "beacon" messages sent by all standard Wi-Fi access points. The process eliminates the current need to start from scratch when looking for a stronger signal, and replaces the long scanning delay with many small delays that are imperceptible to the user.

Faster handoff between Wi-Fi networks promises near-seamless 802.11 roaming [EurekAlert]

Here Comes 'a Broader Roaming Era'

Here Comes 'a Broader Roaming Era' 02/18/2004 03:47 AM
Business Week Feb 18 2004 7:18AM GMT

Making Wireless Roaming Fun

Making Wireless Roaming Fun 04/12/2004 04:56 AM
Games exploiting mobile phones' GPS capabilities are becoming popular in Japan and Europe, and Mogi -- a virtual treasure hunt -- has players teaming up to cover Tokyo. By Daniel Terdiman.

BT inks new Wi-Fi roaming deals

BT inks new Wi-Fi roaming deals 06/05/2005 11:41 PM
Have lappy, will travel

DoCoMo roaming on loan

DoCoMo roaming on loan 04/29/2004 07:14 PM
infoSync Apr 29 2004 10:29PM GMT

Group Forms for GSM/Wi-Fi Roaming

Group Forms for GSM/Wi-Fi Roaming 09/03/2004 05:49 PM
A group of operators and vendors have formed a group to work out seamless roaming between GSM and Wi-Fi networks: The group hopes to develop a specification and work with standards organizations for a formal standard. The three big GSM operators in the United States, AT&T Wireless, Cingular, and T-Mobile are part of the group as are Motorola, Nokia, Siemens, and others. While the creation of a standard is a step in the right direction, there doesn't seem to be any mention on the group's Web site of any work toward backend billing and settlement between operators. The issue of arranging business deals between operators seems to be a more difficult hurdle than the technical issues of such roaming. Also, notably absent in the list of participants are many of the leading Wi-Fi operators. T-Mobile and British Telecom are part of the group but none of the other large Wi-Fi operators. It's always hard to tell when these groups pop up if they'll just fizzle away or actually accomplish what they set out to. There is certainly a need for work on Wi-Fi/cellular roaming so hopefully this group will be successful....

SBC Brews Wi-Fi Pact

SBC Brews Wi-Fi Pact 07/20/2004 02:58 PM
Internet News Jul 20 2004 7:02PM GMT

Mobile roaming rates are 'unfair'

Mobile roaming rates are 'unfair' 07/27/2004 05:51 AM
Two of Britain's biggest mobile phone operators are accused of unfair pricing and could face fines of tens of millions of pounds.

NetNearU Fosters Roaming Among Its
Resellers

NetNearU Fosters Roaming Among Its
Resellers 06/03/2004 05:18 PM
Turnkey hotspot system operator allows its resellers to roam freely if they wish: NetNearU is one of several companies that provides turnkey hotspot equipment to single venues or resellers who then equip locations. The network has always allowed roaming with a single login across its entire network for existing users, but settles fees set by each network based on usage. Now, NetNearU is allowing resellers who want to offer free roaming to do so by signing a revised agreement. In an interview Wednesday with Wi-Fi Networking News, NetNearU's director of marketing David Comer said in this new model, "End users don’t ever have to work about being charged." So far, five reseller networks have signed up, including Cafe.com in Los Angeles, CEDX in the New York metropolitan area, providers in Seattle, Chicago, and Israel. The initiative was spearheaded by Cafe.com's Ronan Higgins. Comer said, "He really came up with some good business points as to why--as he calls them--the middle-tier operators should provide free roaming to their users to go wherever they can." Craig Plunkett, CEDX's managing principal, said in an interview, "It gives us the same bilateral roaming that FatPort and Surf and Sip put together." Plunkett noted that previously, a roaming customer would take revenue from his network and settle it on the destination network. With the new agreement, "If that guy is a monthly customer of mine, I don’t have to worry about paying Ronan [of Cafe.com] the entire revenue stream for the month." Currently, NetNearU resellers have to opt in or out of the agreement, and Comer said that the company is about to start actively marketing the idea to its wider groups of customers. For "each licensee or network operator, it’s their own business to run," Comer said. "It really helps the smaller licensees to a certain extent to compete against Boingo, or to have some kind of added value or added attractiveness. Because it just makes you as a smaller guy appear larger," Comer said. NetNearU resells service on a per-session basis to Boingo, iPass, and GRIC. Comer noted that customers of a given network would be able to see which locations they could roam freely onto through a link on the login screen which NetNearU dynamically updates as revised contracts are received....

Notes and Tips: Roaming Car Killers

Notes and Tips: Roaming Car Killers 07/14/2004 10:04 AM
Your car could be disabled by rogue radio operators - here's an example.

Vodafone Germany kicks off 3G roaming

Vodafone Germany kicks off 3G roaming 05/03/2004 12:22 PM
infoSync May 3 2004 3:39PM GMT

TeliaSonera Adds Portugal to Roaming

TeliaSonera Adds Portugal to Roaming 06/07/2004 01:45 PM
The Europeans call it football, but it's still football fever: Sweden and Finland's combined telecom giant TeliaSonera has extended its extensive roaming agreements by adding 200 hotspots in Portugal that are part of the PT Wi-Fi and TMN networks just in time for the Euro2004 soccer (US)/football (everywhere else) championship. HomeRun users now can access 6,500 hotspots in Europe through roaming agreements, although it's wise to note that that's a single login, but not a single fee: roaming fees are involved for all non-TeliaSonera locations, which now number 700 in its two home countries....

MCI spreads Wi-Fi roaming with Boingo
deal

MCI spreads Wi-Fi roaming with Boingo
deal 12/17/2003 08:27 AM
ZDNet UK Dec 17 2003 7:53AM ET

Broadreach scoops up roaming partners

Broadreach scoops up roaming partners 12/04/2003 01:15 PM
Boingo, iPass, Gric and more
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