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SES and Facebook provide high-speed Internet to Sub-Saharan Africa
Lo scorso aprile, uno dei principali operatori satellitari privati a livello mondiale, la Société Européenne des Satellites, SES, ha annunciato un accordo con Facebook per fornire Internet ad alta velocità a 14 paesi dell'Africa subsahariana. Questa...
Tanaza allows you to limit the number of concurrent connected users per SSID
This allows you to limit the number of people connecting simultaneously, and improve your overall network performance.
Free Wi-Fi access in the TGV trains in 2017
The French public railway company, SNCF, chose the French internet operator, Orange, to provide a free Wi-Fi connection on high-speed trains (TGV). The Wi-Fi service should be available in early 2017 in more than 300 selected trains. Guillaume Pépy, director of...
Free Wi-Fi lounge on top of Cape Town’s iconic mountain
On April 14th, the Table Mountain Aerial Cableway Company launched a brand new free WiFi lounge on Cape Town’s iconic mountain. A free Wi-Fi connection is now available 1000m above the Atlantic Ocean level, on Cape Town’s iconic mountain, where visitors get...
Japan’s emergency free public Wi-Fi hotspots
After the 2011 earthquakes in Tōhoku, Japanese Telecom carriers decided to provide free public Wi-Fi hotspots to make communication easier in the affected areas. As a result of the powerful earthquake that hit Japan in 2011, media organizations and mobile phone...
Luma’s home Wi-Fi system for improved broadband coverage
Amazon invests in Luma's new home Wi-Fi system at an affordable price for improved broadband coverage. Amazon, one of the largest retailers in the world, plans to invest its capital in strengthening Wi-Fi coverage throughout homes. Primarily, Amazon wants to...
Google’s Sidewalk Labs plans to build the city of the future
Google's Sidewalk Labs, in collaboration with the Federal Government, plans to use its Big Data to set up the city of the future. The Department of Transportation announced that it joined the Smart City Challenge, together with Google’s smart-cities research...
The Eero Wi-Fi system tech specs review
Getting good internet at home can be so hard, especially when you consider that the average home connection faces all sorts of obstacles. To solve this dilemma, Home Wi-Fi systems like the Eero Wi-Fi system come into play. Two years ago, the Eero Wi-Fi system...
MIT invents a system for Wi-Fi localization with a single access point
Chronos is an innovative system for Wi-Fi position tracking, developed by MIT, that can help us provide intelligent free Wi-Fi, design smarter houses and produce safer drones. A team of researchers at CSAIL (MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligent...
Ubiquiti APs used for free Wi-Fi at Idomeni refugee camp
In September 2015, Ilias Papadopoulos brought a free Wi-Fi connection to a refugee camp in Idomeni, Greece using Ubiquiti APs. Ilias Papadopoulos, an electrical engineer from Greece, first arrived at the refugee camp in August 2015 to research how he could help...
Wi-Fi tracking positively impacts pedestrian behavior
Wireless networks are gathering data regarding pedestrian behavior through Wi-Fi tracking. Walking in public spaces means passing through numerous wireless networks being accessed by Wi-Fi enabled devices. Even when Wi-Fi enabled devices are not connected to these...
Google Wi-Fi expands Internet access in Cuba
During his historic visit to the island nation, U.S. President Barack Obama introduced Google Wi-Fi and broadband access to the Cubans to foster the connectivity throughout the country. During the meeting between U.S. president Barack Obama and Cuba's President...
The Philippines’ tablet-based learning initiative for schools
The Filipino Government is changing its educational system and launching a "K to 12 Basic Education Program" that implements a tablet-based learning system at schools. The President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino stated in his speech of April 2012, that the...
Free Wi-Fi access increases up to 95% in Australian hotels
Tourism Accommodation Australia (TAA) conducted a survey of over 300 hotels and serviced accommodations in the continent, to find out how many offer free Wi-Fi access at their location. The Tourism Accommodation Australia or TAA, an organization that represents...
Cloud-based applications improve Wi-Fi network management
The deployment and remote management of Wi-Fi networks have now become effortless tasks, thanks to the increase of cloud-based applications in the recent years. In the past, all configurations and updates of a Wi-Fi network had to be done on-site, and keeping...