Sweden has concluded their auction of 2.6 GHz spectrum by the National Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). Auctioning 190 MHz in the in the 2.6 GHz band raised a total of SEK 2.1 billion (USD 346 million).
Five companies won licenses. Intel Capital acquired one block of 50 MHz TDD spectrum for USD 26.2 million. […]

Cablevision, the 5th largest cable provider in the USA, announced today that it will build its own municipal wireless network, using Wi-Fi. The announcement came one day after Comcast and Time Warner Cable announced their joint venture with WiMax operators Sprint and Clearwire.
Cablevision, with most of its customers in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, […]

AT&T’s iPhone website has been updated to reveal that each iPhone plan now includes access to “more than 17,000 Wi-Fi hotspots“, including Starbucks.

Last week AT&T had quietly begun offering iPhone users access to their Wi-Fi hotspots for free. Then the service was abruptly turned off.
AT&T has remained quiet about this new offering, but it’s clear […]

MySpace has embraced data portability, and partnered With Yahoo, Ebay and Twitter, says TechCrunch. MySpace is announcing data portability standards today, along with data sharing partnerships in a project called MySpace “Data Availability”.
The key goal is to allow users to maintain key personal data at sites like MySpace and not have it be locked […]

NAVTEQ announced today that Verizon Wireless has selected their Traffic Mobile application to power its new traffic service available today on its newest VZ Navigator (Version 4) service.
Verizon Wireless is the first wireless provider to feature NAVTEQ Traffic Mobile, enabling customers to access live traffic data on their mobile devices in more than 75 cities […]

VoIP Now has created a listing of Top 100 Telecom Industry Blogs.
It includes categories of VoIP, Corporate Blogs, Mobile Blogs, Wireless Blogs, Outside the U.S., Niche, Toys and Gadgets. Check it out and let Jimmy Atkinson, editor of VoIP Now, know if he missed any obvious ones.

Looking for a hotel where the WiFi is definitely not free, possibly not working and perhaps is not even WiFi?
Yes, it’s time for the Worst WiFi Hotels of 2008.

It’s WiFi Week at Hotel Chatter. They started off with the Best WiFi Hotels of 2008, perhaps not as entertaining but probably more useful. Here are […]

Earthlink says it may shut down Philadelphia’s citywide Wi-Fi tomorrow if the city isn’t able to reach a takeover agreement.

Earthlink, which stopped accepting new customers last week, has given the city until tomorrow to come up with a plan to take over the system or it could begin to take down the network, according to […]

The Internet Engineering Task Force has kicked off a new effort that could deliver a key building block for wireless sensor networks, says EE Times. The Routing Over Low-power and Lossy Networks (ROLL) group aims to define a standard for Internet Protocol as early as next summer.

Sensor networks may be the next big thing. Companies […]

It’s official. Sprint and Clearwire announced this morning they will a nation-wide WiMAX network, with Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Intel, Google and cable operator Bright House Networks expected to kick in $3.2 billion to help finance the venture.

The deal (pdf), announced on Wednesday, will provide funding for Sprint and Clearwire to build the network and […]

And you may find yourself living in a shotgun shack
And you may find yourself in another part of the world
And you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile
- Once in a Lifetime

Sprint, Comcast, Google, Time Warner and Intel will launch a Mobile WiMAX Joint Venture, says the Wall Street Journal. More […]

BelAir Networks today announced that Citymesh nv, a wireless solutions provider headquartered in Belgium, has standardized on BelAir’s mesh network solutions.
Citymesh specializes in building large-scale wireless broadband networks. They have already deployed many wireless networks including city coverage, leisure parks, and off-shore deployments.

At the OTC 2008 conference in Houston, Citymesh has a presentation on […]

A digital satellite television service from broadcasters ITV and the BBC, called Freesat, launched across Britain on Tuesday. It offers high definition programming and more than 80 channels for no monthly fee.
Freesat will be available in 98 percent of households. It requires a satellite receiver and settop box. Set-top box prices will start from 49 […]

Qwest Communications and Verizon Wireless just announced that they’ve signed a 5-year agreement for Qwest to market and sell Verizon Wireless service beginning this summer.
Qwest customers will have access to the full line of Verizon Wireless handsets and devices, as well as high-speed broadband wireless services for e-mail, Internet access and multimedia services.
Qwest […]

Advertising on mobile devices will exceed $1 billion this year and could increase to about $7.6 billion by 2013, according to a report from Juniper Research.

Streamed and broadcast TV services will become the most lucrative delivery channel for mobile advertising by 2010, said the research company.

Short message service campaigns account for the largest proportion […]