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Republic Wireless Revamps Its WiFi Handoff
Light Reading
Date: November 12, 2013
Just over two years into providing its WiFi-first/cellular offload mobile service, the Sprint MVNO Republic Wireless is revamping how it handles offloading.
Republic Wireless to launch Moto X, new plans and improved Wi-Fi/cellular technology
Fierce Wireless
Date: November 12, 2013
Sprint MVNO Republic Wireless is christening its first full year of commercial service with the launch--scheduled for sometime this week--of Google's Moto X, new rate plans and improved Wi-Fi-to-cellular handoff technology.
Where Do You Really Need a Carrier's Wireless Network?
Bloomberg Businessweek.com
Date: November 8, 2013
To run a wireless company, you need three things. You need enough transmitters (“cells,” the industry calls them) close enough to your customers to deliver a signal. You need a connection from that cell to the Internet (“backhaul”). And you need an available slice of electromagnetic spectrum to get that signal from the cell to your customer’s hand.
Gowex to Merge Business, Carrier WiFi in NYC
Light Reading
Date: November 4, 2013
Fon isn't the only vendor stepping up its free WiFi game in the US market. Gowex is also hoping to up the ante: Like Fon, it's from Madrid, Spain; taking a social approach to WiFi; and has the end goal of making WiFi a win-win for everyone.
Amenity WiFi: Latin America’s biggest wireless network
Connect World
Date: November 1, 2013
Over 900 million smartphones will ship this year alone, and data traffic is growing faster than mobile operators can handle. WiFi networks can handle the demand. Today, free WiFi is available at cafés, bars, shopping centres, sporting events and, increasingly from municipalities and mobile operators. These free and public networks, can soon handle much of the growing demand with minimal impact to cellular networks. Latin American operators can immediately leverage existing networks of WiFi hotspots to offload data.
The Changing Face of 'Amenity WiFi'
Light Reading
Date: October 21, 2013
The dynamics of deploying and networking in-store WiFi are undergoing another major shift, according to Devicescape CEO Dave Fraser.
'Connected' Oxford Street has better free wi-fi than NYC, Tokyo and Paris
London Evening Standard
Date: October 4, 2013
Oxford Street was today hailed the most “connected” street in the world as research shows it has better free wi-fi than the biggest shopping areas in New York, Tokyo and Paris.
Devicescape: San Francisco’s Public Wi-Fi Beats New York’s
telecompetitor
Date: September 27, 2013
Which U.S. city is best connected when it comes to public Wi-Fi access? Examining so-called “amenity Wi-Fi” in two leading U.S. centers for innovation and technology, San Bruno California-based curated virtual Wi-Fi hotspot network provider Devicescape found that San Francisco beats New York City hands down.
East Coast vs. West: SF beats NYC hands down in open Wi-Fi availability
GigaOm
Date: September 27, 2013
Both New York City and San Francisco are cosmopolitan cities rife with dining, shopping and cultural amenities. But if you were to walk into any given shop or cafe in either city looking for Wi-Fi, you’re twice as much more likely to get connected in downtown San Francisco than you are in Manhattan.
WiFi Wars: San Fran Trumps NYC
Light Reading
Date: September 26, 2013
San Francisco can add one more bragging point in the battle of the coasts: more pervasive and open WiFi, according to a new study from Devicescape.
4G isn't making me shun my Wi-Fi… yet
ComputerWeekly.com
Date: September 20, 2013
Mobile operators may be arch enemies most of the time, but if there is one thing that brings them together onto the same side it is the threat of Wi-Fi.
How debate on 4G device owners Wi-fi usage
GoMo News
Date: September 20, 2013
It would seem logical that once consumers get their hands on a 4G device and realise just how fast applications such as video streaming can be, then their use of Wi-fi hotspots should decline.
New survey hots up LTE vs Wi-Fi usage debate
Mobile World Live
Date: September 20, 2013
A new survey by US firm Devicescape said that Wi-Fi usage doubles for consumers on 4G networks at a similar rate to how their cellular data usage increases.
Carriers connect with Silicon Valley at TC3
RCRWireless
Date: September 19, 2013
What do carriers want from software companies? This is the question the Telecom Council tries to answer each year at its annual TC3 event.
Data-Hungry 4G Users Gorge on Wi-Fi, Report Finds
The Wall Street Journal
Date: September 19, 2013
Devicescape, the crowdsourced WiFi hotspot orchestrator, has signed two significant deals in the US and is reportedly prepping its database in Europe, presumably in expectation of a major carrier signing or two here.
Devicescape scores deals as telcos get relaxed about WiFi
TelecomTV
Date: September 18, 2013
Devicescape, the crowdsourced WiFi hotspot orchestrator, has signed two significant deals in the US and is reportedly prepping its database in Europe, presumably in expectation of a major carrier signing or two here.
Cricket Leaps to Devicescape's WiFi Aggregator
Light Reading
Date: September 18, 2013
Cricket has become the latest US mobile operator to deploy Devicescape software that helps end users hook up to a vast nationwide WiFi network.
Devicescape Lands Wi-Fi Offload Deals with CCA, Leap
Yankee Group
Date: September 17, 2013
Devicescape is putting Wi-Fi offload on the front burner. The company signed two big deals for its curated virtual hotspot network, one with the Competitive Carriers Association (CCA) and one with Leap Wireless’ Cricket.
Cricket Adds 16 Million Wi-Fi Hotspots with Devicescape
Pipeline
Date: September 17, 2013
Devicescape today announced that Cricket Communications, Inc., a nationwide no-contract wireless provider, has deployed Devicescape's Curator Service to provide offload services and capacity-reach.
Cricket Deploys Devicescape for Wi-Fi Offload and Capacity Reach
Converge! Network Digest
Date: September 17, 2013
Cricket Communications, a nationwide no-contract wireless provider, has deployed Devicescape's Curator Service to provide offload services and capacity-reach via its Curated Virtual Network (CVN) of over 16 million high-quality Wi-Fi hotspots and intelligent connection software.