GUEST BLOG: Martin Lethbridge from WatchGuard Technologies explores the risks of ubiquitous wireless and provides some tips for creating a secure hotspot Our list of basic needs includes food, shelter, water and energy. But if you ask people what ... [Continue Reading]

The winner of the Best Wi-Fi Service Provider Award category is: iPass   From the right: Gary Griffiths (President & CEO, iPass), Karen Oosthuizen (Head of Sales and Marketing, Purdicomv) and Claus Hetting (CEO, Wi-Fi NOW). ... [Continue Reading]

The winner of the Wi-Fi NOW Affordable Connectivity Award is: Project Isizwe   The winner of the Best Wi-Fi Innovation Award categori is: Qualcomm   From the right: Claus Hetting (CEO, Wi-Fi NOW), James Devine (CIO, Project ... [Continue Reading]

The winner of the Best In-Home Wi-Fi Product category is: Airties and Waoo   The winner of the Best Wi-Fi Startup Award category is: XCellAir   From the right: Peter White (Judge), Claus Hetting (CEO, Wi-Fi NOW), Todd Mersch ... [Continue Reading]

We're delighted that so many great Wi-Fi companies have chose to enter the Wi-Fi NOW Awards - and we're even more delighted to be able to announce the shortlisted nominees for our 5 categories. But before that let me say this: It has been an ... [Continue Reading]

Guest blog By David Theodore, Theodore Wireless Okay, so MAYBE that’s not happening, but if you’re a WISP, then suing isn’t so much in your vernacular as “colocation interference”, “signal to noise” and “side lobes.” But I’m here to tell you that ... [Continue Reading]

Some of us are still pinching our arms and rubbing our eyes to see if we've been reading this right: EU Commissioner Juncker announced in his annual 'State of the Union' speech in September that the EU plans to subsidise free City Wi-Fi across Europe ... [Continue Reading]

It's a nagging problem in millions of households around the world: Great Wi-Fi in the living room and crappy Wi-Fi everywhere else. Now Google is throwing some weight behind a fix to this problem. Just yesterday, Google launched its new Wi-Fi router ... [Continue Reading]

Has the time finally come for large-scale Wi-Fi/mobile convergence? The answer from the big US cable carriers as of this week and last appears to be a resounding YES. Comcast & Charter going wireless Just last week Comcast announced they will ... [Continue Reading]

We've got many great & very experienced speakers lined up for Wi-Fi NOW International - but just in case you'd like our input to what makes for a good  (hopefully GREAT!) presentation, here are some tips & tricks. In my experience, a great ... [Continue Reading]

Some of us are still pinching our arms and rubbing our eyes to see if we've been reading this right. But yes, it's true. EU Commissioner Juncker announced in his annual 'State of the Union' speech last week that the EU plans to subsidise free City ... [Continue Reading]

Everyone's talking about 5G (if you want to know what we think of it read this) - meanwhile, what's going largely unnoticed are the huge strides of advancement being made in good-ol' fixed wireless access, or FWA. So what's new on that front, you ... [Continue Reading]

It's another nail in the proverbial coffin for mobile carriers, and it's unstoppable: Millions of open and free Wi-Fi hotspots across the US represent a huge repository of free data. Now Google is serving this up to Nexus users - and you don't even ... [Continue Reading]

At Wi-Fi NOW we love working with video - it's just a great medium for getting word out about all the exciting things happening in Wi-Fi across the world. But how do you get the most out of your Wi-Fi NOW TV appearance? Here's our quick guide to ... [Continue Reading]

This week OpenSignal released their latest 'Global State of Mobile Networks Report' and the results are clear: Consumers in the top 46 countries spend more than 50% of their time on Wi-Fi with their smartphones. The company says it collected 12.3 ... [Continue Reading]

Guest Blog: '5G' is the Donald Trump of telecom by David Theodore 5G is the hottest topic in wireless circles, so I spent some time researching it. I chased articles everywhere, reading the best available information and insights. And while I ... [Continue Reading]

Wi-Fi continues to be the telco growth story of the decade: IDC reports 8.6% year-on-year enterprise WLAN growth while MarketsandMarkets forecast the Wi-Fi (public) hotspot market to reach a whopping $3.3 billion by 2020 - a CAGR of 17%. Here are ... [Continue Reading]

I get this comment a lot of the time. True, some conferences offer free attendance (but still require an even more scarce resource: your time!) My experience with those is that generally, they’re not worth it. In that sense you always get what you ... [Continue Reading]

Facebook wants gigabit wireless everywhere. And they've hatched a plan to make it happen. Menlo Park, California: For the time being the copious stream of advertising dollars that built Facebook's vast campus continues to flow to Menlo Park. In ... [Continue Reading]

It's a megatrend in the making: Advertising, free Wi-Fi, and big cities. It's all coming together not only in New York City's flagship LinkNYC project but now also in the heart of Europe. Just in time for European Championship Football and - later ... [Continue Reading]

Did Apple just seed the end of cellular telephony? The short answer is that they probably did. Here's what happened last week: Apple unveiled their huge iOS10 release that now includes a third-party API for the green 'phone' app, meaning your ... [Continue Reading]

Want great Wi-Fi in every room your home? If you're like most of us, your answer can only be a resounding yes. But thus far getting in-home Wi-Fi quality right has been an engineering problem well beyond the average consumer's skill set. Finally a ... [Continue Reading]

Will consumers get access to more Wi-Fi? Unlicensed bands have one big challenge when it comes to regulation: Setting spectrum free for Wi-Fi produces exactly zero in government revenue. Compare this to the billions of dollars governments routinely ... [Continue Reading]

Wi-Fi First has been poised to disrupt big carrier mobile services for at least a couple of years - and if there ever was a no-brainer value prop here it is: When you're inside free Wi-Fi coverage some 90% of the time, why spend money on cellular ... [Continue Reading]

Only 90 miles off the coast of Florida, Cuba is possibly the most Internet-starved country in the world. But after 50 years of isolation, the future looks a lot more connected for millions of Cubans. This week President Obama announced "that ... [Continue Reading]

How important is Wi-Fi these days? Well, try taking away someone's Wi-Fi for just a few hours, and you'll find out. But here's the difference between Wi-Fi and nearly everything else wireless: It belongs to all of us. That's because the radio ... [Continue Reading]

Can Nokia take market share away from entrenched carrier Wi-Fi vendors such as Cisco and Ruckus? That's the big question after Nokia released it's first ever full line of carrier Wi-Fi solutions at this years' Mobile World Congress. This is not ... [Continue Reading]

Is the case for Wi-Fi 'offload' (a better name is probably mobile/Wi-Fi convergence) making a comeback? Thus far, mobile carriers have been 'offloading' to Wi-Fi networks mostly at big airports and stadiums, but this week the case for offload may ... [Continue Reading]

Speedify is a great new app that combines the data streams of Wi-Fi and 4G - and it's all seamless. Here's my interview with CEO of Speedify, Alex Gizis. Also: You get to meet Alex at Wi-Fi NOW the conference in Washington, D.C. - go to this link ... [Continue Reading]

If you don't know Fon, this is a good time to get to know them. Fon has over the past 10 years amassed a community Wi-Fi network of more than 18 million hotspots. And they're not stopping there. Find out what's next for Fon in my interview with ... [Continue Reading]