By Claus Hetting, WiFi NOW CEO & Chairman
Aprecomm lands three more service provider partners in LatAm to reach 50+ total
Aprecomm continues to expand across the globe at breakneck speed, this week announcing three new partners in Latin America. Managed service providers BCD, IABOT, and Ingenio Networks was added to the company’s global customer base, which now exceeds 50 broadband service provider partners, Aprecomm said in a press release published here.
Argentina’s BCD will implement the full Aprecomm portfolio and resell services to providers across Latin America while Columbia’s IABOT will deploy Aprecomm’s Cloud-based customer service solutions in the third quarter of this year, Aprecomm says. Aprecomm adopts a self-healing approach to managed Wi-Fi, adjusting the network to accommodate the unique needs of each user and the performance of every application. Aprecomm is a WiFi NOW Partner and will be speaking at Wi-Fi World Congress Dubai on November 17-19.
XNET signs agreement with AT&T to offload mobile traffic
Startup XNET has signed an Wi-Fi roaming agreement with AT&T allowing AT&T mobile subscribers to connect seamlessly to public Wi-Fi at XNET-powered venues. XNET says it serves 1800 locations with Wi-Fi including cafes, bars, restaurants, gyms, event spaces, and other high-density public locations across the U.S. XNET uses Passpoint to auto-connect to AT&T mobile subscribers to Wi-Fi when they enter an XNET-served venue, which is similar to the Wi-Fi-based indoor coverage solution offered by competitors American Bandwidth and Helium. Similar to Helium, XNET is a blockchain-based decentralised network concept where participants receive token rewards for amount of data offloaded. Read more here.
The Sharing Group of Netherlands acquires stake in Publicroam
In a statement this week The Sharing Group says it has acquired a stake in public Wi-Fi service provider Publicroam, an organisation that currently serves 1300 public venues across the Netherlands with seamless and secure auto-connect Wi-Fi. The Sharing Group (TSG) operates a number of shared economy ventures across the Netherlands including MyWheels, EnergyZero, and others. “This move underscores The Sharing Group’s commitment to building European digital infrastructure that serves people, with privacy and security as its core principles,” TSG says in a press note here. PublicRoam will continue to operate independently, the company says.
Altice Labs announces Wi-Fi 7-certified routers and extenders
Altice Labs of Portugal this week announced that they’ve developed a series of new Wi-Fi Alliance Wi-Fi 7-certified tri-band router and extender products. Altice Labs says “the new routers and extenders deliver superior connectivity experience, ideally suited for demanding applications such as augmented and virtual reality, online gaming, 8K video streaming, cloud computing and SME connectivity needs.”
The routers and extenders are managed by Altice Labs Connected Home Ecosystem, which include smart mesh Wi-Fi as well as IoT with matter and thread support and several other value added services, the company says. For more read here.
NETGEAR appoints new head of home networking
Jonathan Oakes has been appointed Senior VP and General Manager of home networking at NETGEAR, which means he will as of this week will lead NETGEAR’s home networking hardware, software, and subscription services “with a strong focus on innovation, security and delivering an exceptional user experience,” NETGEAR says in a press release here. Jonathan Oakes has previously held product leadership roles at Amazon and Google. The appointment is part of NETGEAR’s ongoing transformation, which has seen the recent replacement of several executives.
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