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Thursday, February 21, 2008
How to slash mobile phone costs Agito Networks is shipping the RoamAnywhere Mobility Router, which lets employees make calls from their handsets over a wireless LAN. It also lets administrators set policies based on the time of a call and the worker’s location
Thursday, June 08, 2006
Wi-Fi to cell roaming still has wrinkles With Wi-Fi coverage continuing to expand and vendors rolling out Wi-Fi-enabled handsets, many in the IT community are now looking for the inevitable next step — seamless Wi-Fi to cell handoffs. While being able to roam freely from Wi-Fi to cell networks clearly has benefits, there are also some potential pitfalls.
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Wi-Fi set to ease cellular burden Canadian service providers are hoping Wi-Fi will enable them to lighten the load on their cellular networks. Wi-Fi as a voice medium is a ready technology, they say, but a commercially viable business plan is still being developed. 
Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Telus goes national with its 3G network Telus Mobility Inc. has unveiled its third generation (3G) cellular network with a reach that pushes coverage to near-national levels. Called Wireless High-Speed Network (WHSN), Telus’s version of cellular broadband is based on Evolution Data Optimized (EV-DO} technology, which offers average transfer rates of 400Kbps to 700Kbps and maximum speeds of more than 2Mbps. Currently, Telus’s network is available in five urban areas across the country: the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), Montreal, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver. 
Sunday, October 16, 2005
Rogers, Ericsson run trials to boost wireless speeds With the goal of significantly boosting wireless speeds, Ericsson Canada Inc. and Rogers Communications Inc. are running trials of 3G high-speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) wireless services and converged IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) applications over their cellular network in Toronto. 
Thursday, May 26, 2005
BT defends dicey Bluephone BT is gearing up for the launch of its Bluephone cell phone -- which will be able to roam calls between the cellular network and a Bluetooth access point in the customer's house - despite doubts over its success. "We're on track to launch in the next few weeks," said Ryan Jarvis, director of mobile products and partnerships at BT. Bluephone is the only known commercial service based on the operators' UMA (Unlicensed Mobile Access) convergence standard, but Jarvis claimed more operators are about to launch services.
Thursday, February 17, 2005
Force uses IT to fight crime With an abundance of aging technology from the 1980s, Montreal’s police force was finding it increasingly difficult to effectively use IT as part of its efforts to fight crime.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Combo Wi-FI cell phone due out by fall Avaya Inc., Motorola Inc. and Proxim Corp. later this year plan to introduce what they have dubbed the "enterprise phone," which can easily switch voice phone calls from a wireless LAN to a wide-area cellular network.
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