Here we're trying to maintain a list of companies that provide commercial wireless services or products.
Wireless ISP's
- Sweden
Serves more than 100 hotels, train stations & airports in Sweden, will expand to 300 locations in 2001.
- United States (interstate providers)
A broadband ISP, plans to use unlicensed bands at 2.4 GHz, 5.8 GHz and 900 MHz for 128K-4Mbps using OFDM modulation in 40 markets by 2003.
Holiday Inn's corporate parent, Bass Hotels, will provide travelers with information in more than 3,000 hotels using wireless PDAs or phones from Verizon or Sprint like GPRS/Bluetooth models from Ericsson or Nokia.
- Kiosks and wireless access points in Boston and Philadelphia airports with 35 planned in 2001
- Working with Starbucks and Microsoft, will provide 5,000 coffee shops around the country. Also has 150 hotel and airport locations including Dallas-Ft Worth, Austin, JFK (American gate) and member lounges.
- About 50 restaurants and cafes in SF plus LA and Kentucky. Plans to expand to 1,000 locations including Portland, Seattle, and San Diego by late 2001.
- Serves Sea/Tac, Austin and Dallas/Ft-Worth and 150 hotels. Plans
- to expand to 550 hotels by June, 2001.
- Serves Sea/Tac, Austin and Dallas/Ft-Worth and 150 hotels. Plans
- United States (by state)
- California, San Francisco
- Serves about 75 restaurants, bookstores and cafes in San Francisco. National expansion planned.
- Oregon, Portland
Millenicom (+1 503 768 3063)
Kondooit Broadband They operate all communications at The Weatherly Building (see also theweatherly.com), including the old Teligent data center and Verizon data center/cell site on the roof of the building. With multiple DS-3 connectivity and several 2.4, 5.2 and 5.8 Ghz nodes around the city, they also provide server co-location and web hosting. They are also the provider of the freely accessible hot spot that covers Waterfront Park.
Provider of 802.11b and BlueTooth access points in public buildings, airports, hotels and conference centers.
- Washington, Tri-Cities
ISP in Washington state, will use BreezeCOM's 2.4 GHz ISM gear for business users in the Tri-Cities, Yakima, WA and Scottsdale/Phoenix.
- Washington, Vancouver
Winfield Digital & Wireless (+1 360 735 9200)
LTI (+1 360 896 2782)
- California, San Francisco
Old
... these need to refactored into the above list.
Comm Tag: allows spontaneous communication-on-demand without prior agreements or setup. It links Bluetooth to cellular
Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide: Will deploy Bluetooth "hot spots" using Axis 9010 hardware and Classwave Bluetooth software. GSM and Bluetooth will be combined by Kipling and Axis