• CommercialProviders

Here we're trying to maintain a list of companies that provide commercial wireless services or products.

Wireless ISP's

• Sweden

  • Telia

    • Serves more than 100 hotels, train stations & airports in Sweden, will expand to 300 locations in 2001.

• United States (interstate providers)

  • Air2Lan:

    • 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.

  • Air2Web:

    • 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.

  • Global Digital:

    • Kiosks and wireless access points in Boston and Philadelphia airports with 35 planned in 2001

  • MobilStar

    • 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.

    • Surf and Sip

      • 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.

  • WayPort

    • Serves Sea/Tac, Austin and Dallas/Ft-Worth and 150 hotels. Plans
      • to expand to 550 hotels by June, 2001.
• United States (by state)
  • California, San Francisco

    • AirWave

      • 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.

    • Cerulic

      • Provider of 802.11b and BlueTooth access points in public buildings, airports, hotels and conference centers.

  • Washington, Tri-Cities

    • ClearSky Broadband:

      • 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)

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

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