Offloading some wireless traffic to Wi-Fi networks is finally a concept that wireless carriers are not only considering, but in the case of Sprint, actively deploying. So is the fix for mobile ...

The ability of mobile operators to offload broadband traffic onto Wi-Fi networks has been greatly enhanced with the Wi-Fi Alliance now testing and certifying mobile devices and access points for ...

We’ve all been there, standing by a window or waving our phones in the air, hoping a bar or two of mobile phone signal will appear. For many, Wi-Fi calling seems like the perfect solution, if your ...

With the growing demand for mobile data, cellular service operators are increasingly turning to small cells — picocells, microcells, metrocells and femtocells — to deal with the capacity crunch in ...

Although vendor-written, this contributed piece does not advocate a position that is particular to the author’s employer and has been edited and approved by Network World editors. Growing cellular ...

Google and Intel, along with a major Wi-Fi equipment vendors have joined the ranks of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), an organisation created to foster roaming between public Wi-Fi networks, ...

LongFi Solutions joins the Wireless Broadband Alliance to expand carrier-grade Wi-Fi and OpenRoaming infrastructure across the Americas. Examples of LongFi Solutions’ outdoor Wi-Fi deployments in ...

If you're a MetroPCS cell phone customer, chances are much of your smartphone activity runs not through billion-dollar networks of cell towers but through the $80 Wi-Fi router down at the local ...