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STOCKHOLM and RIO DE JANEIRO, October 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- -- South America's Largest Favela and Brazil's Airports First to Get Wi-Fi -- In preparation for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games, TIM Brasil, the second largest mobile operator in Brazil, has begun a major Wi-Fi initiative to deploy wireless broadband throughout Brazil. Through systems integrator Retis, Aptilo Networks, the leading provider of mobile data offloading solutions, is providing TIM...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Broadband anywhere today is still elusive. While hotspots aren’t that hard to find in urban areas, finding a free hotspot can be tricky. The rest of the time all that streaming data, even with 4G networks, users might be watching how much they use so as not to exceed limits of the plans the carriers are increasingly offering consumers. It wasn’t supposed to be like this, with data hungry consumers worrying about overages. Wi-Fi...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless(TM) has been named the Official Wireless Supplier at this year's Grand-Am Championship Weekend presented by BMW, taking place at Lime Rock Park, the historic road racing motorsports venue in the rural northwest corner of Connecticut. Lime Rock Park is deploying Ruckus ZoneFlex Smart Wi-Fi products and technology to significantly improve the mobile spectator experience at the 55-year-old facility. Listed on the...

GERMANTOWN, Md., Sept. 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), the global leader in broadband satellite solutions and services, today announced that it has been awarded a contract by a major telecommunications operator in Latin America to supply an HX System backhaul solution, enabling expansion of its GSM and WiMAX wireless voice and data services in rural areas. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110112/NE29456LOGO ) This contract builds on the...

STOCKHOLM, September 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Expanding the company's Wi-Fi offloading [http://www.aptilo.com/solutions_mobile-data-offloading.htm ] business into the Taiwanese market, Aptilo Networks [http://www.aptilo.com ], the leading provider of mobile data offloading solutions, today announced that two of Taiwan's top three Tier-1 mobile operators have deployed Aptilo's carrier-class Wi-Fi [http://www.aptilo.com/solutions_hotspot.htm ] service management to offload...

AMSTERDAM, Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- IBC2012 (Stand No. 14.365) - LiveU (www.liveu.tv), the leader in portable HD video-over-cellular solutions, has expanded its live video portfolio to offer customers a complete, end-to-end transmission solution, adding laptop and mobile apps to its flagship LU70 backpack and handheld LU40 uplink solutions. At the same time, LiveU unveiled LiveU Total(TM), its unified management platform enabling control rooms to manage multiple video feeds...

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Sept. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ruckus Wireless(TM) announced today that Time Warner Cable has deployed its ZoneFlex(TM) family of high capacity Smart Wireless LAN (WLAN) systems to deliver high-speed Wi-Fi throughout the 19,000-seat Time Warner Cable Arena in Charlotte, North Carolina. The deployment by Time Warner Cable of Ruckus Smart Wi-Fi is in place and ready to support all arena patrons, including those attending the 2012 Democratic National Convention,...

HONG KONG, Aug. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Altai Technologies Limited today announces that a tier-one mobile operator in China has selected Altai Super WiFi to improve wireless connectivity in the major cities of China following successful deployments in rural China. In addition to the wireless network rollouts in rural China, the mobile operator realized that the growth in wireless data usage was significantly outpacing voice usage growth. In view of this, the...

SARASOTA, Fla., Aug. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- It might seem difficult to believe, but, even in 2012, there are many parts of the United States that still lack the technological foundations needed for broadband Internet access. Wireless and wireline providers, as well as government agencies, have debated the different remedies to this problem for years, but, as a recent news report makes clear, they do not always see eye to eye. According to BusinessWeek, the federal government has...

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell (Nasdaq: MRVL) today announced its selection by the Wi-Fi Alliance for the Wi-Fi CERTIFIED TDLS test bed program. Through its membership in the Alliance, Marvell, along with other wireless industry leaders, will collaborate on the integration of TDLS, also known as tunneled direct link setup, into next-generation wireless devices. TDLS significantly reduces network congestion by enabling devices to intelligently communicate...