Once the security problem is licked, communal Wi-Fi microcells will take over many of the wireless Internet functions that phone companies hope to offer, Carrico says.
Eighty-six percent of SK Telecom's mobile-phone customers have wireless Internet capability on their handsets.
If you're lucky, you'll share the company's phone systems, wireless Internet connections, furniture and even the cafeteria.
Carrying nearly seven million passengers each day on nine lines and 327km of track, the Seoul subway has climate-controlled train cars with mobile phone reception, wireless internet and televisions.
While the company's management has faltered lately, its founders, now at rival Handspring, have just announced another potential breakthrough: the Treo Communicator, which seamlessly combines a phone, organizer and wireless Internet device.
Now, more consumers in Atlanta looking to stay connected to the people and things they love while on-the-go or at home have new options for outstanding video, phone, Internet and wireless services.
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Krishna Kurapati, founder and chief technology officer of Sipera Systems , demonstrated vulnerabilities of several Wi-Fi devices at Wednesday's presentations, crashing a Blackberry and a D-Link phone onstage by hacking their wireless Internet connections.
Wireless services such as mobile phone calls and mobile internet connections are run through the spectrum.
First, there's the wireless Internet access with Telecom Italia, which has 3 million mobile phone customers in Brazil.
This is what the online computing revolution has become, a giant electricity hog of Internet searches, phone calls, blog posts, wireless downloads, bank transactions and office documents.
The debate over device subsidies is part of a tug of war between mobile operators, Internet companies and phone makers seeking control and profits in the wireless industry.
No matter that our house would have wireless Internet access: I decided to try to only use it for fun: the phone number for the kayaking rentals at Gull Pond, the hours for my favorite seafood shack and other good stuff.
Verizon ( VZ - news - people ) also beat expectations thanks to increased cellphone customers, but its quarterly results suffered from a heavy loss in traditional phone subscribers as more consumers go completely wireless or pick cheaper alternatives offered by cable and Internet companies.
Several wireless-phone makers announced new models aimed at the younger set at this week's Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Trade Show in New Orleans.
Fast forward twenty years, and to walk the streets of any city in the U.S. is to see Americans of all income classes listening to music, texting, searching internet sites, and watching television on small rectangular objects that also serve as the once much coveted wireless phone.
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