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Category Archives: iPhone

Weekend Reading: Towerstream Brings Wi-Fi To Manhattan

As you get ready to enjoy the long weekend, make sure to pick up a copy of the latest issue of BusinessWeek which features a story by Peter Burrows about the Wi-Fi network Towerstream is preparing to launch in Manhattan. Based on tests conducted earlier this week, the story highlights the elevated data speeds our network [...]

4G and Wi-Fi: Changing the Wireless Game

Towerstream’s Chief Operating Officer Mel Yarbrough recently contributed an article to Connect-World: North America 2011 about how 4G networks and Wi-Fi must work together in order for wireless operators to meet increasing mobile broadband capacity. Connect-World is a forum where wireless and telecom industry leaders contribute their views on the most pressing issues in the [...]

Reflections on the iPhone 4

Everyone in the mobile space is no doubt posting their thoughts on this week’s iPhone 4 announcement. Of course, with the tremendous innovation that the new iPhone model is comes great demand on the network. As a wireless provider, Towerstream thought that two interesting things came up during the keynote. One was Apple’s Wi-Fi fluke while [...]

The Smartphone Revolution Has Arrived…..

In 2010, all signs point to record numbers of consumers using mobile devices, from smartphones to e-readers. With Apple’s release of the iPad, it is clear that the applicability of the mobile device is going to continue to cross boundaries between personal and professional use, from email to video viewing and beyond. CNET reported last [...]

Data Overload

According to a recent FierceBroadbandWireless article by Lynette Luna, AT&T and other wireless service providers aren’t ready for “the onslaught of data traffic coming from smartphones, and that the deluge is beginning to clog their networks.”    This isn’t a huge surprise to me.  Legacy networks were never built with the intention of hauling massive [...]