Wi-Fi news from FierceWireless

Continental Airlines plans to add inflight WiFi services to some of their planes beginning in January of next year. The airlines inked a deal with LiveTV a unit of rival airlines Jet Blue. The WiFi Read more...

Another carrier is trying to make waves this week amid all the iPhone hub-bub: T-Mobile USA took the wraps off of its T-Mobile HotSpot AtHome service, which it has been testing in Seattle for the

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WiFi aggregator Boingo Wireless, which claims to have more than 100,000 hotspots, is introducing today what it calls the first worldwide flat-rate plan for WiFi hotspots. For $39 per month, Read more...

Madrid-based WiFi startup Fon received a big boost from Time Warner. The cable company is teaming with Fon to let home broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hotspots. Read more...

One of biggest ISPs in the U.S., EarthLink has begun a beta test of WiFi handsets for local home VoIP use or for use near any public hotspot. The pricing is remarkably low: A package including a Read more...

Verizon Wireless won a patent suit against Vonage that found the VoIP provider had infringed on three of the wireless carrier's patents, including one for VoIP over WiFi that might mean trouble Read more...

FON, the Spanish company that enables consumers to share their WiFi services with each other, is all set to announce yet another round of VC funding--about $13 million, according to a report on Read more...

According to a recent report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project, 54 percent of Internet users check their email on the typical day, but a full 72 percent of wireless Internet users Read more...

The inventor of wireless speakers is suing Sling Media for its Slingbox technology, which ports content from a set-top box, through the Internet, to a mobile phone or PC. According to his Read more...

Two more major cities have announced plans for municipal WiFi systems, indicating the growing sphere of influence WiFi firms have with city officials. Los Angeles Major Antonio Villaraigosa Read more...