Mobile Citizen and Business Services

Wireless applications and services increasingly provide mobility for businesses and citizens. For citizens, wireless access is becoming a way of life with Internet access any time and anywhere rapidly becoming the expectancy. From an economic development perspective, a wireless infrastructure allowing Internet access and other broadband intensive applications such as video is increasingly seen as a business necessity.

Below you can find mobile services news and mobile city news for businesses on the go. Download mobile services white papers for government technology implementations.

News Features

Internet Users Now Spend Almost Twice as Much Time Online as Watching TV
A new IDC study of consumer online behavior found that the Internet is the medium on which online users spend the most time.
700 MHz Auction Bids Continue Climbing and Far Exceeding Expectations
Even the FCC underestimated the demand for 700 MHz.
SpeedInfo Sensors to Help Seattle-area Commuters By Providing Up-to-the-Minute Traffic Information
New deployment part of WSDOT's plan to relieve congestion in suburban areas.
Honolulu Chinatown Rolls Out Free Wi-Fi
"All that they are required to do is place a small antenna or repeater in the window of their business. The antennas then do the work of searching out others that were put in the grid with access to a gateway to the Internet."
Satellite Communications Network for U.S. Postal Service
Satellite technology brings high performance communications to over 5,000 Post Offices nationwide.
The Wireless Association Urges Senators Not to Act on Out-of-Date Stats
The most recently published FCC data clearly shows that contract-related complaints, as well as overall wireless complaints, are falling.
Law Firm IT Spending Grows 16 Percent As Use of Collaborative Tools, Mobile Wireless Expands
Average total IT spending per lawyer for reporting firms grew to more than $41,000.
FCC Clarifies Roaming Obligations of Wireless Carriers
Carrier obligation to provide roaming extends to real-time, two-way switched voice or data services that are interconnected with the public switched network.
CEA Research Finds 72% of U.S. Adults Have Broadband Access
Demand for content-rich entertainment applications key driver for future broadband adoption, says association.
Three Quarters of U.S. Online Adults Listen to Audio on Home Computers
Music remains the most universal type of content that consumers listen to on computers today.