WiFi4EU program to deploy at least 6,000 free hotspots across the union

Up to 8,000 under-connected municipalities will be able to get a portion of the €120 million set aside for this program to get hotspots by 2020.

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AT&T preps a durable Wi-Fi hotspot meant for the outdoors

So, you’re on the jobsite or off the road. If you need to be connected and capable beyond what, say, a Galaxy S6 Active (or Galaxy S7 Active) can afford, well, hopefully you have that beefy, cased-up laptop with you. Well, that’s the capable part down, but what ...

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Businesses seek right to block smartphone WiFi hotspots

How do you get online when you travel? Well, with your smartphone, obviously, but when there’s heavier lifting to be done, a lot of us rely on the personal hotspots our phones can generate, turning their cellular data connections into WiFi signals the rest of our personal electronics can connect to. As if smartphone users didn’t face enough obstacles against easy hotspot creation from carriers (not to mention the companies behind mobile platforms being all too willing to help carriers enforce their ...

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