Matthew Broersma

Project to Enable Mobile Phone Use on Planes

In one of the first major projects of its kind, a European Commission-funded consortium is preparing to trial a system designed to allow mobile phone use inside a passenger aircraft. Unlike Boeings data-based Connexion system, which airlines in Germany, Scandinavia and Asia are in the process of rolling out, the technology developed by WirelessCabin allows […]

U.K. Plans Roadside Wireless Network

LONDON—The U.K. government is planning to upgrade its roadside telematics system with a wireless network designed to blanket the country with low-cost wireless Internet access. At this weeks Wireless LAN Event here, a small Exeter-based company called Last Mile Communications (a trading name of five-year-old TIVIS Ltd.) launched the patented technology the government is eyeing […]