Labs2 har tecknat intentionsavtal gällande förvärv av Wirelessbolaget Nordic AB. Köpeskillingen uppgår till maximalt 20 MSEK och är delvis prestationsbaserad. Betalningen är planerad att genomföras med egna nyemitterade Labs2-aktier. Affären beräknas vara slutförd innan september månads slut. Mera information angående affären kommer i samband med Labs2:s kvartalsrapport som släpps fredagen den 15 augusti.

"Kombinationen av Wirelessbolaget AB och Labs2 kommer att kunna skapa stor kundnytta. Det händer mycket intressant inom det trådlösa området och här är Wirelessbolaget väl positionerat vilket gör affären attraktiv för oss" säger Jonas Birgersson, VD Labs2.

"För Wirelessbolaget innebär affären att mera fokus kan läggas på kärnkompetens, att snabbt och effektivt nå så många användare som möjligt. Genom en kombination av rationella trådlösa uppkopplingar och tjänsteinfrastrukturen Ti BRIKKS kan vi ge kunderna något mycket kraftfullt på kort tid.", säger Tommy Nord, grundare och VD på Wirelessbolaget AB.

• Wirelessbolaget
• Labs 2
• Labs 2 pressrelease

The Wrong Business Model For Wireless Data: Charging Per Byte.
It appears that yet another wireless data service provider has gone down the wrong path and decided that the best way to charge for their service is set a price per byte of usage. At first, this sounds reasonable, since the bigger users end up paying more. However, the only one who this is advantageous to is the company providing the service. It's not consumer friendly at all - and actually discourages adoption and usage of their offering. Furthermore, almost no one online thinks about their surfing activities in terms of data usage. If someone happens to send you a large data file in an email, that could break the bank for your internet service bill. I almost had to laugh when I read that the firm pitching this payment scheme is saying it: "may be used for streaming media, video conferencing, security cameras, online gaming, Internet telephony, server hosting, and remote control." These are all bandwidth intensive operations. Who, in their right mind, would sign up to pay per byte for such applications?

• The Wrong Business Model For Wireless Data: Charging Per Byte

• Labs2 i samarbete Wirelessbolaget Nordic kommer att införa Ti BRIKKS 2.7 i Lerum. (pressrelease)
• Wirelessbolaget

05. may. 2003. Wifi coverage in Estonia reached new milestone. Recently opened public access point in Paide closed the gap and added last last county to the WiFi family. Estonia seems to be the first country in Europe where WiFi areas could be found in all counties. Have a look:! On entire world,we suppose, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and USA are similar countrys more? Hope to see Your comments!
Veljo Haamer WiFi.ee editor

• Wifi coverage in Estonia reached new milestone..

Verizon Communications, the largest U.S. local phone company, on Tuesday launched a service that will provide customers with wireless Internet access on high-speed networks throughout New York City. Verizon, based in New York, said it activated 150 Wi-Fi access points, or hot spots, at pay phones in the city and plans to activate 850 more by the end of the year. It said its deployment would mark the largest such initiative by an Internet service provider in a single U.S. city. [Wired News]

Verizon Communications yesterday introduced one of the oldest items in its inventory — the humble phone booth — as its newest weapon in the bitter competition to dominate the broadband communications market of the future.

Verizon said that subscribers to its high-speed Internet access service would be able to go online wirelessly at no charge when they are near a Verizon phone booth in Manhattan.

• Wired news: Verizon Launches Wi-Fi Hot Spots
• New York Times: Verizon Sets Up Phone Booths to Give Access to the Internet
• Kommentar av Techdirt Wireless
• 802.11 Planet: Verizon's Bold Wi-Fi Push By Colin C. Haley

This is going to change the dynamics of the WiFi market in the U.K. No longer will I be able to write how WiFi network operators are concentrating solely on the business market.

Inspired Broadcast Networks (IBN) is going right after consumers as well as business users, although the overwhelming majority will be business users. After all, who else brings a laptop into a pub?

I believe we can call today the day the dike broke. Why the UK suddenly went from a few hundred installed and a few thousand committed to tens of thousands in the works and several thousand up in the next months is anyone's guess. There goes that tipping point.

• Alan Reiter: Inspired Broadcast launches Web site: Changing U.K.'s WiFi dynamics
• Inspired Broadcast Networks

• Brainheart: The Global WISP Landscape