TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - American technology giant, Microsoft, is teaming up with Google, Comcast, Charter and Time Warner Cable, and other partners to expand the WiFi network for public.
The Verge wrote yesterday that the coalition, named the WiFiForward, would seek to lobby the government to free up more spectrums usable for WiFi to free up networks that will undoubtedly get more congested in the coming years.
Comcast, Charter and Time Warner Cable are said to be working on the wiring while Microsoft and Google are very likely to be contributing their useful cloud-based software. It's also worth noting that there are no wireless carriers like Verizon or AT&T involved in WiFiForward. Now that Verizon and AT&T's LTE networks are more mature and generally less congested than how their 3G networks were a few years ago, Wi-Fi access appears to be less of a priority.
The coalition's official mission statement calls it "an ad-hoc, broad-based group of companies, organizations and public sector institutions working to alleviate the WiFi spectrum crunch and to support making WiFi even better by finding more unlicensed spectrum."
The full list of the coalition partners can be found at wififorward.org.
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