Tim Higgins
MetaGeek appears to have reintroduced its original 2.4GHz hardware, renaming it Wi-Spy 2.4i and pricing it $99—just like the original.
In a related move, the price of the step-up Wi-Spy 2.4x, which includes an external upgradeable antenna, has been reduced to $199 from $399.
MetaGeek’s dual-band Wi-Spy DBx is still holding firm at $599.
The triple play is the convergence of data, voice, and television (IPTV) across a single pipe: Wi-Fi's in-home dominance of data and increasingly voice and IPTV (with proprietary extensions) will be challenged, ABI Research says, by the latest versions of three standards that work over coax, electrical wiring, and phone wiring. ABI Research says that by 2011, over 45 million gateways will offer wired-based distribution of data, voice, and video. (The quadruple play, by the way, adds mobile voice.)
Updated 12/8/09
ZyXEL has announced what it claims is the world’s first fixed LTE (Long Term Evolution) CPE/SOHO router.
T-Mobile USA today nationally launched a wireless service that extends its combination cellular / Wi-Fi hotspot service to home wireless LANs.
