Media Coverage
Subway WiFi provider to expand services
|Author: Annie McDonough | Publication: City & State New York Transit Wireless announced that it is launching a digital media business and will be offering new products and services to public places and transit systems, including the New York City subway... Read...
MTA Selects 8 Winners, 2 Honorable Mentions of MTA Genius Transit Challenge
|Publication: Metro Transit Authority On Friday, March 9, 2018, the eight ideas that will improve subway signals, capacity and communications for the future of the New York City subway system were announced... Judges recognized two honorable mentions in the...
The Connected Reality of a Smart City
|Publication: Mass Transit Magazine Every day “Space Age” conveniences from mobile video calling to robotic cleaning devices prove that smart technologies are now common utilities, with growing demand and applications. The next leap is to leverage the data smart...
Melinda White Headlines SmartRail World
Headliner: Melinda White Chief Executive Officer, Transit Wireless. | Interviewer: Luke Upton | Publication: SmartRail World| ...With many global metros striving to match New York, Luke Upton sat down with Melinda White, who took over as CEO in May of this year,...
MTA Social Media mentions in May increase almost 122% from May 2017
Headliner: Melinda White Chief Executive Officer, Transit Wireless. | Interviewer: Luke Upton | Publication: SmartRailWorld| There were 36,760 social media mentions of the MTA this past May, a 121.9 percent increase from the 16,565 mentions recorded during May of last...
ALCATEL LUCENT ENTERPRISE ON TWiT TALKS WI-FI IN THE NEW YORK SUBWAY
| Interviewer: Lou Maresca | Publication: Enterprise Tech | Rob Hemmerich of Alcatel-Lucent discusses the challenges of building out a network that can handle the environment and capacity demands of Transit Wireless' Wi-Com network throughout New York City's 282...
CONNECTING UNDERGROUND IN A CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS
|Publication: Broadband Communities May/June 2018 Issue If you’ve ever texted, chatted on the phone or connected to Wi-Fi while you waited for a train in the New York City subway, you’ve used Transit Wireless’s network. Thanks to Transit Wireless, the days of...
DENSIFICATION AND THE GROWING PAINS OF A WI-COM NETWORK
|Interviewer: Josh Anderson | Publication: CapRate Events, LLC. (CAPRE) Tom McCarthy, Director of Network Operations, discusses with Josh Anderson of CapRate Events, LLC. the growth and challenges of Transit Wireless' ever-expanding and improving network. Read...
THE FUTURE USES OF Wi-Fi, CBRS AND PRIVATE LTE IN WI-COM
|Interviewer: Keith Parsons | Publication: Wireless LAN Professionals Listen in as Transit Wireless' Senior Wireless Engineer Jeremy Ward discusses how Wi-Fi, CBRS and Private LTE can change the face of Wi-Com with Wireless LAN Professionals podcast Listen to the...
HOW ONLY GENUINE INNOVATION SOLVES RAIL AND METRO’S BIGGEST CHALLENGES
|Author: Luke Upton | Publication: Smartrailworld.com| Up stepped Transit Wireless, a majority owned BAI Communications company, who solved the problem of delivering countdown clocks to the rest of the subway system. Nathan Cornish, Product Development Director at BAI...
STRENGTHENING RAIL THROUGH PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
|Author: Maile Bucher | Publication: Mass Transit Magazine| Public-private partnerships (P3’s) are an asset to public transportation agencies. One of the most beneficial aspects is the ability for agencies to shift certain financial and construction risks to private...
Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels
|Author: Danny Crichton| Publication: TechCrunch| While the costs and time required to build out the network were significant, Transit Wireless believes that the infrastructure it has built will stand the test of time. It designed the system to be “future-proof” by...
Transit Wireless: Straphangers made more than 280 million subway calls in 2017
|Author: Paula Katinas | Publication: Brooklyn Daily Eagle| Subway riders hate having to wait a long time for their trains on their way to work in the morning, but there’s at least one part of the transit system that they love. Straphangers are quite happy with the...
5 reasons NYC parents should celebrate Transit Wireless Wi-Fi’s first birthday
|Author: Danielle Valente | Publication: Time Out| Well, 2017 wasn’t a total bust. It was the year NYC welcomed its underground wireless service, and commuters everywhere revelled in the World Wide Web’s glory while in transit. It’s officially been one year since this...
Here’s what New Yorkers did with their first year of underground Wi-Fi
|Author: Nikki M. Mascali | Publication: Metro US| It’s been a year since underground wireless launched in New York City, and residents and tourists alike haven’t looked back or, apparently, up from their devices since. In 2017, there were more than 280 million...