Tag Archives: Transit Wireless

Transit Wireless Executes Agreement for Wireless Connectivity in the New York City Subway to Deliver an Expanded Fiber Network Systemwide

| 28 February 2023

The Transit Wireless ubiquitous fiber network will be expanded, includes several river crossings, and leverages the power of 5G small cells and IoT to deliver advanced fiber solutions and route diversity for millions of homes and businesses. Mobile connectivity throughout the NYCT subway tunnels is a game changer for New Yorkers Upgraded high-capacity carrier-grade fiber […]

Transit Wireless Receives Information Services Franchise from New York City Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI)

| 24 October 2022

Transit Wireless, a BAI Communications company and leading 5G wireless infrastructure provider, announced receipt of an Information Services Franchise (ISF) license from the New York City Office of Technology and Innovation (OTI/DoITT). This license allows Transit Wireless to build broadband infrastructure in NYC’s public right-of-way, expanding fiber communications capabilities to fiber network operators, local businesses, universities, hospitals, […]

Infrastructure in crisis: How P3 can save critical projects in a post-Covid world

| 31 March 2021

Municipal infrastructure development is in crisis. At a time when society is counting on infrastructure essential to the functioning of communities and commerce to get us through the pandemic and its recovery, COVID-19 has left many much-needed projects at risk in its wake. For 2020-2022, the National League of Cities has estimated a USD360 billion […]

From data to insights: Unlocking the value of analytics

| 03 February 2021

Judy Wade, Managing Director and Head of CPP Investments’ San Francisco office, led a panel entitled ‘From Data to Insights: Unlocking the Value of Analytics’ with six executives developing or adopting complex data and analytics solutions. The panelists discussed capturing valuable analytics from data, future-proofing industry wide data decisions, centralizing compatibility and privacy, and the […]

Transit Wireless transports NYC subway to the digital age

| 01 March 2020

Transit Wireless invested over US$300 million and partnered with industry vendors to design, build and operate a cellular and Wi-Fi network within the New York City subway and a fibre network throughout the city.

World Cities Day: smart infrastructure, incubators, and urbanization

| 29 October 2019

31 October is World Cities Day , an occasion to promote global interest in urbanization and its sustainable development. BAI Communications designs builds and operates smart infrastructure in cities around the globe, so we asked some of our leading minds to discuss urbanization’s future, opportunities, and challenges. For the second article in our three-part series […]

Five Challenges of Underground Environments – Part Five: New ways of working – aligning business models

| 17 October 2019

In the final post of his challenges of working in underground environments blog series, UK CEO Billy D’Arcy moves away from the physical environment to the business environments that telecommunication firms and rail operators work within.

The challenges of bringing Wi-Fi to a large transit system

| 16 October 2019

This week, BAI Communications is attending SmartTransit USA conference in Baltimore. We sat down with Josh MacKinnon, Director, Wi-Fi Technologies, for BAI Communications, based in Toronto, Canada to discuss the challenges of bringing Wi-Fi to a large transit system.

Five Challenges of Underground Environments – Part Four | Ensuring Installation Engineers have the right skillset

| 10 October 2019

Mind the skills gap! Part 4 of BAI Communications UK CEO Billy D’Arcy’s blog series on the challenges of deploying wireless for underground rail discusses how to ensure teams have the right skillset when installing high-speed communications in metro rail environments.

Transit Wireless adds industry leaders to senior team

| 02 October 2019

Transit Wireless hires Eli Kay as Chief Financial Officer and Michael Hoyt as Senior Vice President of Product Development, Engineering and Operations Transit Wireless, a leading neutral host wireless infrastructure company, announced that Eli Kay will join the company as chief financial officer and Michael Hoyt as senior vice president of Product Development, Engineering and […]