Shoelace Wireless develops cooperative networking technologies that allow a mobile user to aggregate and utilize all available wireless connections, including those on their mobile phone as well as those of other close by phones, to download content fast, reliably and at low cost. The firm's approach is software-based and requires no changes to the current infrastructure. Shoelace Wireless Inc. is currently located in the TechPortal incubator, in the CalIT2 building, on the UC Irvine campus.