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Monday, August 06, 2007
Will Wi-Fi hot spots ever get any coverage?
My answer is no, and this note seems to confirm the same notion, where technologies better suited for wide area coverage (in this case WiMAX, but also 3G applies) will be used instead. Wi-Fi hot spots have been hyped a lot, but I still mainly see them in airports, hotels and conference centers. Wireless broadband needs to cover cities to be of any real value.
Of course inside homes and enterprises Wi-Fi will continue to be used a lot, but if you have the choice of getting broadband via wireless for your home maybe more will use that instead of getting first ADSL or similar and then Wi-Fi as well. That's provided the network adapters for e.g. wireless broadband become very cheap, both as a one-time cost and over time. Uncapped flatrate is of course required.
Public Wi-Fi: Past its Prime?
Of course inside homes and enterprises Wi-Fi will continue to be used a lot, but if you have the choice of getting broadband via wireless for your home maybe more will use that instead of getting first ADSL or similar and then Wi-Fi as well. That's provided the network adapters for e.g. wireless broadband become very cheap, both as a one-time cost and over time. Uncapped flatrate is of course required.
Public Wi-Fi: Past its Prime?
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Hi Anders...I was curious as to what you made of the recent BT/FON announcement. Does FON's free wi-fi movement change all this? It seems like a clever business model. FON is already the biggest wi-fi network in the world, after all.
It's likely to make it much easier for the end-user, but you still have to be where the hot spots are.
http://maps.fon.com/ indicates a rather spotty coverage. What it doesn't say is what area each hot spot covers. I couldn't find any such info.
http://maps.fon.com/ indicates a rather spotty coverage. What it doesn't say is what area each hot spot covers. I couldn't find any such info.
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