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20-50,000 WiFi hotspots coming

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Glenn FleishmanPerson was signed in when posted
12-07-2002
12:15 AM ET (US)
 What's hilarious about all this press attention is that if you read into the details of the plan, what they're really doing is providing service to people who own and operate real estate: hotels, businesses, airports, municipalities. These guys are unwirers for hire, not a network. It's kind of funny, as they make it sound as if they're a network, but the details of the deal are entirely focused on infrastructure. My guess here is that they won't brand their installations at all, but will offer vendor-neutral hosting, so that any organization with the right technical interfacing (like Boingo, etc.) can authenticate via the venue's systems.
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cypherpunksPerson was signed in when posted
12-06-2002
06:13 PM ET (US)
 I guess Max Power was already taken.

Anyway, their press release says they're aiming at the top 50 metropolitan areas, which would roughly be all of the areas with population greater than one million, amounting to about 50% of the population of the U.S. This would just be in certain retail stores, etc.

I wonder what the best places are for WiFi hotspots? I've got a Danger Hiptop internet phone and the main thing I've used it for in retail stores is price browsing to see if something is available for less online. Doesn't seem like retailers would go out of their way to make that service more available. Really, beyond coffee shops, what businesses will benefit from making WiFi available to their customers?
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erniePerson was signed in when posted
12-06-2002
12:23 PM ET (US)
 yeah, word on the street is he changed his name from Joe Monkeynuts.
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