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Originally Posted by GregWard
If it barks like a Dog and wags it's tail like a Dog ... then it's a Dog - right?
Do we really need another cellphone system? I think WiFi in phone booths just seems to be a case of "cos I can" and no real thought behind it. At least Starbucks you can grab a coffee at the same time!!!!
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if you look at it from a providers standpoint, then the answer is a very big yes!
up til recently i really didn't give wifi a chance of surviving long. as a consumer why do i want to jump back and forth between the two. why do i want to put up with all the hastle of having the proper account(s) for all this to work. the only reason i could think of that made it worthwhile was speed.
after listening to a technical director of a hotspot company speak, things became much clearer for me. if a provider...say t-mobile can offer it's normal cellular network to the vast amount of real estate, and put together wifi networks in the high density metro areas, and provide devices that can handoff between these networks seemlessly, they can then provide a much better overall product to us the consumer, and at a much more cost effective manner.
spotnic is a wifi hotspot startup in the toronto area. they have inked a deal with telus to provide wifi to it's customers in the future. they say that many of the hotspot providers are in the early stages of working out way to put together associated networks where you can roam from one providers network to another similar to the way cellular networks operate now. down the road they see a group of providers under the umbrella of a single cellular provider such as i mentioned with t-mobile and t-mo simply provides you with the best type of access for your location....wifi if it is there, cellular if it isn't.
dave
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