Surely the most important thing is that someone can make money out of
it. In my opinion this is the gist of the report.
802.11 is WLAN. Hot spots are sort of a wannabe wireless WAN made out
of bits designed for other purposes. Yes, 802.11 is cheap... in itself.
Add user management, billing, core network backhaul costs, roaming,
security and more... basically all the stuff that wasn't included by
design and it's no longer cheap, and still is far from ubiquitous.
Thus a real wireless WAN has a real chance.
Dirk
On Sunday, Jun 22, 2003, at 08:04 Asia/Tokyo, Aoun Shamsi wrote:
> What is the point? Surely the most important thing is the delivery of
> data regardless of the technology and all the problems that surround
> it.
> Users don't care if it's WiFi or 3G, they don't care if it's Bluetooth
> or Bubblegum - users want things to work! They want their data when
> they
> want it and on the device they are using.
Received on Tue Jun 24 06:07:40 2003