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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedAT&T, Apple, BT, O2, BBC lead charge to free Wi-Fi.
Online Reporter, The, February, 2008
AT&T's decision to make its 10,000 or so Wi-Fi hotspots available for free to subscribers to its wired (as opposed to mobile) broadband customers is part of a trend that could have a major impact on such varied things as eliminating CD/DVD drives from laptops and other portable devices to a business model where consumers pay for content but get the device free.
The thought of everyone walking around with a device in their pocket or purse that always has a high-speed Internet connection is staggering. It conjures up the possibility that true wireless broadband (1 Mbps or greater) may change the way we do things more than the fixed wire Internet at home has changed things. It could also be a precursor to WiMAX and other 4G technologies such as LTE that offer...
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