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Communications News, Feb, 2003 by Ed Moura
At least you could also print the other side of the story ("The Wi-Fi threat," Editor's Note, October)! Wi-Fi is only helping us break away from the old and obsolete telecom business model and help us create a true "information utility" infrastructure just like water and electricity.
The good thing is that at least DSL providers do understand what is really happening and are letting Wi-Fi operators share their DSL lines. In my humble opinion, the carriers that are still fighting are doomed anyway. For (the DSL providers), that is a very good thing, since it will help them become long-term information utility players.
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Like you said, every building (big or small) in the world will become a "hot spot," and even if the carriers try to stop it, wireless mesh networking technologies will ultimately allow these Wi-Fi hot spot networks to become fully integrated into larger hot zones.
Look at it this way, Wi-Fi (802.11) has been the only "bright spot" a telecom industry which has gone bad! Communications News should embrace it, vs. calling it a "threat."
Some carriers are already doing something in this space. Sprint has an investment in Boingo, T-Mobile has Wi-Fi inside all of the Starbucks coffee shops, and AT&T Wireless also just made some recent Wi-Fi announcement for inside airports.
It is true that the SOHO markets are leading the Wi-Fi expansion, but even today the enterprise end-users are already benefiting quite significantly. Every day, we have many traveling executives, which are also enterprise users, using Wi-Fi hot spots at hotels and other public locations.
From the editor: So much for using a tongue-in-cheek reference to bring attention to the growth of Wi-Fi. The editorial in question was touting Wi-Fi networks, as well as calling them a threat to carrier networks if they continued to grow organically outside control of the telcos. Communications News does, of course, embrace any technology that enhances enterprise voice and data networks, including Wi-Fi.
Ed Moura, President & CEO SOHO Wireless, www.sohowireless.com
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