Sunday, December 01, 2002

Thorough Wall Street Journal reporting on Wi-Fi hot spots and its challenge to cellular: This very thorough story -- available for free via MSNBC -- outlines the threat to cellular's next generation. As one interviewee notes, the majority of places that high-speed cellular would be ideal can be more easily served by Wi-Fi. This is in accord with my world view. I'm waiting for the time when an article like this can focus on the next level, rather than recapitulating everyone since prehistory. It takes maturity for a technology before mainstream business reporting can assume its readers can understand the background in a paragraph instead of 1,000 words. The New York Times already assumes that, but that's partly because of their heavy tech focus over the last few years, and their Circuits section. [80211b News] 6:50:39 AM    comment []