Monday, September 23, 2002

Nicholas Negroponte on the WiFi revolution This great piece by Nicholas Negroponte in Wired underlines the trend of grassroots WiFi continuing its evolutionary path towards ubiquity. He argues that technology will naturally evolve to support peer-to-peer style bandwidth sharing in a controlled manner b/w these many nodes, or cells. I think layering revenue-generating subscriber services such as Boingo, Surf-n-Sip, and others, even on top of residential and corporate networks can help fuel the economics of WiFi growth. I'm not convinced that "friendly neighbor" WiFi bandwidth sharing will be as appealing as its advocates suggest. 5:55:27 PM    comment []

Werblog on Nokia pull-back from 3G Kevin Werbach notes some news picked up from Yahoo that talks about Nokia pulling back from its bets on 3G for future wireless services. This is another indicator that grassroots (and telco-backed) 802.11x services will likely supplant 3G for the wireless broadband promiseland. 5:25:57 PM    comment []