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News that's changing the Wireless World!
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Friday, August 15, 2003 |
Marina-Fi. Washington State and B.C. marinas get Wi-Fi: An entrepreneur has unwired 21 marinas. Service can be reached in some places 2 miles out of the marina, and costs $6.95 per day or $39.95 per month. Better yet, the company says they have 1,000 people signed up, although from the article it's hard to tell whether that means "sessions and subscriptions" or just subscriptions. $40,000 per month would be a nice starting point, if it's all monthly revenue. Although another group, Wheat Wireless's TeleSea division, claimed to have unwired marinas around North America, their coverage map hasn't been updated since 2002 and their press releases end in March 2003. (The company posted a comment below -- has anyone used their service in any marina?)... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
4:38:24 PM 
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Understanding Spectrum. The New America Foundation explains spectrum policy--graphically!: A researcher at the foundation, which describes itself as an independent, non-partisan, non-profit public policy institute, alerted me to their new (and free) report, The Citizen's Guide to the Airwaves. This handsomely and expertly produced set of writings and graphics clearly shows the disproportionate value assigned to segments of spectrum, and the lumpiness and irregular approach taken by regulatory, legislative, and executive approaches to spectrum management. The U.S. has a crisis in spectrum because of how it's been distributed, sold, given away, allowed to be used on an unlicensed basis. This document goes a long way towards explaining the fix we're in and presents ideas about how to solve it. Even better, it quantifies so much: current value of various chunks of the frequency dial, and the potential value that could be realized.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
4:37:44 PM
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Sacramento Airport's Wi-Fi Price Tag. Sacramento airport gets Wi-Fi for $110,000: I'm so glad that airport authorities are starting to talk about the actual cost of providing service. I've been in the Sacramento airport and it's itsy-bitsy: I would be surprised if more than a dozen access points were needed, and only that many because of some odd twists and turns. The authority will pay for the cost from its share of revenue with the service provider. They're hoping for 35 users a day at $6.95. Of course, they don't understand the market by expecting that much money over three years in that way. If they resell access to their airport to aggregators and to other networks, they might have 200 to 300 people per day use it for and maybe get 50 cents to a buck per user today. Over time, perhaps several hundred users will employ it daily given the airport's volume, and they'll get only pennies per session. If they fail to resell access, then their plan is doomed as EDGE and other cellular services ramp up. If I have a fixed monthly plan and can get 100 Kbps for "free" or pay $6.95 for 1.5 Mbps or something similar, which do I choose? Medium-speed 2.5G will certainly threaten islands of connectivity.... [Wi-Fi Networking News]
4:35:12 PM
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