Wireless Breaks Out

Posted on December 20, 2001 by Dan Gillmor

  • Glenn Fleishmann: Public Space Wi-Fi’s Transforming Event. Boingo will build no hot spots. Instead, they are aggregating the network infrastructure of other companies and wrapping it up through a single user account, a single bill, and a single set of pricing. Dayton summarized the new firm’s thrust: “Boingo Wireless is a non- infrastructure wireless ISP.”
  • Alan Reiter: Earthlink’s nationwide wireless LAN business and cellular. Will Boingo Wireless adversely affect the plans of cellular operators to create “wireless Internet” demand for their next-generation networks? The short answer: No short- term affect, but there could be trouble ahead for the cellular carriers.

    I think this is likely to be a big deal over time, though the price strikes me as a bit high. More on this later.

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