Om man tänker sig mobilt Internet ur ett laptopperspektiv snarare än ett telefonlursperspektiv är wi-fi en betydligt mer spännande grej än 3G. Och hur kommer wi-fi att byggas ut? Detta är en idé:
”Most people do their computing at home or at work, and deploying WiFi to those two areas will cost at worst a couple hundred bucks, assuming no one to split the cost with. There may be a small business in wiring ’third places’ — coffee shops, hotels, and meeting rooms — but that will be a marginal business at best. WiFi is the new fax machine, a huge value for consumers that generates little new revenue for the phone companies. And, like the fax network, the WiFi extension to the internet will cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but it will not be built by a few companies with deep pockets. It will be built by millions of individual customers, a hundred dollars at a time.” Läs mer (shirky.com). [Länk via Digitala bönder 13 januari]
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