C2, you obviously didn't read my business model very closely. I was out by a factor of 10. It's a wildly successful model.
Yes, yes, there's backhaul [across the RoamAD network for no extra cost], roaming is easy. People just click their device and select the network they want to log onto. People at university are 90% of the time at university or home or enroute, so they don't do a lot of roaming. Same for downtown people. They would be on RoamAD all day and on their home WiFi by night.
Security is just a bit of software. No big deal there. Maintenance is easy. Just unplug a defective unit and plug in another. People have multiple access points anyway in RoamAD so they wouldn't notice anything. Labour is just maintenance by another name - sure, a network would have somebody keeping the network looking nice.
Those costs are trivial.
If CDMA, which was not so new in 1995 as its then current hype was viable, it would have happened a long time ago. Same for WiFi you think?
The fact that something hasn't been done doesn't mean it can't be done.
WiFi is not just cheap. It's fast. Very, very fast. It makes 1xRTT look an expensive pathetic joke.
WiFi doesn't have IMJ, Klein, Viterbi or Roberto and the gang pushing it, but Intel has some people with some know how. And a lot more besides, making all sorts of devices. WiFi gadgets are everywhere. And getting really cheap.
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