Hi Saturn V, good post. Wifi plays the dominant theme in the consumer business markets, with its mch higher bandwidth, while 3G plugs some of the gaps in motion.
RE: "Verizon announced the deployment of a full 3G network in USA."
I see 3G as one additional Internet connection type to support, complementing the dominant wifi.
Recooping the deployment costs of a 3G tower ($100,000?) translates into passing higher online costs to the consumer, while a wifi access point might only cost $60. So, I see wifi holding the static domain, while 3G fills the gaps on the in-motion transport, e.g. highways.
Verisign is a great company and one of the few that really seems to know how to sell Cisco's products (and thus helps startups), along with Sprint. Their only problem is an unrealistic assumption that startups can work with them, when in this economic climate it's better to work directly with your customers than it is to take a leap in faith that these two will figure out how to sell your product. In this economic climate where valuations aren't sufficiently high enough to allow for startups to fund large company sales experiments, that means it needs to be done on the large company's dime, not the startups.
Regards,
Amy J |
