To: carranza2 who wrote (44025 ) 1/5/2005 7:13:25 PM From: Maurice Winn Read Replies (1) | Respond to <I fail to see a business case for a carrier or for anyone else for that matter, other than campuses, hotels, airports, and residences. Perhaps some VoIP might dig into carrier revenues but that is a long way off in any real sense. Unlimited HDR/DO service is presently $80US a month through Verizon, but will undoubtedly be half as much when Sprint rolls out its network. Between the two and the bother of staying in a hot spot, WiFi is going to be hurt in a big way by DO, especially its hot-stuff version, Rel. A or whatever it's called. >blog.livedoor.jp in his apartment building in Tokyo had three free connections when he moved in. So he could have just used any one of those. But of course you want your own, so you buy the gadget. The data is furiously fast and free, so who cares if somebody hooks up and uses your data pipe too? roamad.com design can be delivered to subscribers for US10c a megabyte in commercial networks. That's a LOT cheaper, not to mention faster, than the Telecom 1xEV-DO offering [buy their subscriber devices too, at great expense]. Vodafone's W-CDMA network when it fires up in mid-2005 won't be any cheaper and will be slower. skype.com
