Hello All,
Interesting article.... paid WiFi planned in UPS stores. Ah, but UPS
forgot one thing, the cost of adding chairs in the stores. :-)
-Ben
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UPS plans to use promotional offers, such as a free hour of Web time in
return for upgrading a package shipment from ground to air, Costides said.
UPS will piggyback the connection to the Internet through an
already-installed nationwide network that serves in-store computers and
point-of-sales systems, Costides said. The network uses Digital Subscriber
Lines (DSL) with an average throughput of 256Kbit/sec., or in some cases,
cable modems.
UPS has isolated and secured the portion of the network that will carry
public traffic between in-store systems, Costides said. During peak periods
for the in-store systems, managers will be able to cut back throughput on
the network carrying Wi-Fi traffic.
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> UPS Delivers Public-access Wi-Fi To Its Retail Outlets
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> United Parcel Service sees the technology as a way to drive customer
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> http://computerworld.com/newsletter/0,4902,84833,00.html?nlid=PM
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