> TjL wrote:
> > As for San Fran... they are still planning to cover the city in FREE WIFI.
>
> To be fair: free *slow* WiFi, upgradeable for cash to higher speeds.
If by "fair" you mean "ridiculously argumentative as usual, wrong on
the fact while ignoring the crux of the argument as I've done so
often before" then YES, Roger, I agree with your assessment.
To completely blow your absolutely untrue and indefensible claim "to
be fair" response out of the water, SF's free wireless would be 300
KBPS. You can verify this by checking out Google and about 59,000
hits that I get when I put
free wifi "san francisco" kbps
into the search engine. Or check out
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2006/02/23/BUGESHCVK61.DTL&type=tech
Are you seriously calling 300 KBPS "slow WiFi"?
Let's say it was 100 KBPS. How fast is the free EvDO in your city?
Oh, right: 0 KBPS.
I then plugged
"evdo speeds treo kbps"
into Google and you know what I found out? 200-400 KBPS is about what
you can expect from EvDO. So it's absolutely absurd to make any sort
of "Well the free WiFi will be slower" argument when talking about the
plans for San Franscisco.
It doesn't hold water.
You are wrong. Can you admit that?
Going back to the crux of the argument is "Free WiFi is available in
many places. Free EvDO is available NOWHERE."
Giving the Treo WiFi capabilities means that I can control whether I
spend money for Internet access (maybe I only need it some months, and
not others). It also gives me the ability to use the Internet for
free many places, such as my home and my office, the last hotel I went
to, my mom's house, my brother in law's house, my brother's house....
Free WiFi: yes, some places, lots of places. Can pay for a day/month
if you find yourself needing it
Free EvDO: no, nowhere and no speed. Monthly contract required. No
ability to open up your phone and say "Wow, I really need to jump
online. Sure I could pay $10 for internet access today, if I had
WiFi. I wish I had spent $30-50 a month every month so I could access
the web today."
Lack of WiFi is bad for the consumer, and good for Sprint and Verizon.
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