An article at CNET talks about the 3G standard and the threat the volunteer wireless lans pose to it. Offering better data rates, etc.
It states: "It's a wireless carrier's worst nightmare. After a collective investment of more than $200 billion on spectrum licenses--and an expected investment of half again as much on infrastructure--to provide Internet anytime, anywhere capabilities, carriers are betting enough consumers will communicate over 3G networks to amortize the big bucks that went into buying all that spectrum and equipment. But if wireless LANs offer access in most places people do networking, with much higher data rates and across multiple devices, carriers might not be able to reap the rewards promised by 3G. " So, be prepared to be declared a threat to national security (ala Microsoft's accusations against open source) when the 3G network providers start to see us as cutting into their revenue stream. It is worth a read at: http://news.com.com/2010-1075-921563.html?tag=fd_nc_1 Robb __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
