> www.80211-planet.com/columns/article/0,4000,1781_1473511,00.html > > [...] > > Wyndham senior vice president and chief technology officer Mark Hedley > believes that within three to five years, high-speed wireless Internet > access in hotels will be provided not over local 802.11 networks > but via nationwide 3G networks.
Wyndham and countless other companies, in countless industries, will always prefer to sell products that are proprietary because they have greater revenue potential. In general, these companies do not care about any form of "commons". Anything that is has not yet been marketized, or quantified in our money system doesn't exist, and these sorts of companies are against standardization of anything. I conclude Wyndham either plans to get a payoff from some 3G telco or ISP scheme, or they have been beaten by monopolists so many times they are simply not willing to bet on unlicensed, standards-based, owner-operated Internet. Todd At 05:55 PM 10/1/2002, Ken Berger wrote: >There was an earlier post saying that the debate on this subject would last >5 minutes. Here's someone with something of a contrarian view. I won't >comment, will leave that to the group :) > >-Ken -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
