On 12/6/02 7:22 PM, "johnson jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What are the available billing system options for someone wanting to set up > hotspots and charge users? Do "off-the-shelf" options exist?
I wrote a short article on my site listing all of the options I know about and the public information they disclose about payment at <http://80211b.weblogger.com/turnkey_hotspots.html> The long and the short of it is that Surf and Sip and Fatport are your two likeliest candidates for simplicity and multiple options, while still connecting you to Boingo customers who might wander by. I can't comment on the technical or professional advantages of either, and there are definitely some reasons for particular venues or businesses to examine the other options. Interestingly, Boingo's CEO announced at the 802.11 Planet conference on Wednesday that they were working with various consumer and enterprise access point makers to offer a Boingo Ready brand, so you'd buy, say, a commodity Linksys unit and it would have the ability to be easily turned into a Boingo node. We'll see how that all pans out, but it's an interesting idea. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Fleishman, Unsolicited Pundit: read my work at http://glennf.com freelance reporter for The New York Times, Macworld, InfoWorld, et al. Macintosh columnist, The Seattle Times http://seattletimes.com/ptech/ read all the wireless networking news at http://80211b.weblogger.com/ daily Web log musing on technology and my life http://blog.glennf.com/ -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
