London: WiMAX and the Wireless Trend July 17, 2007
Posted by Ari Zoldan in Analyses and Speculations.add a comment
The New York Times recently reported on London’s installation of a free Wi-Fi network that runs along 13.6 miles of the River Thames and is set up for an 8-plus mile expansion in the next month alone. The article referred to the network as part of a “gradual trend toward free public wireless Internet access in Europe and the United States.”
This is an interesting statement in the wake of Paris’ developments in the world of wireless access as well as the general sense of urgency in making access synonymous with mobility. Online-4-Free.com even markets the new London network this way:
online-4-free is a fast, convenient, simple-to-use broadband internet access service. We’ve created a wireless (Wi-Fi) network allowing you to connect to the internet at hundreds of locations around the UK – in coffee shops, bars and even outside while enjoying the sunshine!
This increasing fixation on wireless access—anywhere, anytime and under whatever conditions are most satisfying to the user—paves a perfect path for the introduction of WiMAX, which can further facilitate both the distance and speeds at which data can be accessed.
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Ari Zoldan
Launch 3 Communications
