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acmejack

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Tue Jun-27-06 07:02 AM
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A Chance to wire(less) our world!

Edited on Tue Jun-27-06 07:05 AM by acmejack

Wi-fi pioneers offer cheap router

A Spanish firm is to sell subsidised routers as part of a plan to turn domestic wi-fi networks into public hotspots.

Fon will sell wi-fi routers, which allow people to surf the net wirelessly, for $5 (£2.75)

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Mr Urbanski said Fon was aiming to have 50,000 working hotspots worldwide by September, 150,000 by year-end and one million hotspots by the end of 2007.

To date, 54,000 people worldwide have signed up to become "foneros," up from 3,000 in February, according to the company.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5116960.stm

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Canuckistanian

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Tue Jun-27-06 07:07 AM
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1. WiFi is going to be obsolete

In terms of public access routers, WiMax will be the new standard.

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acmejack

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Tue Jun-27-06 07:28 AM
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2. But are they selling them NOW for $5?

For the present this is pretty cool IMO. I agree that wimax will be the thing. but most peoples equipment presently is running wifi and I'll play.

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Canuckistanian

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Tue Jun-27-06 08:52 AM
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3. Quite frankly, I don't know how they're going to do it.

Edited on Tue Jun-27-06 08:53 AM by Canuckistanian

They must be cutting some huge corners here. There's a lot of R&D, compliance issues and qualtity control to deal with. They have to recover those costs somehow.

Unless this is a predatory pricing thing and they're actually losing moneyu per unit in order to get the market.

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