http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/ Engadget Comments for Ericsson exec sees WiFi hotspots becoming the new telephone booths http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 12:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 3:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
:P]]>Mar 10th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
Yeah we do! Every time you buy overpriced coffee you pay a little to the WiFi fund

(as well as he bottles of bubbly at the shareholders meeetings and their PA's glamorous lingerie)]]>Mar 10th 2008 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
You don't meet girls often(PA or otherwise) do you?


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The city where I live (Portland) has a city-wide WiFi called MetroFi (www.metrofi.com). There's a free version that's paid for by advertising, and you can pay $20/mo or so for a non-advertising version. It's flippin' sweet, and way cheaper than setting up DSL or cable to your house. Of course, it doesn't cover everywhere -- I can't get it at home or work yet, since both are on the outskirts. But it's growing in area, and anytime I'm in town I can get online.]]>Mar 10th 2008 2:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 10:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 2:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
I agree that Skype potentially is a disruptive technology, but I think saying people "don't want to pay [for] nothin'" is misleading. People simply want to pay the lowest for the best service - it's human nature!]]>Mar 10th 2008 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
it's no mystery why HSPA is the carriers choice, they make money on it PER-PERSON! Puts it all back ion their control.]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
Pfffff. ]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
http://www.fon.com]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
More politely, You can't use a wifi hotspot as a bathroom.]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
LTE!]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/


Yes, I know he can use the revolving doors, but I think Lex Luthor is behind this all.]]>Mar 10th 2008 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 10th 2008 6:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/I use it to have a quick access to the city map with my ipod touch whenever I'm lost. It ain't free though]]>Mar 10th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 11th 2008 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
HSPA is WAY too expensive, with coverage that is WAY too limited, and in a lot of cases, isn't even available. Until we get DL/UL speeds that are as fast as WiFi, with virtually blanketed coverage, and at prices that aren't absolutely insane (based on the average person, not the average millionaire exec), then we're going to be working on Met-based WiFi coverage for a loooooong time.

The "new phonebooths"? I understand what he's trying to say, but that's hardly an accurate analogy at this point. We've got a LONG way to go first.

Quite frankly, we should be a lot further along than what we are. It's as though the people who make things like this happen either don't care or don't understand. Or both. Technology moves forward, but I suppose in about another ten years of fighting governmental and corporate bureaucratic ignorance and apathy, we'll finally manage to have available the coverage, speed, and pricing we want and could probably offer today.]]>Mar 11th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
We are NOT interested in any of the business models in use on the Internet.

Mobile operators will offer very little or nothing for free, "the customer will therefore have to be educated into accepting that mobile services are convenient exciting "Premium" services and will therefore be chargeable at all times.


So I for one am not supprised that Ericsson's Chief Marketing Officer is banging the HSPA drum loudly.

After all Ericsson will want to sell lots of nice shiny new switches wont they?
and dont hey also make mobile phones?!!]]>Mar 11th 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 11th 2008 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/Mar 11th 2008 1:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/10/ericsson-exec-sees-wifi-hotspots-becoming-the-new-telephone-boot/
Wade
http://www.freewifihotspotsoftware.com]]>Oct 6th 2008 10:13PM