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...Sprint and Verizon, which are investing billions of dollars to deliver fancy 3G data services over your cell phone or laptop at slower rates and steeper fees. Yet there's no proof consumers will pay. "No wireless data-only network in the world has ever made money," warns Andrew Seybold, a wireless analyst based in Los Gatos, Calif. That so many have rushed to invest in Wi-Fi is, he predicts, "the next dotcom disaster...
Brilliant's big thinking isn't enough to convince some skeptics. Seybold says it would take 72 people connecting to an access point every day for three years to recoup the cost of constructing it. And if each access point covers only a 300-ft. radius, that's going to leave a lot of urban America outside the Cometa canopy...
...difference between a radio or TV broadcast and a wireless Internet connection is that everything that comes in over a PDA or cell phone can be customized specially for you. "It's about connectivity to our own information, whatever is important to us," says Andrew Seybold, editor of Andrew Seybold's Outlook, a wireless data and mobile computing industry newsletter. You get your e-mail, your instant messages, your stock portfolio. You can use a travel application to find out if your plane is on time and what gate it's leaving from...
...love it," said William S. Seybold '99, who wrote his thesis on a revolutionary opposition group to the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. "Everyone is going to write his thesis at the last minute. It's nice to do it ahead of time...
Allison E. Vigil '99 said she will be going job-hunting, while Seybold said he willdo "absolutely nothing...