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...telcos. Or scorn them for their bad investments. Remember the billions they pumped into 3G, that supposedly transformative technology that would have us all downloading Matrix sequels over our wristwatches and holding videophone conversations with grandma? All that's beginning to look a little bit moot as another wireless technology, faster and much cheaper than 3G, gains popularity...
...Playing spoiler is a wireless Internet access system called Wi-Fi that is increasingly available in airports, restaurants, hotels, subway stations and other public places. Originally intended for use in private home and office networks, Wi-Fi (which stands for wireless fidelity) isn't as sophisticated as 3G cellular. The small, stand-alone Wi-Fi transmitters that pass information between computers and the Internet have a range of about 90 m; you can't roam far from a base station without losing the connection. But blazing speed?data zips along at 11 megabits per second, more than five times faster...
...continues to spread, Wi-Fi could capture up to one-third of the revenues mobile carriers had hoped to get from corporate 3G users, according to some industry analysts. Portable computer makers now sell many models with built-in Wi-Fi capabilities (the technology is also referred to as Wireless LAN, for local-area network, or as 802.11b). Setting up a network takes no license and no special skills. A simple base station costs as little...
...Grassroots Wi-Fi access points, called "hot spots," are already spreading throughout Asia. Hong Kong's Rosedale Hotel, for example, wanted to market itself as a cyberboutique. Last year the establishment spent a mere $650 to install Wi-Fi and now gives wireless broadband service away to guests. In Singapore, networking giant Cisco systems has helped put hot spots in A&W Restaurants, shopping plazas and at the city's convention center. In Japan, NTT Communications has announced it intends to sprinkle Wi-Fi base stations around the country?a move that observers say could pickpocket revenue from sister company...