Monday, December 16, 2002
WiFi Hot Spots For Sale
Posted by Andy Sjostrom in "NEWS" @ 05:22 AM
http://www.80211-planet.com/columns/article.php/1556821
Gerry Blackwell, writer at 802.11 Planet, has written an article about an interesting battle heating up in the WiFi hot spots market.
"Ryan Jarvis, co-founder and CEO of United Kingdom-based wholesale hotspot service provider Megabeam Networks, is feeling sweetly vindicated these days. First, Forrester Research gave his start-up company its good-business-model seal of approval last month. Then IBM, AT&T and Intel -- the latter perhaps not coincidentally also a Megabeam partner -- announced Cometa Networks, their North American hotspot joint venture with a strategy similar to Megabeam's. Cometa aims to sell hotspot infrastructure services to telcos, ISPs, cable operators and wireless carriers -- much as Megabeam is already doing in Europe. "It sounds quite a bit like us, doesn't it," Jarvis says of Cometa."
Read the full article here!
Gerry Blackwell, writer at 802.11 Planet, has written an article about an interesting battle heating up in the WiFi hot spots market.
"Ryan Jarvis, co-founder and CEO of United Kingdom-based wholesale hotspot service provider Megabeam Networks, is feeling sweetly vindicated these days. First, Forrester Research gave his start-up company its good-business-model seal of approval last month. Then IBM, AT&T and Intel -- the latter perhaps not coincidentally also a Megabeam partner -- announced Cometa Networks, their North American hotspot joint venture with a strategy similar to Megabeam's. Cometa aims to sell hotspot infrastructure services to telcos, ISPs, cable operators and wireless carriers -- much as Megabeam is already doing in Europe. "It sounds quite a bit like us, doesn't it," Jarvis says of Cometa."
Read the full article here!
