NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: JOANIE WEXLER ON WIRELESS IN THE ENTERPRISE 08/23/04 Today's focus: WISP outlook dark, guru Andy Seybold says
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Click here: http://www.fattail.com/redir/redirect.asp?CID=73205 _______________________________________________________________ Today's focus: WISP outlook dark, guru Andy Seybold says By Joanie Wexler Wireless veteran and straight-shooter Andy Seybold last week presented his no-nonsense take on the state of the industry to the Wireless Communications Alliance, a Silicon Valley group that meets monthly to discuss industry goings-on. Seybold predicted that in two to three years, wireless ISPs (WISP) "will go out of business in droves, helped along by the WiMAX threat and [continued] 3G network rollouts." The hands-on wireless consultant (he owns his own radio tower), who heads the Andrew Seybold Group consulting firm, published a report last year severely questioning the business models of hot spot providers making Wi-Fi services their sole business. At the time, he had asked to see a business model from WISP Cometa Networks, but didn't get one. Cometa closed its doors in May 2004, after 17 months in business. "Wi-Fi will end up where it was originally intended: in the last 100 feet," Seybold predicted. "No single network will be all things to all people." Amen to that. Marketing folks, please make a note. Seybold observed that many establishments have caught on that telecom has become an amenity that might get hidden in the cost of a hotel room or a cup of coffee. But others have not. Near where he lives in Southern California, for example, coffee shops adjoining Starbucks offer free Internet access as long as you purchase something, he said. "So people sit at Starbucks [piggybacking on] the free Internet service next door rather than paying for the T-Mobile Wi-Fi service [which Starbucks offers for a fee]. If T-Mobile ends up making money on Wi-Fi, it will be because of Wi-Fi-WAN [3G] integration." Other things on Seybold's mind: * He opposes the FCC giving more spectrum to Wi-Fi and believes ��spectrum should go to WiMAX instead. * Rather than the WiMAX Forum attempting to harmonize spectrum ��around the world - an endeavor he considers nearly impossible - ��he suggests the WiMAX Forum Regulatory Working Group (RWG) ask ��the FCC for 700 MHz of existing TV spectrum. "More cell sites ��are required at higher frequencies," he explained. The RWG is ��currently focused on harmonizing the 2.5 GHz, 3.5 GHz and 5 GHz ��bands. * He predicted that bidders on future spectrum could be ��non-traditional players, including AOL, Intel and Microsoft. RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS Cometa succumbs; Wi-Fi carries on Network World, 05/24/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0524cometa.html WiMAX Forum tackles global spectrum issues Network World Wireless in the Enterprise Newsletter, 06/14/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/nlwir524 Wireless Communications Alliance home page http://www.wca.org/ Infonet beats hot-spot expectations Network World, 08/23/04 http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/082304infonet.html?nl2 _______________________________________________________________ To contact: Joanie Wexler Joanie Wexler is an independent networking technology writer/editor in California's Silicon Valley who has spent most of her career analyzing trends and news in the computer networking industry. She welcomes your comments on the articles published in this newsletter, as well as your ideas for future article topics. 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