[WISPA] Waverider Equipment
I have alot of Waverider equipment I need to get rid of.. 2004-2005-2006 and CCU'S.. anyone interested? please hit me off list.. webbil...@surfmore.net jeanh...@surfmore.net or phone the office or my cell. 931-363-7700 office 931-638-7873 cell.. Thanks Jean WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
Re: [WISPA] Future of Wifi Offloading WAS: Ericsson is buyingBelAir, betting on Wi-Fi
Very nice post. You are wrong. Very well thought out about what is 'wifi' today. By the time 2017 (or even closer dates) get here the network will not be called 'wifi' and it wont be. I think what the cellco's are looking for, and might find, is a wireless protocol that lets the have even smaller cells (like wifi) but gives this the stability of 'cellular' as it exists now. Think of it as a hybrid. Cellcos would love to increase capacity if the AP's did not cost millions to toss in. Hell $10,000 AP's and they would deploy them every place, including out by farmer Johns barn and Maid Marians Dairy. This is not about WiFi as it exists but about what it will become. Ubnt has shown that Atheros chips can do interesting things when the right brain is put to work on it. Imagine Ubnt reworked by people with a budget 100x theirs is, with decades more experience then them. Toss those devices onto a full fiber back-haul (most NFL cities have decent fiber rings) and most small towns are so small its trivial to fiber them if they do not already have at least a passing fiber. The people out in BFE will have more classic (LTE) cellular available to them and it will 'be enough'. Im not scared of the cell go killing my wisp business any time soon. I am scared I will not be able to deploy fiber myself. Once the cellco has a good fiber ring in some city, why not add wire-line services to it, or lease it to someone else to do it with. On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Tom DeReggi wrote: > I'm not saying I disagree. John's prediction may very well be the outcome. > I'm just saying, I heard the same arguement in 2005 about 2010 predictions, > and we aren't dead yet. > I've never questioned the service provider's interest in going after that > market. I just question the consumer's interest in accepting it. Right now > Mobile wifi is fun and cool, because it is "new", just like any other Fad. > Last year it was mobile Facebook or twitter. This year its mobile "scrabble" > (with Internet opponents), something for parent to do while waiting for > junior's guitar lesson to be over. But evenually, the "fun" will wear its > welcome thin, because it wont be fun anymore. People dont like AD-HTTP-SPAM. > People want privacy. People dont want to be found. > > My prediction for 2017 is that 90% of all Americans will have thrown their > Android in the nearest lake atleast once, yelling victoriously , "I have had > enough, I am done with the mobile Wifi, I want my life back, I am Free!". > And then they will probably go back and buy another one, because they > realize they should have a phone in case of Emergency or if their car breaks > down, becaue they feel helpless and empty without the ability to make an > outbound call from anywhere when ever they want. Or miss the security that > their kid can call them any time. There is a real need for that type of > communication. But the "mobile wifi"? > > In 2017, Wifi will be Passe. People will say, why am I doing this, Does this > realy help me? Do I really need to check my home fridgerator's temporature > remotely? Some people will look down on other people that use their mobile > Wifi in public, as if they are a rude persons that ignores those around them > just to stare at a small screen, or someone that has lost their ability to > socialize in a real way with real people around them. To much of a good > thing becomes a bad thing. Wifi will officilay be listed as a "disease", and > a new branch will be opened at Betty Ford Clinic, for Wifi addicts. > Our children, the new generation which would have been raised on wifi by > then, will be tough to wean off Wifi back to society. Sorta like daress > syndrum (not sure spelling), people will walk around having these > uncontrollable urges and involuntary twitches every few minutes, where their > neck will slap to the side, as if they were checking their invisible Android > for the next Email alert. Cases of sleeping pill overdose would have > skyrocketed, for all those People that never got an ounch of sleep at night > because their cell phone beeps every 2 miuntes through out the night, and > their obsession forces them to actually check the alerts instead of turn off > their phone. Their treatment will be to get rid of the Android. AA will > expand to offer Wifi addict groups, which will be a successful program > because of the LIVE human social aspect of the group, something the > attendees secretly longed for as a Wifi android. Unemployment will be the > highest ever, and the number one cause for firing will be that the employee > couldn't focus on work or wasn't productive, because they were always on > their personal mobile wifi phone, instead of working.. > Then Wifi Providers will start to think, why are we doing this? How can we > make any money if all our customers are in rehab and talk groups and out of > money, instead of in the stores shopping? > > The death toll from people getting hit crossing the street will skyrocket,
Re: [WISPA] Future of Wifi Offloading WAS: Ericsson is buyingBelAir, betting on Wi-Fi
I'm not saying I disagree. John's prediction may very well be the outcome. I'm just saying, I heard the same arguement in 2005 about 2010 predictions, and we aren't dead yet. I've never questioned the service provider's interest in going after that market. I just question the consumer's interest in accepting it. Right now Mobile wifi is fun and cool, because it is "new", just like any other Fad. Last year it was mobile Facebook or twitter. This year its mobile "scrabble" (with Internet opponents), something for parent to do while waiting for junior's guitar lesson to be over. But evenually, the "fun" will wear its welcome thin, because it wont be fun anymore. People dont like AD-HTTP-SPAM. People want privacy. People dont want to be found. My prediction for 2017 is that 90% of all Americans will have thrown their Android in the nearest lake atleast once, yelling victoriously , "I have had enough, I am done with the mobile Wifi, I want my life back, I am Free!". And then they will probably go back and buy another one, because they realize they should have a phone in case of Emergency or if their car breaks down, becaue they feel helpless and empty without the ability to make an outbound call from anywhere when ever they want. Or miss the security that their kid can call them any time. There is a real need for that type of communication. But the "mobile wifi"? In 2017, Wifi will be Passe. People will say, why am I doing this, Does this realy help me? Do I really need to check my home fridgerator's temporature remotely? Some people will look down on other people that use their mobile Wifi in public, as if they are a rude persons that ignores those around them just to stare at a small screen, or someone that has lost their ability to socialize in a real way with real people around them. To much of a good thing becomes a bad thing. Wifi will officilay be listed as a "disease", and a new branch will be opened at Betty Ford Clinic, for Wifi addicts. Our children, the new generation which would have been raised on wifi by then, will be tough to wean off Wifi back to society. Sorta like daress syndrum (not sure spelling), people will walk around having these uncontrollable urges and involuntary twitches every few minutes, where their neck will slap to the side, as if they were checking their invisible Android for the next Email alert. Cases of sleeping pill overdose would have skyrocketed, for all those People that never got an ounch of sleep at night because their cell phone beeps every 2 miuntes through out the night, and their obsession forces them to actually check the alerts instead of turn off their phone. Their treatment will be to get rid of the Android. AA will expand to offer Wifi addict groups, which will be a successful program because of the LIVE human social aspect of the group, something the attendees secretly longed for as a Wifi android. Unemployment will be the highest ever, and the number one cause for firing will be that the employee couldn't focus on work or wasn't productive, because they were always on their personal mobile wifi phone, instead of working.. Then Wifi Providers will start to think, why are we doing this? How can we make any money if all our customers are in rehab and talk groups and out of money, instead of in the stores shopping? The death toll from people getting hit crossing the street will skyrocket, and the mobile Wifi will be the target cause. Insurance companies will launch massive lobbying campains for federal action. Not only will it it be illegal to drive a car with an android in hand as it is today, but by federal law, it will also be made illegal to "walk" or "be in movement" within 10ft of a street, while holding an android. State's will love it. The ticketing revenue will far exceed the revenue of traffic street cameras. The most ironic part is, they APs used to serve the public wifi will be the same APs that internet-enable the camera's snapping photos of the Walking mobile violators. (It will be endorsed entrapment.) AD- revenue will no longer be needed to fund Free-Wifi, and Google will not be happy with that. All the pedestrian tickets will easilly pay for the wifi network management, and the governor will not hesitate to defend his action argueing that the additional funds it raised helped improve the Schools education system. Then someone will reminance about the day when it actually felt free to leave home, and take a stroll in the park without disruption, where they could actually feel relaxed enough to want to listen to the birds. And then they'll go dry their car fast, or go skiiing, free from wifi. And they'll realize that every day could be like that again. And they'll start a new "movement" for improveing quality of life, that doens't include wifi. And then the marketers will recognize that it really is more effective to have a big poster in the window, maybe with a pretty girl o
