Hi Patrick, Thanks for the info about the cafes around UCB. Great to see more and more free cafes establishing themselves. I recently read an article about a businessman in boston offering free WiFi in order to drive eyeballs to his Apple store. His cost for doing so was on the order of a few thousand dollars: a drop in the bucket when compared to the cost for advertising.
It seems that this will be the trend of the future: business' handing out free wifi and dock the cost involved from their marketing budget. If this is the case, what is the long-term business case for the fee-based hotspots? Seems like I would only use those when I am traveling, which is relatively rare. Cheers, Marc -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
