June 26, 2006 5:27 AM PDT
A muni Wi-Fi cautionary tale
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What if they built an urban wireless network and hardly anyone used it? Taipei is finding out.
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- It's just obvious that WiFi is becoming a free "expected amenity" of retail establishments. Soon you won't go to a coffee shop without free WiFi any more than you'd use one that didn't have air-conditioning or a restroom. People will just naturally expect that establishments "give away" some minimum speed WiFi connection, and if the place doesn't, they'll go elsewhere. The "T-Mobile hotspot at Starbucks" model is doomed. In a few years no one will be willing to pay anything at all.
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