Airwave Battles May lead to an all-axcess Wireless Connection
By jason - up to 2007 (archived) • May 17th, 2007 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Wired reports on an all-axcess wireless connection:
“Apple’s iPhone may be the most eagerly awaited gadget of the year, but when it finally goes on sale some time next month, only 30 percent of US mobile phone customers — those who subscribe to AT&T’s wireless service — will be able to use it. Verizon subscribers might have had a shot, but executives at that carrier nixed the idea of letting an Apple device onto their network years ago. It’s as if Mac owners had to connect to the internet through AT&T because their machines wouldn’t work on Verizon, Comcast or Time Warner Cable.
The wire-line internet doesn’t work that way, and wireless doesn’t have to either. By the end of this year, the FCC is expected to start auctioning a frequency band that could be used for a wireless network that any device — be it a cell phone, laptop, desktop, TV or toaster — would be able to connect to.” Read more here
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