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June 18, 2004

Mobile Services on Super-Hotspots

OK, so maybe this insight won't win any no-Bell prizes, but here goes:

Not only would wireless services on unlicensed TV spectrum break the telco/cableco duopoly and cause prices for them to fall another notch, but they would host a new generation of mobile, or at least untethered, services, to be discovered.

And what do you call a hotspot that has a radius of a mile? With a tip of the hat to the coiner of the term "super-commons" and the instigator of "SuperNova," I suggest that "Super-Hotspot" works for me.

Posted by David Isenberg at June 18, 2004 04:13 PM

Comments

Wireless HotZone

Posted by: Steve Stroh at June 18, 2004 10:09 PM

how about a neighbornode?

see http://www.neighbornode.com for a reason to create "super-hotspots" in the first place

Posted by: anthony at June 19, 2004 12:14 PM

Aaargh ! Steve beat me to it ;)

I'm currently on a commercial wireless mesh network called Ozone (http://www.ozone.net) based in Paris.

Ozone calls it's wireless MAN "oBones" which provides backhaul for wifi "oZones".

Posted by: Mark Cabiling at June 20, 2004 02:47 AM

We used to talk about these things ... one Friday afternoon term was the communisection (where section is a square mile)

Posted by: steve crandall at June 23, 2004 11:37 AM