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The State of Wireless On the Go

In this blog to the NY Times, Connecting to the Internet on the Go, published two weeks ago, you will find a very interesting and revealing discussion with about 90 comments, which shows the current attitude among early adopters who use broadband while traveling, with considerable variety evident in the discussion. Plenty of viewpoints and perspectives, multiple ideas on how things could be better, but not much challenging of the way things are, more attempts to find work-arounds.

Consider the time you spend to browse this item an eye-opening stroll through the minds of travelers who adopt various work-arounds to make cellular wireless broadband work for them. The theme of the blog post is the utility of Sprint's new USB antenna, which includes storage and built-in features to provide more convenience. Of course, it's still a relatively high-priced service with various restrictions.

And, considering that absent any movement to create the type of city-wide wireless broadband alternatives that we talk about on this site, we will all be left with these alternatives from the major carriers, with slowly ascending capabilities and slowly descending prices, all calculated to maximize shareholder gains for the carriers and maintain dominance in the marketplace, and not so much calculated to fully leverage technology to provide a boon to mankind.

For better or worse, that's the way it is when corporations are in control. So it goes.

Posted on May 29, 2008 at 10:40 AM

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