Comments on: South Bend, Indiana gets downtown hotzone http://www.muniwireless.com/2005/03/02/south-bend-indiana-gets-downtown-hotzone/ Municipal wireless, citywide WiFi, WiMAX, broadband news Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:07:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Sen McCartney http://www.muniwireless.com/2005/03/02/south-bend-indiana-gets-downtown-hotzone/comment-page-1/#comment-5837 Sen McCartney Sat, 23 Jul 2005 05:22:40 +0000 http://muniwireless.sandboxdev.com/?p=4613#comment-5837 As odd as it sounds, I forsee this: Television, radio, news, and communication (phones, email, etc.) will be supplied via a free wireless system to all. What won't be free are the premium services provided via Wi-Fi. Things like premium channels, movies, music albums, complete internet (not just limited to email and such), and outgoing calls will have charges in either a per use or monthly subscription plan. If this happens, the question of who supplies the Wi-Fi becomes mute. The question becomes who do you pay for the services. Of course, this will take some technological consolidation. Nevertheless, within 10 years we'll be checking our in boxes for the latest edition of Time magazine with the same thing we talk to our grandparents on, which is also the machine that gets us to eBay. As odd as it sounds, I forsee this:

Television, radio, news, and communication (phones, email, etc.) will be supplied via a free wireless system to all. What won’t be free are the premium services provided via Wi-Fi. Things like premium channels, movies, music albums, complete internet (not just limited to email and such), and outgoing calls will have charges in either a per use or monthly subscription plan.

If this happens, the question of who supplies the Wi-Fi becomes mute. The question becomes who do you pay for the services.

Of course, this will take some technological consolidation. Nevertheless, within 10 years we’ll be checking our in boxes for the latest edition of Time magazine with the same thing we talk to our grandparents on, which is also the machine that gets us to eBay.

]]> By: directsite.net http://www.muniwireless.com/2005/03/02/south-bend-indiana-gets-downtown-hotzone/comment-page-1/#comment-5836 directsite.net Fri, 13 May 2005 03:54:45 +0000 http://muniwireless.sandboxdev.com/?p=4613#comment-5836 <strong>The Fight For Municipal WiFi Access Comes to Town</strong> <p>So while the local newspaper has decided to <a href="http://directsite.net/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=87&mode=&order=0&thold=0">take something away</a>, the city itself has decided to give something back. In a direct rebuke to </p> The Fight For Municipal WiFi Access Comes to Town

So while the local newspaper has decided to take something away, the city itself has decided to give something back. In a direct rebuke to

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