Dept. Of Pipe Dreams: Nationwide Wi-Fi?
Fresh off Earthlink’s monorail-esque hosing of our wi-fi hopes, folks are abuzz today over the idea of a nationwide wireless network. For those keeping score at home, the fun new word here is Wi-Max, an expansive high-speed clusterfuck currently being massaged into tentative existence by Time Warner and our own Comcast, who’ve earmarked a cool billion for it. With a strong and zippy name like that, what could go wrong? I mean, when have Comcast or grand experiments in far-reaching wi-fi ever let us down in the past?
KYW: We HAVE The Technology!
March 26th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Sprint has also heavily invested in Wi-Max with projects in a few cities (which includes Philly, I think). This hopefully means you have Wi-Max options besides Comcast. Hungry for more? You can geek out with this primer:
http://www.coolgadgets.org/what-is-wimax/
March 26th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
goddamit. does this mean i have to start paying for internets? i like the fact that earthlink only works some of the time because they can’t tell how “some” of the time it works. and i’ve been stickin’ to the man for about a year now. i just make a call once a month and say “yeah, i got nothing,” and voila, another month’s credited to my account.
oh well, at least the shit will work all the time. or i’ll be able to stick it to the wi-max man too.
March 26th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Turns out Comcast and Sprint are in cahoots on this project.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jrmO31DQXXCJJIf1yhyiqNSR9mGQD8VL3DFO0