Going to the Olympics? Bring the wireless
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So where does everyone want wireless access
while they travel? Just the hotel and airport? Or like what
they did here in St Louis and have it all over downtown for free? Who
sees Lotus Instant Messaging (Sametime) being part of the craze (demand)?
From some recent news in the IT
Wireless Insider...
The resort town of Whistler,
B.C., is installing a Wi-Fi network that visitors and residents can access
from local hotels, shops, and venues. The Canadian ski locale will be home
to some Winter 2010 Olympic Games and has 2 million visitors each year.
Just another sign of the continued broad rollout of public hot spots.
In another section they showed some interesting
stats,
According to an international
survey of business travelers released by Intel, 71% of business travelers
are convinced that Wi-Fi hot spots will give them a communications advantage
over their competition. While only one in 10 road warriors has tried Wi-Fi,
nearly 90% see wireless computing in their future. While business travelers
predictably identified airports (77%), hotels (76%), and airplanes (60%)
as the places where they most need hot spots, they also expressed a desire
to have wireless Internet access in automobiles, trains, and hospitals.
This certainly does sound encouraging, but because the numbers from from
a vendor with a vested interest and the actual survey method is unknown,
the results should be taken with a grain of salt. However, the numbers
do reinforce studies by various analyst firms that public hot spits are
attractive to business travelers.
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On Monday, September 15th, 2003 by Chris Miller
