AW: [governance] 20th century arrives in Geneva

[Roland Perry]

In message <896052561.21733.1362940140871.JavaMail.www at wwinf1e08>, at 
19:29:00 on Sun, 10 Mar 2013, Jean-Louis FULLSACK <jlfullsack at orange.fr> 
writes
>An interesting article to be found in Mobile Europe is likely to be a 
>useful contribution to this debate. You'll find it here :
>
>http://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/News-Analysis/mwc-2013-carrier-grade-wi-fi
>-using-passpoint-won-t-be-available-till-2014

This correlates well with the efforts of mobile phone companies in the 
UK (and no doubt elsewhere) to try to offload data bandwidth onto "free" 
wifi. Which although it's counter-intuitive to offer customers data for 
free, rather than per-GB, allows their 2G/3G data networks to catch up 
with the demand from mobile users.

I don't believe in "one last push" [and then it's solved for ever] 
theory, and I expect that demand will continue to increase faster than 
they can build out 4G networks. Having a scheme in place to charge for 
the "free" wifi at some point in the future makes perfect sense.
-- 
Roland Perry

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