Cellular Carriers under Siege
As more rivals, such as Wi-Fi outfits, ISPs, and even radio broadcasters, encroach on their turf, the wireless providers may need to merge
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SCORCHING HOT SPOTS. That hurt appears to be coming in 2003, which is starting to shape up as the year of Wi-Fi. Short for wireless fidelity, Wi-Fi is essentially a collection of thousands of access points around the country -- often called "hot spots" -- that allow anyone within a 300-foot radius and possessing a laptop with a wireless card to surf the Web at data-transfer speeds of 1 megabyte per second, vs. 56 kilobytes per second for most carriers' newly built networks.
As more rivals, such as Wi-Fi outfits, ISPs, and even radio broadcasters, encroach on their turf, the wireless providers may need to merge
...
SCORCHING HOT SPOTS. That hurt appears to be coming in 2003, which is starting to shape up as the year of Wi-Fi. Short for wireless fidelity, Wi-Fi is essentially a collection of thousands of access points around the country -- often called "hot spots" -- that allow anyone within a 300-foot radius and possessing a laptop with a wireless card to surf the Web at data-transfer speeds of 1 megabyte per second, vs. 56 kilobytes per second for most carriers' newly built networks.
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