Wi-Fi dream turns sour

Hopes for hassle-free public Wi-Fi were riding high five years ago. So what went wrong?

Guy Kewney
03 March 2008

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“Of course, the airport departure lounge is not the only location where mobile wireless systems would be useful,” wrote my esteemed colleague, Martin Banks, five years back. In a startlingly prescient...

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