Wi-Fi dream turns sour

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

“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 pr...

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