Telepocalypse

Piggy in the middle

Someone's got some good ganja cooking over at Always On:

The core technologies to make personal broadband a reality are already in place—Wi-Fi, for example, is a personal broadband technology. However, Wi-Fi does not represent a sustainable service model because it uses public spectrum, because it does not support end-to-end class of service, and because it represents an addition to the existing cost of broadband access. The upshot is that we're still missing a clear global market vision and understanding of the personal broadband opportunity and its scope.

Since when did a technology need money-making middlemen with a "sustainable service model" to become blessed as a valid concern? Just because nobody can engage in rent-seeking behaviour and make globs of profit doesn't lessen the concept one iota.

"I'm sorry sir, you can't marry this woman as you do not appear to have been introduced by a licensed introduction agency to whom you have paid the appropriate fee."