Earthlink Muni-Fi Phone Being beta tested in Anaheim Light Reading points out that Earthlink is testing a Wi-Fi phone service in conjunction with Accton Technology Corporation. The phone will work primarily over their municipal Wi-Fi networks, and the first incarnation is being beta tested over their deployment in Anaheim, California. "We expect that many people who use cell phones today in our municipal Wi-Fi markets will want to switch to a Wi-Fi phone to take advantage of the significant cost savings," says an Earthlink exec. Not if they want their mobile phone to work in more than a handful of Earthlink Wi-Fi cities, they won't.
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 PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium join:2005-01-03 | T-Mobile T-Mobile beat them to it. And even though the service advertises it works on your home router and T-Mobile hotspots, it will actually work on any wi-fi service without a click-through page. -- "I invented it, Bill made it famous." --David Bradley, the inventor of Ctrl+Alt+Del. | |
|  |  batterupI Can Not Tell A Lie.Premium join:2003-02-06 Netcong, NJ | Re: T-Mobile Will this phone service be tied into the video surveillance system? | |
|  |  |  PolarBear03The bear formerly known as aaron8301Premium join:2005-01-03 | Re: T-Mobile Video surveillance? What surveillance? I don't know what you're talking about 
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1 edit | Why Anaheim? Anaheim is a Tourist city (Disneyland, Convention Center, Etc). Most of the people who are there are only there for a few days and then they are gone. I can't see them purchaing a wi-fi phone for a couple of days. Anaheim is not a big-business city.
They should do this in a large business city, like downtown LA where people can actually make use of their phone on a regular, ongoing basis. -- [[Your signature here]] | |
|  |  | | Re: Why Anaheim? Much agreed on that one. | |
|  |  |  | | Re: Why Anaheim? anaheim is plenty big enough 310,000 ppl. | |
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 | | It's starting.. There's a lot more to this than the article explained. It has to deal with Helio.
Helio will offer a cell phone/wi-fi service in conjuction with Earthlink.
I believe Earthlink will use Anaheim as a test bed for the service. If successful, it will expand the venture with its wireless service. | |
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