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Earthlink Muni-Fi Phone
Being beta tested in Anaheim
by Karl Bode Tuesday 20-Mar-2007 tags: business · wireless · alternatives · municipal
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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PolarBear03
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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.
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Will this phone service be tied into the video surveillance system?

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Video surveillance? What surveillance? I don't know what you're talking about

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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.
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Re: Why Anaheim?

Much agreed on that one.

JamesPC

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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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