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Article Excerpt
Alliances, competitors, technologies, hardware, and roaming line the path to dual-mode, cellular/Wi-Fi handsets.
another game of sit and wait has begun as major carriers ready themselves to swallow small providers whole once they have fattened themselves with successful Wi-Fi hotspots. Which end of this communications food chain are you on? Free spectrum is a good motive for providers to get into Voice over Wi-Fi. Providers will leverage the spectrum for voice as they do for data while they continue to build out their hotspots. When there is enough coverage by provider hotspots to make it worth their while, carriers will gobble up those providers. According to Todd Myers, CEO of Airpath, Wi-Fi hotspots will benefit carriers by adding spectrum where cellular spectrum is running out, and by providing needed fail-over and backup capabilities.
We've seen it with ISPs and DSL providers who made an easy meal for telecoms. You may even have seen the parallel on some nature documentary. The zebra eats the grass, and then the lion eats the zebra. In the same way, once the wild hotspots grow green ($!) and plentiful, and the providers have...
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