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Mobilestar Less Mobile; Excite@Home Less Exciting

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the companies-in-freefall dept.

jc1 writes: "MobileStar, provider of 802.11b wireless LAN connectivity throughout 500 of the USA's Starbucks cafes, has laid off 88 of its staff, which a source described as "everybody". With the demise in August of Metricom's Ricochet service, one is left to wonder if there is a business to be made in providing public wireless Internet services." Or any broadband internet access at all - Excite@Home, currently in bankruptcy proceedings, has stopped taking any new orders.

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  1. the irony is... by po_boy · · Score: 5, Funny

    All these people are being laid off, and now they'll be sitting around in Starbucks without even having any connectivity.

  2. A Source? by eAndroid · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well I'm also a source, please quote me as saying 88 is, "not quite half" of their employees. There. Now it is cast as fact and not even the trolls can dispute it.

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  3. Pr0n!! by Renraku · · Score: 1, Funny

    Imagine it! No more long pr0n downloads..just leave your laptop in your briefcase under the table for a few hours while you discuss 'business'. The pr0n is downloaded, you have a raise, what could be better?!

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