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Being Wireless: Viral Telecommunications

Posted by Hemos on from the but-what-about-frogger dept.

sh4na writes "3G is out before it is ever in... because, as Nicholas Negroponte puts it, the *real* next generation is the Wi-Fi "lily pads and frogs" concept. Wouldn't it be great?"

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  1. What am I missing? by JohnCub · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know I must be missing something here because if this really happens, who is getting paid? Companies need paid for their bandwidth and usage and one guy with a link to the net isn't going to feed the ISP's families.

    In a utopian society where everything is free and shared this would work great. But the ISP has to pay its employees and those employees have to pay their bills. If the ISP doesn't get paid the employee doesn't get paid and the employee doesn't get to pay his/her bills until they find a new job.

    It doesn't seem to make economic sense to me is all. Can someone explain how it could work, financially, for everyone?

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