Re: iPhone line begins 7 days before launch!

SMS wrote:

> Dutch wrote:
>> Oxford wrote:
>> 
>>> DTC <me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Oxford wrote:
>>>>> Truephone! so, say goodbye to the monopoly of Cell Phones!!!! 
>>>>  From the Truphone website: "Low cost calls wherever you are"
>>>>
>>>> Hmmm.....I wonder where this all over WiFi they are imagining is?
>>> they, like me, live in more advanced areas... free wifi is everywhere.
>> 
>> Thanks for confirming that you don't live in the real world.
>> 
>> I'm posting this as my wife drives our motorhome on I-90 at 65 MPH. Try
>> that with your "wifi is everywhere"... 
> 
> Alas, free Wi-Fi is shrinking too. They just shut down the Metro-Fi 
> system in my area last week. Metro-Fi could be a case study in bad 
> marketing and unrealistic expectations.

I'm not familiar with Metro-Fi. Was it an ad based service?
 
> If you know where to go, you can still find free Wi-Fi networks at many 
> restaurants and public areas, but the dream of ubiquitous free Wi-Fi is 
> dead for now.

Other than at campgrounds that offer it for free, I rarely use WiFi
except from my own secured routers, but I have heard some rumblings
among the RV set about there being fewer locations available to us. I
don't know if that's because of locations shutting down, or because
they're going to paid subscription models though. 

-- 
Dutch
Sprint/Motorola RAZR V3m
tethered to PCLinuxOS 2008