Freedom
Freedom
What does this wireless technology represent? FREEDOM! No longer do I "Haveto" plug in to a wall jack and limit my movements to how far my cord/chain will let me move. There are costs and limitations however. Since it costs money to set up a "hot spot" that investmant needs to be recaptured.
A case in point, while waiting to get on my train at Union Station in Toronto, I had a choice of 3 "hot spots" to login through. 2 of them asked me for money up front, the third did not. Of course I went with the choice of not paying. I managed to access my email and do some work which otherwise would have been wasted time.
There are several reasons why I did not pay for the service.
1) I don't pay for a service if I can get it for free(I'm cheap)
2) One option was to pay a $34.00 subscription for a month, but I will not be back in Toronto, so that would have been wasted money.
3)The time it would have taken me to signup for the service would have taken all the time I had to use.
I feel a model such as the second cup Access Points that offer advertising would work much better in the situation I was in. I would be willing to look at a few ads in order to get the service. The login is simple and now Second Cup has me somewhere in their database as a customer,capturing my name and email address.
Hotels are going wireless. If I wanted to, I could have plugged in through my emergency dial-up account (interhop has a local Toronto number as well as local numbers all over Ontario) and I would have to pay the 95 cent fee for making a local call. It would have been a slower connection and the bottleneck of going through the modem would have slowed down the work I was doing. With a wireless account as part of the hotel's "Perks" I would always choose to stay at a hotel that offers it over one that did not.
Freedom has a price but it does not have to be too high.
Michael J. Kaer
michaelkaer@yahoo.ca
http://www.kaerenterprises.com
http://www.kaerenterprises.com/3Q4U.htm
http://kaerpackage.blogspot.com
http://www.dollarempire.biz/2?ref=791
http://www.mikesworms.com (under construction)
What does this wireless technology represent? FREEDOM! No longer do I "Haveto" plug in to a wall jack and limit my movements to how far my cord/chain will let me move. There are costs and limitations however. Since it costs money to set up a "hot spot" that investmant needs to be recaptured.
A case in point, while waiting to get on my train at Union Station in Toronto, I had a choice of 3 "hot spots" to login through. 2 of them asked me for money up front, the third did not. Of course I went with the choice of not paying. I managed to access my email and do some work which otherwise would have been wasted time.
There are several reasons why I did not pay for the service.
1) I don't pay for a service if I can get it for free(I'm cheap)
2) One option was to pay a $34.00 subscription for a month, but I will not be back in Toronto, so that would have been wasted money.
3)The time it would have taken me to signup for the service would have taken all the time I had to use.
I feel a model such as the second cup Access Points that offer advertising would work much better in the situation I was in. I would be willing to look at a few ads in order to get the service. The login is simple and now Second Cup has me somewhere in their database as a customer,capturing my name and email address.
Hotels are going wireless. If I wanted to, I could have plugged in through my emergency dial-up account (interhop has a local Toronto number as well as local numbers all over Ontario) and I would have to pay the 95 cent fee for making a local call. It would have been a slower connection and the bottleneck of going through the modem would have slowed down the work I was doing. With a wireless account as part of the hotel's "Perks" I would always choose to stay at a hotel that offers it over one that did not.
Freedom has a price but it does not have to be too high.
Michael J. Kaer
michaelkaer@yahoo.ca
http://www.kaerenterprises.com
http://www.kaerenterprises.com/3Q4U.htm
http://kaerpackage.blogspot.com
http://www.dollarempire.biz/2?ref=791
http://www.mikesworms.com (under construction)
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