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Billboards: Would-be Wi-Fi Competitors?
By Larry Hendrick | February 28, 2007
Since CBS isn’t in the IT industry, it’s difficult to imagine them implementing a plan of this proportion, but it adds to the conversation. There are many companies trying to determine how to implement a profitable program of wireless Internet.
Again, the problem with using 802.11x for this are many.
- limited distance
- fragile signals
- interference
- lack of speed
- public sector frequencies
- unreliability
And that’s just a very short list of what needs to be improved upon before this will work. As each of these problems get worked out, the process will become a live option, rather than the current pipe dream. I’m excited about the future of everywhere wireless connectivity, but only when it’s real.
Billboards: Would-be Wi-Fi Competitors?
And Roeding told me that CBS is considering turning billboards that are property of CBS Outdoor into Wi-Fi access points. If CBS does give this initiative a green light, the network could become the U.S.’s largest Wi-Fi service provider, Roeding says. After all, CBS’s billboards line many strip malls, highways, buildings all over the nation.
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