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South Carolina will set up a commission to handle decisions that will make high-speed wireless Internet connections available.
The Federal Communications Commission is reportedly considering a free wireless Internet with restrictions for its next round of spectrum auctions.
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San Jose International Airport now provides free WiFi. It’s available in all public areas of both Terminal A and Terminal C. Later, free Wi-Fi will be included in the new Terminal B and North Concourse.
SJC is the first airport in the Bay Area to offer air passengers free WiFi, reports KCBS. The service was launched Friday morning. The goal of the service is to make San Jose the choice for Silicon Valley business air passengers. The WiFi is being paid for through online advertising and sponsorships.
“The revenue we get from advertising and sponsors will pay for the actual operation and installation,” explained airport spokesman David Vossbrink. “It has the potential for giving a little extra revenue over time.” They are partnering with Beaverton, Ore.-based Airport Marketing Income and AnchorFree, a Sunnyvale-based company, providing the advertising network (below).
The network, called SJCfreewifi, will compete with the airport’s fee-based Wi-Fi networks T-Mobile and Wayport. The airport’s cut of the profits from those networks is $139,000 a year, said communications director David Vossbrink, and that sum will decline if passengers opt to use the free service.
The airport spent $90,000 for the hardware, folding the Wi-Fi installation into the current airport renovation. The annual cost for broadband will be $41,000. The airport gets about 30,000 passengers each day, so officials estimate at least 1,000 people a day will use the free Wi-Fi.
Let’s estimate some (very gross) income:
If the 1000 daily users (X 350 days/yr) = 350,000 users/year, then perhaps they view (collectively) 1 million advertising impressions. If each of the 1 million impressions cost 10 cents each, then it might generate annual income of $100K/year.
Viewed another way, $100/day equals $36,500/year. So revenue would need to be approximately $250/day, or around $60-$80/day for 3-4 advertisers. That seems high to me. Perhaps half that fee seems more realistic.
Perhaps that’s why Microsoft’s Sideguide (left), with constantly changing ads and with context and historically aware insertion, was preferred by MetroFi.
It still seems like a legitimate model to me. If not for an entire city, then for downtown cores or high traffic areas. Newspapers ought to move right now.
Mobile WiMAX is more cost/effective — and could make it work. This year, baby. This year.
"The demo was very impressive in terms of showing off yet again a completely new user interface than what we've seen previously," said Avi Greengart, a wireless analyst at Current Analysis. "There are some nice innovations, such as a bar at the top which could be expanded to give you control over the notifications. You can touch the notification bar and jump to whatever you were being notified about."
Speeding Up Smartphone Innovation
The Open Handset Alliance promises Android will deliver a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications. The alliance's 34 companies first released an Android software development kit last November.
The alliance is betting Android will better position developers, wireless operators and handset manufacturers to bring to market innovative new products faster and at a much lower cost. The end result, the group pledged, will be a mobile platform that makes way for wireless operators and manufacturers to give their customers better, more personal and more flexible mobile experiences.
One of the platform innovations that could live up to that promise is a new way to unlock phones by drawing a specific shape on the touchscreen. That would do away with the need to enter a password. Android also makes room for bookmarks for favorite Web sites on the device's home page. And a compass tool automatically roams with the phone's user.
"For all practical purposes they showed a live view of the mapping engine tied to what direction you are actually standing in, and that was really cool," Greengart said....
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