Wi-Fi Woes
Toronto-based venture capitalist Rick Segal - a.k.a. The Post Money Value - has some gripes this morning about accessing “free” Wi-Fi at Cora's, a local breakfast spot. He criticizes the access provider - Sesame Networks - for its user-unfriendly process to log on to the free service. Among his woes is some fine print the user may be charged for a SMS message that Sesame sends out to verify people trying to access its network. In the end, Rick talks about getting a Sierra Wireless card, and signing up for a wireless data plan. His comments are a nice complement to a column in the National Post last week and blog posting about why the business model for Wi-Fi is disappearing. If 3G and Wi-Max technology live up to the hype, Wi-Fi may soon become marginalized into just an inter-household networking technology.
