WiFi — 802.11b, -a, and -g wireless networking — is the big Internet success story of this decade. It’s successful because it is simple, cheap, and unlicensed. And that lack of a required license is taking WiFi places nobody ever expected it to go. How could a local area networking technology, for example, compete with and even threaten such entrenched (and licensed) technologies as mobile and wired telephones and even broadband Internet?
Via [pbs.org]
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