Selling Wi-Fi presents serious challenges
Alas, wireless Internet may not be the technology sector’s salvation after all.
Small companies, some publicly traded, are burning cash trying to turn Wi-Fi into viable business. Some have already shut down.
Faster than you can say “industry bubble,” skeptics are asking whether wireless Internet connections will become similar to the wired Internet of the late 1990s — hot but rarely profitable.
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