A New Technology Bubble in Wi-Fi?
Yesterday's San Francisco Chronicle story covers the potential Wi-Fi bubble that's continuing to build up:
...some analysts and investors are now questioning whether one key market for Wi-Fi, public Net access through hot spots at airports, hotels and coffee shops, is rapidly becoming a dot-com-style bubble waiting to burst, with service providers throwing far more money at expanding services than consumer demand will warrant anytime soon.
Some 4,500 Wi-Fi hot spots -- areas of up to 300 feet in radius within which subscribers with laptop and handheld computers can get broadband-speed Net service -- have been deployed across the United States, mainly in the last two years, according to Pyramid Research of Cambridge, Mass.