Comments on: Still A Little Mystified By FON http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/10/12/still-a-little-mystified-by-fon/ Russell Buckley and Carlo Longino on mobile technology. Tue, 22 May 2012 09:13:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Dean Bubley http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/10/12/still-a-little-mystified-by-fon/comment-page-1/#comment-116863 Dean Bubley Sun, 14 Oct 2007 10:27:06 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/10/12/still-a-little-mystified-by-fon/#comment-116863 Carlo Don't forget that the UK's cities tend to be pretty densely-populated and have many mixed-use areas. In most parts of central London you can see multiple BT Broadband WiFi SSIDs. I can see 5 right now. Sure, I can't see this being useful when you're at a country house hotel set in 200 acres of parkland, but if I'm sitting in Starbucks or Caffe Nero on Baker Street then I'd definitely be in BT/Fon range. One of the challenges BT might find is that there are *so many* of its SSIDs on a given London street that a dualmode phone may end up handing over 30 times while you're walking along, on a call. Not sure that level of signalling traffic scales very well. Dean Carlo

Don’t forget that the UK’s cities tend to be pretty densely-populated and have many mixed-use areas. In most parts of central London you can see multiple BT Broadband WiFi SSIDs. I can see 5 right now.

Sure, I can’t see this being useful when you’re at a country house hotel set in 200 acres of parkland, but if I’m sitting in Starbucks or Caffe Nero on Baker Street then I’d definitely be in BT/Fon range.

One of the challenges BT might find is that there are *so many* of its SSIDs on a given London street that a dualmode phone may end up handing over 30 times while you’re walking along, on a call. Not sure that level of signalling traffic scales very well.

Dean

]]> By: Anders Borg http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/10/12/still-a-little-mystified-by-fon/comment-page-1/#comment-116860 Anders Borg Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:30:16 +0000 http://mobhappy.com/blog1/2007/10/12/still-a-little-mystified-by-fon/#comment-116860 I came to a similar conclusion in "Will Wi-Fi hot spots ever get any coverage?". I came to a similar conclusion in “Will Wi-Fi hot spots ever get any coverage?”.

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