Rodent Regatta

Yesterday’s Wall Street Journal featured a page-one article (subscription may be required) about the threat to cellular from WiFi.

Just as the next generation of IP-only fiber networks will progressively displace the legacy phone companies, WiFi has the potential to unseat cellular technologies. This is consistent with something Ray Ozzie said back in September.

So, there it is. Legacy teleco’s with their centrally-planned networks and 40-year depreciation schedules threatened by next-generation fiber optics. Cellular threatened by WiFi. When bandwidth gets to the curb or the wireless access point, movies by subscription, music by subscription and every other type of information will be moving via IP packets.