Rodent Regatta

interested in Wi-Fi appears in the April 28, 2003 issue of Barron’s. A quote from John Patrick is pertinent:

”Telephony is just another Internet application,” says John Patrick, a consultant and author who until his retirement a year ago was IBM’s chief Internet guru. ”The telecom industry thinks of the Internet as one of the things you can do with telephony services, but it is exactly the opposite. Telephony is one of the many things you can do with the Internet.”

Kevin Werbach is also quoted several times.

”It bothers me and frightens me when the entire American economy is looking to one very modest new technology to save it,” he says. ”That’s not a very good thing. 802.11 is a modest technology; it’s wireless ethernet, that’s all it is. It’s not a panacea.”