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Saturday, January 04, 2003
Testing the Wireless Waters With WiFi - Yuki Noguchi, Washington Post
The typical domains of wireless networks are college campuses, major airports, high-end hotels, trendy coffee shops and tech-heavy neighborhoods. But Forrest C. "Woody" Wheat sees a new horizon for this increasingly popular technology: the near-shore waters of the American coast. Wheat, whose Reston-based firm has been selling high-speed wireless service for three months after a year of building a network, said he hopes to expand it for boaters using "every little estuary" along the U.S. coast. Wheat sees maritime service as his way to carve a niche in the market for the technology known as WiFi, a system that makes high-speed Internet connections from a laptop as portable as a call from a cell phone.
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