Article: Bandwidth From Strangers Challenges AT&T, Verizon

This looks VERY interesting to me. I would love to see this, or something
like it, come to pass.

-PM

Bandwidth From Strangers Challenges AT&T, Verizon
<http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-31/bandwidth-from-strangers-challenges-at-and-t-verizon>

Eyal Toledano, a 36-year-old master’s degree candidate at the MIT Media Lab
in Cambridge, Mass., has built an Android app, Air Mobs, which—were it ever
released—would allow you to sell wireless bandwidth to a stranger near you
in return for credits allowing you to buy bandwidth from another stranger in
the future. He used to serve as chief technology officer for Samsung Telecom
Research Israel and is not completely naive about the nature of America’s
wireless broadband market. Toledano is fairly certain, as am I, that his app
will not immediately please AT&T (T) or Verizon Wireless. (Verizon declined
to comment; AT&T has yet to respond.)

(Rest of article at link above.)

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Paul Miner

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Paul Miner wrote on [Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:39:23 -0600]:
> This looks VERY interesting to me. I would love to see this, or something
> like it, come to pass.
>
> -PM
>
> Bandwidth From Strangers Challenges AT&T, Verizon
> <http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-31/bandwidth-from-strangers-challenges-at-and-t-verizon>
>
> Eyal Toledano, a 36-year-old master’s degree candidate at the MIT Media Lab
> in Cambridge, Mass., has built an Android app, Air Mobs, which—were it ever
> released—would allow you to sell wireless bandwidth to a stranger near you
> in return for credits allowing you to buy bandwidth from another stranger in
> the future. He used to serve as chief technology officer for Samsung Telecom
> Research Israel and is not completely naive about the nature of America’s
> wireless broadband market. Toledano is fairly certain, as am I, that his app
> will not immediately please AT&T (T) or Verizon Wireless. (Verizon declined
> to comment; AT&T has yet to respond.)

Look at Freedompop, as well. An actual service

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 05:19:17 +0000 (UTC), Justin <[email protected]>
wrote:

>Paul Miner wrote on [Wed, 13 Feb 2013 20:39:23 -0600]:
>> This looks VERY interesting to me. I would love to see this, or something
>> like it, come to pass.
>>
>> -PM
>>
>> Bandwidth From Strangers Challenges AT&T, Verizon
>> <http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-31/bandwidth-from-strangers-challenges-at-and-t-verizon>
>>
>> Eyal Toledano, a 36-year-old master?s degree candidate at the MIT Media Lab
>> in Cambridge, Mass., has built an Android app, Air Mobs, which?were it ever
>> released?would allow you to sell wireless bandwidth to a stranger near you
>> in return for credits allowing you to buy bandwidth from another stranger in
>> the future. He used to serve as chief technology officer for Samsung Telecom
>> Research Israel and is not completely naive about the nature of America?s
>> wireless broadband market. Toledano is fairly certain, as am I, that his app
>> will not immediately please AT&T (T) or Verizon Wireless. (Verizon declined
>> to comment; AT&T has yet to respond.)
>
>Look at Freedompop, as well. An actual service

Looks very interesting. Thanks for the heads up.

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Paul Miner