THE INTERNET AMENITY

摘要

Before I started writing this column for Technology Review, I spent eight months as the "chief scientist" for an Internet startup called Broadband2Wireless. (In fact, I was the only scientist.) Our company tried to build a high-speed wireless Internet service that could be accessed in cities throughout the United States, South America, Europe and Asia. We were going to do it using unlicensed portions of the spectrum and with wireless network equipment that employed a hot new standard called 802.11. And we were going to charge no more than $50 a month.