Upcoming tests seek to predict whether Wi-Fi can survive cell companies’ using its frequency bands. (Like it says in that disclaimer over to the right, this post reflects the opinions of its author – not his law firm, its other lawyers, or its clients.) Wi-Fi may be one of the best ideas anybody ever had. When the technology was still expensive, 20 years ago, its main application was connecting servers to computers in the workplace and to cash registers in large retail stores. It still serves those purposes today … and more. Now, with costs greatly reduced, Wi-Fi is ubiquitous in homes, coffee shops, airports, hotels, car-repair waiting rooms – pretty much anywhere people might use a laptop or a tablet. Here in the CommLawBlog bunker, for example, we have good Wi-Fi service everywhere (except that dead spot behind the climbing wall). A long-range version provides Internet service to people who can’t easily connect to cable or DSL phone lines.…
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