[Telecentres] WanderPod Brings Wi-Fi Anywhere

[Andy Carvin]

 From Wired News... -ac

WanderPod Brings Wi-Fi Anywhere

Dennis Stacey had one of the best seats at the Ansari X Prize launches, 
right alongside the taxiway where Burt Rutan's SpaceShipOne rolled out 
to make history earlier this month. But the Montreal entrepreneur was at 
California's Mojave Airport not to catch a space launch, but to prove 
that he can bring internet access to people wherever they happen to be.

Stacey, 30, is CEO of WanderPort Wireless, a 2-year-old firm that's 
established itself as a provider of Wi-Fi hot spots in business, 
boutique and luxury hotels in Canada and the United States. Now Stacey 
and his 15-person firm want to take wireless connectivity where it's 
never gone before.

WanderPort sent a small crew to Mojave to unveil the WanderPod, a 
rolling Wi-Fi hot spot consisting of a small trailer tricked out with a 
diesel generator, an antenna, juiced-up access-point hardware and a 
satellite dish that serves as a broadband data link. The target market: 
anyone who needs to get on the net from remote locations or places where 
infrastructure has been knocked out.

What Stacey has in mind is a place like Florida, in the wake of its 
recent series of hurricanes, or even Sudan, where the United Nations and 
aid groups are responding to the refugee crisis in Darfur. In other 
words, places well beyond conventional net access.

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http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,65283,00.html

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Andy Carvin
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