Wayport's New Model Works All Around
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Wayport's CEO Says New Model on the
Horizon
Wayport's CEO Says New Model on the
Horizon
04/14/2004 07:51 PMWayport's CEO Dave Vucina said that the company will unveil a new
business model for roaming partners in the near future that will be
"the voice of reason": In an interview today with hotspot and managed
services provider Wayport, CEO Dave Vucina explained that the
McDonald's deal announced this week to unwire all 13,000 of the
chain's U.S. locations will rewrite the basis of roaming with existing
and new partners. While Vucina was short on specifics about the
upcoming change in roaming terms, he did say that it would be unique
and encourage more companies to roam with Wayport. "The way we have
put our program together it will be good for all parties with some
balance," he said. "One of the things you see when we release our
model, is that you'll see some new direction and some new ways to
package the service." Vucina said that by the end of the year, between
the McDonald's stores and The UPS Store outlets that they are building
as a managed services provider for telecommunications giant SBC,
Wayport would install from 8,000 to 9,000 new locations. (The UPS
Store has over 3,000 locations today, and expects to have over 5,000
by the time all the stores have Wi-Fi service installed.) The
McDonald's partnership came about through trials among Wayport, Cometa
Networks, and Toshiba over the last year. Vucina said that nearly 450
locations in large and small cities alike were tried, from Manhattan
to Boise, Idaho. He said, "Part of the exercise of the pilot was to
gather data on what people were thinking about this connectivity
experience." They were able to garner statistics on average session,
food purchases made, what percentage came to McDonald's specifically
for the Wi-Fi service, and other factors. Food sales were more
important than earlier reports may indicate. "At the end of the day
for McDonald's, it's about selling hamburgers," Vucina said.
McDonald's sees 24 million customers per day through one of their
13,000 U.S. locations, or over 1,800 people on average per store,
Vucina said. "That's about as much traffic as you'll get anywhere."
Statistics provided last year by a McDonald's executive at the Wi-Fi
Planet conference showed that about 75 percent of customers used the
drive-through or ordered take-away food from the counter, which would
leave an average of over 450 customers eating in-store each day.
Still, McDonald's stores have peak times during meals....
SanDisk Wi-Fi SD Card Works with
Palm--One Model, At Least
SanDisk Wi-Fi SD Card Works with
Palm--One Model, At Least
06/18/2004 07:00 PMLong-delayed drivers for the Palm OS to work with SanDisk's Wi-Fi SD
card arrive with support for a single model: Tom's Networking reports
that the discontinued Zire71 model is the only that will work with a
version of the SD card scheduled to ship by early July. The newer
Zire72 has a driver problem that Palm hasn't acknowledged privately or
publicly. [link via Engadget]...
SBC Is Wayport's Partner?
SBC Is Wayport's Partner?
06/07/2004 01:03 AMNY Times slips that SBC is Wayport's first reseller partner for Wi-Fi
World: In a by-the-numbers piece questioning whether free Wi-Fi
hotspots were challenging for-fee hotspots, Matt Richtel doesn't
mention Wayport by name, focusing instead on T-Mobile. We've heard
quite a bit of this before, but usually involving more sweeping free
service, such as that offered by hotel chains (wired and Wi-Fi), or
the model promoted by Austin Wireless City or NewburyOpen.net. The
writer says that Cometa went out of business because it was not
providing a suitable return to investors. I disagree. Cometa stated,
and several sources confirmed for me, that it was unable to raise
additional funds from new investors. AT&T and IBM, cited as part
of the financing, never invested serious money. Richtel gets to the
heart of it when he quotes a Wi-Fi user at a free location saying, he
would consider subscribing to a Wi-Fi plan if there were a provider
that offered universal access to hot spots everywhere. Bingo. I'll
reiterate my Yogi Berraism: in the future, unlimited national Wi-Fi
will be free and it will cost $20 per month. Either you'll pay nothing
and deal with any of the potential downsides of relying on service
that's based on the returns in that model, or you (or more likely,
your employer) will pay a flat $20 per month for unlimited access
across all U.S. networks. But the key hidden fact in this story is in
the last few paragraphs, when Richtel tips that SBC, which has hired
Wayport to unwire its The UPS Store partner locations and manage them,
will be Wayport's first Wi-Fi World customer, even though Wayport and
Wi-Fi World aren't mentioned by name. In the Wi-Fi World model,
Wayport is reselling access to McDonald's locations on a fixed rate
per month. The article says SBC will offer unlimited service for
$19.95 per month, but will ultimately discount it significantly to
existing customers. It's unclear whether that rate includes both
SBC-managed locations and McDonald's, but it's likely that it's
both....
Yes, SBC is Wayport's First Wi-Fi World
Partner
Yes, SBC is Wayport's First Wi-Fi World
Partner
06/07/2004 09:13 AMThe official press release comes a few hours later than the New York
Times story which had a side mention of the deal: Wayport's Wi-Fi
World model gains immediate traction with the partnership of SBC,
which offers phone and data service across 13 states. In the Wi-Fi
World model (explained here), Wayport charges a fixed monthly fee per
location in their retail venue network to each reseller. SBC hired
Wayport as a managed services provider to build out their own unique
FreedomLink network. This deal puts SBC front and foremost as the
first to resell under Wi-Fi World, but also the first to participate
on the back-end of Wi-Fi World, too, as a network provider. Wayport
said during its briefing on Wi-Fi World that network providers who
chose to participate in marketing opportunities would pay Wayport a
monthly fee, reducing the cost of network service. So with Wayport
working in several different ways with SBC, most of which are
non-exclusive or at least non-restrictive against future reseller and
network partnerships, they've kept their per-location costs extremely
low in SBC's territory. Wayport's CEO said two weeks ago that with a
single reseller and with McDonald's arrangement to also pay fixed
per-location management fees, they were already at break-even for the
network's cost. SBC's resale of Wayport's network in incremental to
The UPS Store partnership, so that FreedomLink customers will get both
McDonald's and UPS Store venues for the $19.95 per month unlimited
usage fee. The press release reiterates that SBC DSL subscribers will
receive a "significant" discount on this price later this year. In a
Reuters story about this deal, SBC notes that they are selling 3,000
Wi-Fi gateways per day as part of their promotion to home users....
Podcast: On Site with Wayport's CEO in
Austin
Podcast: On Site with Wayport's CEO in
Austin
03/19/2005 02:24 AM
During my
visit to Austin this week, I stopped by Wayport and recorded this
interview: David Vucina, CEO of Wayport, the leading
hotspot infrastructure builder, reseller network, and managed services
operator in the industry, lead me on a tour around their new facility
in Austin, Texas. I have to say it's quite impressive. I wondered
aloud why all the functions of the company were in one place:
warehouse, hotspot assembly, customer service, network operation
system, system management, and administration. But after taking the
tour, it was pretty clear: the company is more like a big IT
(information technology) department for hire than, for instance, an
Internet service provider.
There are times in this virtual world when it's useful seeing
firsthand how things are done. For instance, I was able to see the
assembly facility Wayport is using to prep the equipment that goes
into the field. They have a separate area for assembling custom
McDonald's boxes because they're putting so many of them together. The
assembly manager said that they had shipped over 400 hotspot boxes of
all kinds in a recent day. They're typically handling site surveys for
25 to 100 sites per week, and that isn't slacking off.
A customer service operator gave me a tour through their CRM software
that lets them slice and dice problems in a variety of ways, such as
all previous problems that hotel room or how that particular user
authenticated onto their network. This is typical stuff for any robust
customer service/technical support operation, but the tools are quite
nice and the Tier 2 reps have access to very level technical details
about the access point or access port.
In the 30-minute audio interview I recorded with Vucina, we talked
largely about the hotspot world, Wayport's position in it, and what
the company will do when the U.S. becomes largely unwired. We also
spoke about the nature of Wi-Fi in complement to 3G cellular data.
You can download the interview as a plain MP3
file [15 MB] or as a ZIP
archive of that file [11 MB]
Wayport's Wi-Fi World Switches from
Per-Connection to Per-Venue Fees
Wayport's Wi-Fi World Switches from
Per-Connection to Per-Venue Fees
05/24/2004 11:09 PMWayport will announce Tuesday a significant change in how hotspot
builders charge hotspot resellers and aggregators: In a press and
analyst briefing on Monday, Wayport disclosed Wi-Fi World, their name
for a pricing model for partnering with retail chain stores and
reselling access to aggregators and others for a fixed monthly fee per
location instead of a per-connection rate. Resellers choose their own
pricing for subscribers and do not share that revenue with Wayport. In
a clear swipe at T-Mobile's arrangement with Starbucks, Borders, and
Kinko's, in which, according to many sources, the cell company bears
the cost of the network and operations and shares revenue with its
venues, Wayport's CEO Dave Vucina said, that a retail partnership
"shouldn't be about how much they can get for free form the provider
but should be more about their core business and driving enormous
traffic for their core business." The current model for venue
operators that resell access, such as Wayport, Surf and Sip, and
Concourse, is to charge a small, fixed fee for each daily connection
to the reseller, such as iPass, Boingo, Sprint PCS, or Verizon
Wireless. While Wayport doesn't disclose those fees, they are
estimated to be from 25 cents to $1.00 per connection. The provider
typically pays the venue about half of that connection fee, or
subtracts that fee from monthly recurring billing, depending on how
much of the installation costs the venue has paid and other factors.
Vucina said that in that model, the impetus has been on the hotspot
provider or retail venue to drive traffic, as the reseller had little
upside and very little cost to recover. But with Wi-Fi World,
resellers that could include phone companies, cell operators, cable
companies, service aggregators, Internet service providers, and firms
outside telecom entirely--any firm with a large mobile customer
base--can retain all subscriber fees regardless of usage by their
customers. In Wayport's Wi-Fi World, resellers will pay $32 per month
on average for each of the McDonald's restaurants. Wayport expects to
have about 8,000 McDonald's restaurants in its next within 12 months,
which would result in fees of roughly $250,000 per reseller per month
or $3,000,000 per year. These fees could increase over time as usage
increases, Vucina said, while venues with less traffic might have
lower per location charges. Wireless analyst John Yunker with Byte
Level Research, who was briefed on the announcement, said "flat
fees...
Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on)
Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on)
12/23/2003 11:30 PMMark Bourne says: So
my wife Elizabeth and I are googling up possibilities for our long
trip to England next year. Checking out London sites and so on. An
acquaintance suggested staying for a few days in the Cotswolds, a
scenic Middle Earthy region west of London. That's how we found a
page about the town of Bourton.
You just gotta love this text, which blends Ye Olde Scepter'd Isle
with sci-fi gee-wizardry:
You will probably have noticed that when you take a branch
from certain trees (some conifers for example), the branch looks like
a miniature version of the tree, and when you break a piece off the
branch, that looks like a tree too. Mathematicians call this property
self-similarity.
Bourton has a wonderful example of self-similarity: it contains a
1/10 scale model of itself. Because the 1/10 scale model is a complete
model of the town, it must contain a model of itself, and it does, a
1/100th. scale model of Bourton, and because the 1/100th. scale model
is also a complete model of Bourton, it must also contain a 1/1000th.
scale model of the scale model of the scale model of Bourton.
And it does. It is only a matter of time before a team of
nano-technicians turn up in the town to etch a sub-micron scale model
of Bourton on a silicon wafer, complete with mill, waterwheel, and a
highly imaginative interpretation of the River Windrush as a stream of
electrons.
Link
Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model
Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model
09/10/2002 09:44 AM"It's now PPC or nothing, $50 credit offered to those who swap."
Model Run
Model Run
06/24/2004 05:05 AMNow everything is start!
Sometimes Nothing Works
Sometimes Nothing Works
06/18/2004 11:43 PMShark Tank: When this IT executive calls with a dead hard disk, tech
pilot fish spots a chance to try his collection of disk-resurrection
tricks. ...
More Than One New ACT! in the Works
More Than One New ACT! in the Works
03/14/2003 01:28 AMOver the course of the last six months, Best Software has launched six
new versions of
ACT!, the small-business contact management application. Some of them
are the typical product upgrades and releases expected of every
vendor. Others, such as ACT! for Web, ACT! for PocketPC and ACT! for
Palm, are designed to move the vendor into new markets.
And it works
And it works
03/13/2003 10:15 AMOh yes, you better believe it baby! It works! The prototype of my
multimediabox is up and running, and I...
CSS Box Model Demo
CSS Box Model Demo
05/27/2004 03:13 PMBasic CSS Box Model
Demo: A fantastic interactive, Flash version of the CSS box model.
Very well done, and very handy for someone who doesn't understand it.
Based on
this version.
Click here to comment on this entry
// hicksdesign :: 3D CSS Box Model
// hicksdesign :: 3D CSS Box Model
05/21/2004 02:16 AM// hicksdesign :: 3D CSS Box
Model
hicksdesign.co.uk/journal/2004/05/3d_css_box_model
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It's Not a Model: It's One-to-One Scale
It's Not a Model: It's One-to-One Scale
11/20/2003 12:40 AMThis sounds like the biggest toy train set in the world: Burlington
Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. use Wi-Fi to remotely control their
engines in trainyards. You can't make this stuff up. Less amusing and
more interesting, the company wants to look into opening up their
private microwave network to public cellular and data communications
as a way to provide service in underserved areas....
Sun tries new pricing model
Sun tries new pricing model
06/01/2004 06:40 PMTest-TAP-Model-0.02
Test-TAP-Model-0.02
04/15/2005 08:19 PMModel ChemLab 3.02
Model ChemLab 3.02
09/09/2004 02:36 PMAn interactive Chemistry Lab Simulation.
Web Zen: Paper Model Zen
Web Zen: Paper Model Zen
06/18/2004 10:59 AM
papermoon |
origami |
paper plate origami |
design a paper box |
boxbots |
papercraft |
ivor the engine |
paper toys |
nasa paper models |
video game
characters |
paper arcades |
flying pig.
Links to
web zen home,
web zen store,
(
Thanks, Frank).
How to model a bishop (XML.org)
How to model a bishop (XML.org)
08/12/2002 11:50 AMNew PowerMac Model?
New PowerMac Model?
06/01/2004 10:33 AM
As noted in several places on the internet (Thread, Thread), there
appears to be a PowerMac model listed in Mac OS X 10.3.4.
The new machine is lis...
Sql Object Model
Sql Object Model
12/29/2004 04:02 PMVesion 0.1 Released
FC Now: Crunch Model
FC Now: Crunch Model
03/22/2005 05:12 PMDuring my speech at SDA Bocconi in Milan last week, I cited Theresa
Amabile's creativity research and the idea of a "time-pressure
hangover" -- a decline in innovation because of strict deadlines.
Evan Robinson's essay Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work...
IRAQ THE MODEL
IRAQ THE MODEL
11/18/2003 07:49 PMYou Owe Us an Apology .. Iraq The Model .. message ..
Omar
iraqthemodel.blogspot.com/2003_11_01_iraqthemodel_archive.html#
106908590931527369
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Build Your Own Model B-52
Build Your Own Model B-52
05/28/2004 09:18 PMRSS Ads - The Business Model for RSS
RSS Ads - The Business Model for RSS
01/26/2004 02:19 AMRSS Ads - The Business Model for RSS .. RSSAds ..
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rssads.com
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Shader Model 3.0
Shader Model 3.0
04/26/2004 09:06 AMMuch of XHTML 2.0 works already
Much of XHTML 2.0 works already
07/23/2004 07:55 PMA few days ago the W3C released the HTML and XHTML FAQ. I skimmed over
it and saw no interesting things. So that was that.
Just now I saw a dramatic increase of visitors to this site. I was a
bit surprised because there hasn't been any news on my site lately,
and I had seen no new interesting referrers. ?
Claranet to buy VIA NET.WORKS
Claranet to buy VIA NET.WORKS
04/12/2005 07:35 AMLays down big depost
How AirTunes Works
How AirTunes Works
06/07/2004 06:48 PMiTunes doe sthe heavy lifting. You're still using iTunes as your
musical interface, and you've got to keep that Mac on and iTunes open
in order to keep the music playing.
By Jason Snell, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)
TopStyle 3.12 in the Works
TopStyle 3.12 in the Works
03/14/2005 06:24 PMI hadn't planned to release a new version of TopStyle so soon after
coming out with versi
on 3.11, but I've decided that one is necessary to resolve a few
remaining bugs (including this
one).
It will be a few weeks before I'm ready to post a beta of TopStyle
3.12, so it's too early for me to state exactly what will be
in the new version. But among the other issues I'll address is the
oft-reported problem of Mozilla "swallowing" the focus away from
TopStyle's editor (describe
d here). Although this bug is actually in Mozilla rather than in
TopStyle itself, I'm assuming that it will never be corrected in
Mozilla (after all, the
Bugzilla report of this problem has existed for almost two years),
so I'm going to code a workaro
und in TopStyle.
The beta will be available only to existing TopStyle customers, and
will be announced here when it's ready.
Stanley Still Works
Stanley Still Works
07/27/2004 01:13 PMThis old economy tool company thrives, announcing yet another dividend
increase.
- Painkiller works
- Painkiller works
06/01/2004 09:47 PMComputer Times Asia Jun 2 2004 2:25AM GMT
How It Works: Internet ads
How It Works: Internet ads
05/18/2004 11:39 AMCNN May 18 2004 3:24PM GMT
"The bookmarklet works for me "
"The bookmarklet works for me "
05/12/2004 09:38 AMWi-Fi BlackBerry in Works
Wi-Fi BlackBerry in Works
12/09/2003 02:44 AMExtreme Tech Dec 9 2003 1:41AM ET
Well, Just Listen To This... It Really
Works
Well, Just Listen To This... It Really
Works
08/06/2004 10:21 PMWhat is there to write about when the software and the device just
plug in and start working? By Paul Brislen, New Zeland Herald (via
MyAppleMenu)
psychoanalysis works
psychoanalysis works
11/14/2003 05:46 AMPsychothérapie par courrier et psychothérapie par courrier i
Well, the air conditioner works...
Well, the air conditioner works...
08/28/2004 08:52 PMDuring my home inspection they tested the air conditioner by turning
it on for about 10 seconds and then shutting it off. The inspectors
explained that they can't do much more than that in "cold" weather. So
I've always been wondering if it actually worked. Today I found out.
It was 90 degrees upstairs when I decided to shut the windows and kick
on the air conditioner, set at 72 degrees. I'm happy to report that
the place is cooling...
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