On 1/25/22 20:06, Michael Thomas wrote:
That's what I've been trying to figure out as well. The use case of
seamless handoff across large regions is fairly niche imo. Sure that
was the original motivation for cell phones, but smartphones are about
as statically located as laptops and nobody is rushing to get their
laptops seamless handoff capabilites. That handoff capability comes at
a tremendous cost in both spectrum and coverage.
Since everybody has their own wifi it seems that federating all of
them for pretty good coverage by a provider and charging a nominal fee
to manage it would suit a lot of people needs. It doesn't need
expensive spectrum and the real estate is "free". Basically a
federation of "guestnets".
Yes - WiFi Offload is more attractive to MNO's than building out more
base stations, I believe. The problem is that it's easier if they could
do this without also having to roll out a large scale wi-fi network,
themselves.
So they have to focus on one, and I've tended to find wi-fi deployments
by MNO's take more of a back seat, as it's about reaching as many
customers as possible, even at the lowest common denominator of performance.
Mark.
