New report says many hot spots, teensy margins: IDG News writes about a report that indicates that although hot spot deployment should grow sigificantly, achieving that scale of rollout that I suspect is necessary to attract large numbers of subscribers, competition and other factors will squeeze margins so tight that hot spots infrastructure builders may have to reconsider current business models.
Of course, that's only the current builders who focus more on deals than long-term profitability, isn't it? Remind anyone of the dotcom days? Let's sign a deal to pay Yahoo tens of millions of dollars and then later figure out whether it was cost effective.