{"id":168,"date":"2002-08-06T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-06T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/uncategorised\/independent_wireless_providers.html"},"modified":"2006-10-15T19:47:25","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T00:47:25","slug":"independent_wireless_providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/computers\/independent_wireless_providers.html","title":{"rendered":"Canadian &ldquo;mom &amp; pop&rdquo; ISPs go wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While high-speed wireless access in Toronto <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0110738\/2002\/08\/02.html#a33\" title=\"ian stevens' weblog entry for 2002\/08\/02\">might not be so great now<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hornbell.com\/\" title=\"Clark Hornbell's weblog\">Clark Hornbell<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/radiocomments.userland.com\/comments?u=110738&#038;p=33&#038;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0110738%2F2002%2F08%2F02.html%23a33\" title=\"Comments for ian stevens' weblog entry of 2002\/08\/02\">claims<\/a> that we&#8217;re leaps and bounds ahead of Vancouver, however.) it seems like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/front\/RTGAM\/20020802\/gtspeedhp\/Front\/homeBN\/breakingnews\">it could quickly get better<\/a>. The rumours of the death of &#8220;mom and pop&#8221; ISPs have been greatly exaggerated. Unable to afford the cost of competing with the big boys in the cable and ADSL space, independent Canadian ISPs are tackling the wireless market. Some of the Toronto-area players include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwithoutwire.com\/\" title=\"WorldWithoutWire website\">WorldWithoutWire<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.storm.ca\/\" title=\"Storm Internet Services website\">Storm Internet Services<\/a>. The prices are reasonable, too: $40\/mo for personal use, although you&#8217;ll need a $400 antenna. If you could share your wireless access between your home computer and your wireless PDA, that would be great. I won&#8217;t hold my breath, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While high-speed wireless access in Toronto <a href=\"http:\/\/radio.weblogs.com\/0110738\/2002\/08\/02.html#a33\" title=\"ian stevens' weblog entry for 2002\/08\/02\">might not be so great now<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hornbell.com\/\" title=\"Clark Hornbell's weblog\">Clark Hornbell<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/radiocomments.userland.com\/comments?u=110738&#038;p=33&#038;link=http%3A%2F%2Fradio.weblogs.com%2F0110738%2F2002%2F08%2F02.html%23a33\" title=\"Comments for ian stevens' weblog entry of 2002\/08\/02\">claims<\/a> that we&#8217;re leaps and bounds ahead of Vancouver, however.) it seems like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globeandmail.com\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/front\/RTGAM\/20020802\/gtspeedhp\/Front\/homeBN\/breakingnews\">it could quickly get better<\/a>. The rumours&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a class=\"read_more\" href=\"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/computers\/independent_wireless_providers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Continue reading &ldquo;Canadian &ldquo;mom &amp; pop&rdquo; ISPs go wireless&rdquo;\"><span>Read more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crazedmonkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}