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...like the Internet in the mid-'90s," Stalter says. "Remember when everything was free? You put it in, then you ask yourself how you're going to make money." His idea is eventually to flip Spokane's HotZone to a pay service. He will enlist local businesses to sell prepaid Internet-access cards to people wandering through the HotZone. But Stalter might also recall how scores of well-intentioned dotcoms went bust in the late 1990s when they tried to get consumers to pay for what they were used to getting for free...
Will people actually pay for wi-fi? Can Vivato pull money out of thin air? Maybe not with prepaid cards, but, as Stalter says, the technology is way ahead of the applications, and over time alternative revenue sources are going to come crawling out of the woodwork. I thought of one myself, when I got back from Spokane. Parking in my neighborhood in Brooklyn, N.Y., is so tight, it took 45 minutes of circling the block before I found a space. I spent that time doing a thought experiment: What if Vivato lit up my neighborhood with wi-fi? Then...
When you received your crimson-inked acceptance letter and checked yes on the prepaid postcard, you relinquished your right to be modest about your college, at least to people who would kill to trade lives with you. The aura surrounding Harvard students throughout the world is yours to wield as you please. This aura will grant you instant respect from Aachen to Zanzibar. Wield it wisely, and don’t ruin it for others. Downplaying your Harvard credentials anywhere in the world will only reduce Harvard’s prestige and ruin any respect you’ve built...
...Madrid melting pot of North African, Chinese and Indian immigrants, Zougam ran a locutorio, one of the popular shops where you can make cheap phone calls abroad. The owner of another locutorio says Zougam was an expert in "liberating" phones--altering handsets sold cheaply by service providers to take prepaid SIM, or internal identity, cards. Among Zougam's customers was Yarkas. According to the November 2001 indictment against Yarkas, police tapping his cell phone heard him tell other contacts that he was in "Jamal's telephone shop." In September 2001 Zougam called Yarkas to say he had just returned...
...Spanish citizens of Indian origin were also questioned by the police. According to a Spanish government official, at least two and possibly all four of the Indians ran a shop in Madrid where they sold--not always legally--prepaid SIM cards. Spanish defense analyst Rafael Bardaji suggests they may have been unwitting collaborators. "Perhaps the poor chaps were only the people who prepared the illegal phones," he says. "The question is, to whom did they sell the phones...