CES - DAY 2 - Transcript - Hour 1, Segment 11

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Frank Hanzlik: Absolutely, today you know a lot of people have been using Wi-Fi primarily just for basic home networking, E-mail access, surfing the Internet but to a point when people start really starting to do really cool stuff you know moving video, moving music, you know pictures, etc. You have to have something with the horsepower of quality service. So we came out with something last fall called WMM, which stands for Wi-Fi Multimedia and there is a variety manufacturers around the floor that are showing this and that enables that video, that audio, that music do not get corrupted with other things that are going on.

David Lawrence: Right, one of the things that people call in all the time we have a lot people who listen on XM and Sirius and also listen on some of our superstations WGN in Chicago and whatnot are truck drivers. And they are constantly trying to decide between Verizon card or a Sprint card and Wi-Fi that could easily be used anywhere but not necessarily everywhere, whereas the phone company situation would be a fairly ubiquitous thing to do. Now things are changing on that front, aren*t they?

Frank Hanzlik: Yeah absolutely.

David Lawrence: Metro Wi-Fi and other, you talk about little bit about --

Frank Hanzlik: Yeah, you got cities like Philadelphia, they have been very very popular about trying to light up the metropolitan area. You have got a variety of cities that have basically looked at setting up Wi-Fi hotspots in downtown areas, its a part of urban development. People putting Wi-Fi in parks, so this is absolutely happening, it*s absolutely leaving the living room and its moving outside.

David Lawrence: Do you think that the days of paid Wi-Fi access are numbered. Should we be concerned about companies like T-Mobile, and Starbucks, and You know Barnes&Noble that actually are charging for access because eventually we are going to have these umbrellas over the metro areas.

Frank Hanzlik: Well at this point both models are coexisting you know it*s a variety of places where its free and those kinds of folks are basically saying, hey this is just part of delivering a good experience in year 2005. Exactly it*s like air conditioning was you know 20 years ago when people just kind of expect it now. So there is a variety of folks that are offering free services and we are all better because of that. And then there is other folks like the T-Mobile, there are more than others that are really focused at many of those kind of more demanding business travelers, etc. And you are paying a reasonable price for hopefully a great experience that as well.

David Lawrence: So to answer the question that comes up time and time again, can someone who moves around massively for a living, a sales person who travels all the time, a truck driver who is moving freight, even somebody who works for the airlines, would they be better off getting a connection with a cell phone company or getting a connection that*s Wi-Fi based and is there any conversions possible between those two?

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