On Tuesday 29 August 2006 17:43, Trevor Warren wrote:
Do you think this is a feasible idea?. The technicalities can be worked out for sure but the economics are a real suspect especially in a country like india where the density of laptops is 1:1000 and low enough for innovative ideas like this to fail to take off.
Don't get me wrong....am playing devil's advocate. You indeed have a good idea but something that would find better use not in trains/busses but rather at public places/cafes. Ofcourse, then why not just go on and use an AP. For that matter check out the wifi cafe's like CCD/Barrista, how many joints do you see having pple hooked over to the internet over coffee.
Agreed but then again such people who can afford to travel with a laptop and _need_ an internet connection on the move won't be traveling in regular or even cool cabs. And this also brings the whole bandwidth pricing issue as well as the feasibility as to what actually does the cab driver get after considering the various costs (maintenence, bandwidth, access etc...?) Is it truly going to be profitable?