Printing At Your Hotspot
Well, here's a company taking a different strategy to try to make money from WiFi hotspots. Instead of trying to set up and run hotspots, they're going to provide free printers at the hotspot and charge users $0.99/page to print from them. The price seems a little high, but probably will get people who are desperate to print. Of course, this business model is completely dependent on commercial hotspots catching on - something that's still very much in question.
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