Hotspot Battles

• Only 11 channels in North America

• Competition with and between fee services

• • Providers have set up fee based wireless access
  • Cybercafes have set up wireless services
  • Competing individuals have used directional antennas to broadcast into competing locations

• Organizations have set up free hot spots

• • Companies seeking to set up services for a fee have come into conflict with community hotspots
  • Some hot-spots in airports have become free

• WiFi spectrum is shared with Amateur Radio

• • Amateurs use much more power
  • Accidental cross access and cross interference have occurred