Jeff Pulver's Free World Dialup Pushing Free Wi-Fi Hot Spots
Business & Technology Editors
MELVILLE, New York - May 1, 2003 - Jeff Pulver, CEO, pulver.com announced
a campaign promoting deployment of free Wi-Fi hot spots toward making the
rapidly expanding Free World Dialup (FWD) community mobile
"The 20,000 people joining of the Free World Dialup community in the last
six months can use voice enabled laptops and PDA's to access Free World
Dialup when not at home," noted Jeff Pulver. "The Free World Dialup Wi-Fi
Hot Spot Campaign seeks to increase the number of public locations with free
access to the Internet. Charging for Wi-Fi access represents the largest
barrier to deployment and usage as it creates unnecessary cost, complexity,
and ease of use obstacles. The potential for customer traffic easily
justifies deploying free Wi-Fi Internet access. Wi-Fi access to the Internet
costs so little it can get incorporated with other overhead type expenses
like electricity and background music."
The FWD Wi-Fi Hot Spot Campaign will provide a free online directory
listing for all free Wi-Fi enabled venues. FWD members can nominate
locations they want to see become free Wi-Fi hot spots via
hotspots@pulver.com. Discussion list FWD-M will host community discussion
of issues relating to mobile Free World Dialup.
Join the FWD Mobile mailing list -
http://listserv.pulver.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?SUBED1=fwd-m&A=1
.
The FWD Team will work with vendors to reduce cost and complexity barriers
to hot spot deployment, make laptops and handhelds more VoIP friendly, and
encourage member usage through application development and promotions.
"Awareness and education represent the biggest obstacle to ubiquitous
Wi-Fi hotspots," said Daniel Berninger, Managing Director, pulver.com and
lead organizer of the campaign. "Our campaign seeks to expand the reach
community based free network projects beyond cities to reach the FWD members
spread out in 100 countries around the world. The FWD community can work
together in support of free public Internet access not unlike the projects
already active in Portland, Seattle, London, and New York.
Jeff Pulver launched Free World Dialup on November 11, 2002. FWD adds over
2000 new members per week and growth continues to accelerate. Free World
Dialup members can make no cost calls between each other. Anyone with a
broadband connection and an Internet Protocol (IP) telephone can take
advantage of the service. FWD assigns a unique number for the user's
equipment and provides the mechanism for calls between members. Free World
Dialup does not use traditional telephone numbers or connect directly to the
Public Switched Telephone Network.
About pulver.com
Jeff Pulver founded pulver.com at the end of 1994. In addition to
producing the highly successful VON conferences, pulver.com is engaged in
many activities that promote the growth of communication technology. The
pulver.com website (http://www.pulver.com) is a key source of information
for those in the IP Communications industry and The Pulver Report
(http://pulver.com/reports) has over 65,000 subscribers for whom it is a
primary source of news and information on the latest developments in
emerging net technologies. Mr. Pulver is the founder of: The VON Coalition,
pulverRadio, RevUp Records and co-founder of: Vonage and WHP Wireless.
CONTACT: pulver.com
SOURCE: pulver.com
Daniel Berninger, 410/279-1220
dan@pulver.com
INDUSTRY KEYWORD: INTERNET TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRODUCT