Amazon may soon provide wireless internet access

[ionbasa]

Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) has tested a new wireless network that would allow customers to connect its devices to the Internet, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The wireless network, which was tested in Cupertino, California, used spectrum controlled by satellite communications company Globalstar Inc. (GSAT), said the people who asked not to be identified because the test was private.

The trial underlines how Amazon, the world’s largest e-commerce company, is moving beyond being a Web destination and hardware maker and digging deeper into the underlying technology for how people connect to the Internet. That would let Amazon create a more comprehensive user experience, encompassing how consumers get online, what device they use to connect to the Web and what they do on the Internet.

 

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-23/amazon-is-said-to-have-tested-a-wireless-network.html

 

They would be essentially using what used to be a "satellite" frequency in order to deliver wireless internet access, although this wouldn't be WiFi per say because of the different frequencies involved. Do we need another wireless standard/ frequency with the advent of WiFi AC? Also I can see this as possibly rivalry Google's idea to provide WiFi from blimps.

 

Thoughts?

[M-ursu]

Is there anything that amazon wont do/provide?

[carolkarine]

they have 55 gallon barrels of lube in their store, so I'm gonna say no. they'll do anything.