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MobileStar was a wireless Internet service provider which first gained notoriety in deploying Wi-Fi Internet access points in Starbucks coffee shops and American Airlines Admiral Club locations across the United States. A will o the wisp is a ghostly, pale light sometimes seen at night hovering and sliding around in swamps and graveyards. ... For other meanings of the name Starbuck, see Starbuck. ... American Airlines Boeing 757 American Airlines and American Eagle aircraft at San Juan Note: For the arenas named after this company, see American Airlines Arena (Miami, Florida), or American Airlines Center (Dallas, Texas). ...


It ceased operation in October 2001, but its bankrupt assets and contracts were bought by Voicestream Wireless and by February 2002, was operating as VoiceStream Global Wireless. It is now known as the T-Mobile Hotspot network. T-Mobile logo T-Mobile is a multinational mobile phone operator. ...


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Starbucks wireless network a sweet deal for MobileStar By Carolyn Duffy Marsan, Network World, June 25, 2001.


MobileStar shutting down network By Ben Charny CNET News.com, October 11, 2001.


VoiceStream Catches A Falling MobileStar by Bob Liu Executive Editor of internetnews.com, November 13, 2001.


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MobileStar Wireless Internet (581 words)
MobileStar service is often cheaper than dial-up, when you consider the significant toll costs involved in dial-up.
MobileStar has sites in 18 of the top 20 major U.S. metropolitan areas and almost 60% of the top 50.
MobileStar supports both FH (or Open Air) and DS (or 802.11b) WLAN technology.
The Fallout from MobileStar (1398 words)
In fact, while the MobileStar postmortem continues to be debated, one thing is for certain -- the future of the IEEE 802.11 technology depends largely on how wireless local area networks (WLAN) are accepted within the enterprise, analysts concurred.
MobileStar appears to have a business model very similar to that of Wayport, from Austin, Texas.
MobileStar's downfall is also attributed to the tough task of trying to be all things to all people.
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