What do you mean "Is it working? Or is it an Internet bubble?"?
These questions don't seem to be an "or" situation. Answer is
my marina is that, Yes it is working, and Yes it is a bubble.
Yes, yachtsmen (whatever that means) are interested.
Yes, they really are using it.

Doug


"Michel Pineau" wrote in message
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eyAOL (GJ Walsh) wrote in message
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Has anyone heard of companies offering Broadband for boats?

At the very moment around the world companies are offerering :
1°) Satellite broad band, world wide... fairly expensive, say 1$ to $9
per minute depending on the speed say from 2.4 kbps to 64 kbps

2°) All around the world, many local area wireless connexion using
Wireless hot spots on places like marinas and moorings areas: it's
either free or cheap
Please check the list underneath...

I've got a question: all those marinas are offering internet
connexion...
Is it working? Or is it a new internet "bubble"?
Are yachtsmen interested?
Are they really using those facilities?



a) Marinas : have a look :
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2003/7/prweb71274.htm (Spain)
http://www.bbxpress.net/ (Washington - BC )
http://wifinetnews.com/archives/002083.html (Washington State and B.C.
marinas get Wi-Fi: An entrepreneur has unwired 21 marinas. Service can
be reached in some places 2 miles out of the marina, and costs $6.95
per day or $39.95 per month. Better yet, the company says they have
1,000 people signed up, although from the article it's hard to tell
whether that means "sessions and subscriptions" or just
subscriptions.)
http://www.teleseawireless.net/produ...eseagold.shtml (US : West &
East coast - Honolulu...)
http://www.ezgoal.com/hotspots/wireless/c.asp?cid=7 (US)
http://www.firstboat.com/news/wireless.html(Miami-based Global
Wireless Services Inc. has outfitted about 30 marinas across the
country with WLAN technology and plans to have about 250 marinas in
its portfolio by year-end.)
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/134910_broadband14.html(Pacific
Northwest, stretching from Coal Harbour Marina in Vancouver, B.C., to
the Elliott Bay Marina in Seattle)
http://www.etherport.net/control-servlet?cmd=locations (Spain :
Baleares)
There is about 18 big marinas fitted in England.
http://www.intersync.com/en/index.htm (England - France)
http://www.seabyte.com/marina.htm (UK)

http://www.marinabranchee.net/marina...888f93c2 0e66
(Canada : Quebec)
...
Know some others?

b) mooring areas :
"However, there is a (lovely mooring) place called Desolation Island
where they also installed repeaters and that has changed the nature of
the place. "
http://blogger.iftf.org/place/000098.html

Any other places like?


Thanks for your interest.

Michel Pineau
France - Brittany
http://bateaupassion.free.fr (sorry its in French)