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Re: [gaia] Comcast is turning your home router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot

Dirk Kutscher <Dirk.Kutscher@neclab.eu> Wed, 18 June 2014 07:43 UTC

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To: Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk>, gaia <gaia@irtf.org>
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Yes, that's right. FON is partnering with operators in different countries already:

https://www.btfon.com/
http://www.telekom.com/media/consumer-products/180150

Dirk

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gaia [mailto:gaia-bounces@irtf.org] On Behalf Of Arjuna Sathiaseelan
> Sent: Dienstag, 17. Juni 2014 21:15
> To: gaia
> Subject: [gaia] Comcast is turning your home router into a public Wi-Fi
> hotspot
> 
> We have FON here in Europe --
> 
> We are Cambridge took that further with PAWS
> (http://publicaccesswifi.org/) - offering free Internet access using the same
> approach (with all the tech and economics thrown in  to make it sustainable)
> 
> Now Comcast follows
> :http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/16/technology/security/comcast-wifi-
> hotspot/index.html?iid=SF_T_Lead
> 
> Arjuna
> --
> Arjuna Sathiaseelan | http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~as2330/
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