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

Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan@cl.cam.ac.uk> Tue, 17 June 2014 19:15 UTC

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Subject: [gaia] Comcast is turning your home router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot
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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
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Arjuna Sathiaseelan | http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~as2330/