FON
Many people blogged this before but somehow I didn’t pay attention to it initially. Having looked now, it’s kinda interesting. FON: WiFi Revolution. Basically grassroots WiFi aggregation where you share your wifi and in return, can use other peoples’.
I’m not sure it will really fly because of the following reasons. (Although they managed to get a cool domain and name and some nice marketing going on — you get to be a “fonero” .)
- “Bill” and “Linus” names don’t really echo with the non-techies, they have this “geek coolness” to them which non-geeks may fail to appreciate
- at this time too limited support and too techy, you need to be able to flash your router.
- I’m not sure what are the legal implications of other people doing stuff on your wifi. From the uplink service provider’s POV, you’re still accountable for everything happening on your connection, so if someone does something nasty and it is traced back to you, then the burden may be on you to further trace down the person accountable. Not sure if FON’s “accounting” supports that (being able to trace back to original user if need be) — if not, it should.
Nevertheless, they claim they’re present in Spain, France, Sweden. In Estonia where there’s a humongous number of free or paid wifi hotspots it would certainly make sense in urban areas.
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