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In Australia the leading telco is making all the phone booths (at least in sydney where I live) into wifi hotspots for its internet customers - clever - pay for
by daniel_iversen 10y ago
In Australia the leading telco is making all the phone booths (at least in sydney where I live) into wifi hotspots for its internet customers - clever - pay for your home internet and have wifi wherever you are - maybe nice in areas where there is not good mobile reception, for mobile workers etc
- hueving 10y agoComcast does this with their customers' cable modems (every cable modem broadcasts a Comcast network that any Comcast customer can use). It's somewhat evil and clever because it encourages you to use Comcast over and equivalent service because of the Internet access you get while out and about. They've given choosing an ISP a network effect.
- noer 10y agoYou can turn that hotspot off on your own device: https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/disable-xfinity-wifi-home-hotspot/ https://www.xfinity.com/support/internet/disable-xfinity-wif...
- derefr 10y agoIt'd certainly be nicer if, like a phone booth, they let people who aren't members of said network connect for five minutes by putting a quarter into a machine, so that they could then use said wi-fi to, say, make a (VoIP) call.
- throwanem 10y agoThat'd be an expensive machine! Take a look some time at the amount of design, machining, and just plain material that goes into pay phones, in the cause of defending against theft from their coin boxes - they're called "fortress phones" for good reason.
- thejosh 10y agoYou basically can, once you connect you can just pay using card . also integrates with FON so if you're from overseas you can use that.
- ClassyJacket 10y agoThe ones that are connected to fibre are great. Free 200Mbit connection! But then there's the ADSL ones...