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My ISP has done something similar for years. They give you a router which doubles as a "wifi hotspot", where anyone with a valid ISP login can use that network
by nickjj 7y ago
My ISP has done something similar for years. They give you a router which doubles as a "wifi hotspot", where anyone with a valid ISP login can use that network at no cost beyond their regular internet bill. It just becomes a part of what you get with their service.
This doesn't quite work out as well as Google Fi because they don't have the other half of the equation which is to jump to a mobile provider when there's no valid wifi connection. My area has 2 choices for broadband and even with a majority of customers in this area there's still large gaps to the point where if I walk around the neighborhood there's tons upon tons of dead zones.
- AnthonyMouse 7y ago> This doesn't quite work out as well as Google Fi because they don't have the other half of the equation which is to jump to a mobile provider when there's no valid wifi connection. That's the key though. Even if you have 97% coverage without it, if that other 3% could be when your car breaks down on the side of the road, people aren't going to be willing to switch off their existing wireless service which does work there. But add existing wireless carriers as metered data which costs nothing unless you use it, and you satisfy that blocking factor and get the customer.