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But what about non-free hotspots? For example, captive portals are commonly used in hospitality to generate revenue. There needs to be a way to associate the de
by chasefox 12y ago
But what about non-free hotspots? For example, captive portals are commonly used in hospitality to generate revenue. There needs to be a way to associate the device with a user for billing purposes. Captive portals provide this mechanism while making it easy for guest devices to join the network.
Passpoint appears to provide a bypass for devices with a pre-existing, approved carrier; it does not appear to address the foreign/unknown device dilemma -- how to easily allow the unknown device onto the network and collect revenue from it.
- acdha 12y agoIt's not clear but the documents do specifically mention the ability to send people to login / signup pages. I'm pretty sure that's not being ignored so much as being buried in marketing/carrier-speak.
- chasefox 12y agoso.... a captive portal again. to clarify, I'm not defending what gogo did to SSL. That's wrong and horrible. but captive portals had nothing to do with it. edit: my reading of passpoint is that it provides a way for mobile devices to join wifi networks without making the user go through the process of selecting the proper SSID. Instead, the mobile device sees information about the network and joins automatically. but once the device is on the network, passpoint is complete and if the network is captive portal'd, the device will then have to visit the login page to proceed.