Re: Re: Free WiFi - BT joins FON

["Stuart Grimshaw" <stuart.grimshaw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I'd be carefull about using Fon, not that they're dodgy or anything,
but their cutomer support leaves a bit to be desired.

See http://stubblog.wordpress.com/category/fon/
for my experience with them.

On 10/4/07, Stephen Wing <stephen@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> This is interesting news - BT Total Broadband customers can sign up
> via the website, with no obvious payment required, which seems to
> imply the hardware they already have supports FON.  This will gain
> those customers access to lots of additional free wifi access point,
> and equally, FON users will benefit from a lot more additional wifi
> access points from these new BT FON members.  A non BT Total Broadband
> customer can buy a FON router, and then sign up to BT FON (although to
> buy a FON router, you have to have already signed up to FON, so I'm
> not sure why you would need to sign up to BT FON specifically).
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> One strange thing, the FON and BT FON communities seem slightly
> separate at the moment, so if you go to the FON Maps, you only get FON
> members, whereas if you go to the BT FON Maps, you only get BT FON
> members - a combined map showing all possible access points would be
nice.
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> I see the FAQs also mention BT Openzone customers will be able to use
> the BT FON access points, although with little additional detail
> (unfortunately there is no mention of a reciprocal arrangement
> allowing BT FON members access to Openzone).
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> A BT Total Broadband member will allocate upto 512k of his broadband
> connection to be available for other members, so for many, this should
> not affect them a lot.
>
> Steve
> (All info summarized from the www.btfon.com website - I could be wrong
> though)
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