BT and FON to offer free wireless WiFi nationwide

[Sunil Sood]

BT and FON have joined forces to create a Wi-Fi community that allows
its members to connect for free in thousands of places around the UK
and the world.

Any BT Internet/Broadband customer can join for free and those with BT
Home Hubs can also be set up a HotSpot for other customers.

Anyone doing this seems to get:

- free access to other BT customers WiFi hotspots
- free access to BT Openzone hotspots
- free access to any FON Hotspot anywhere in the world.

Note: that is someone else uses your connection as a hotspot, it
doesn't come out of your own usage allowance and contains security so
they are 100% separated from your own home network

Anyone opting in will be sent a firmware upgrade to their Home Hub (if
they have one) from Monday 8th October.

More details including FAQs and a forum at http://www.btfon.com/

Regards
Sunil

[dualdflipflop]

Gavin wrote:
> You only get Free wifi when out if you offer it at home
> If you don't share you have to pay for access when out

Oh that's ass... I understand the importance of "play fair" but the
forcing nature of that comment irks me a little.

[Mike]

In message <bnrkg3pr7idbf3tk0...@4ax.com>
at 17:53:12 on Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Gavin <ga...@mindless.com> wrote

>You only get Free wifi when out if you offer it at home
>If you don't share you have to pay for access when out
>

This was on last week's Working Lunch on BBC2. The bit that you share
out uses separate bandwidth to your own. Not sure how that's going to
work - maybe there is some software to limit the bandwidth of the FON
signal.

Also the person using your bandwidth has to be identifiable to BT.
--
Mike News

[Sunil Sood]

On 8 Oct, 18:53, Gavin <ga...@mindless.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:12:21 -0700, Sunil Sood

>
> <n...@soods.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
> >Any BT Internet/Broadband customer can join for free and those with BT
> >Home Hubs can also be set up a HotSpot for other customers.
>

> Fon't line is slightly different.. They say

>
> You only get Free wifi when out if you offer it at home
> If you don't share you have to pay for access when out

I think there is a difference here between a FON user and a BTFON one.

With FON you have to share WiFI.

However, if you are a BT Broadband customer who doesn't have or use a
Home Hub then you are still allowed to use other Hotspots even if you
are not sharing yourself.

Regards
Sunil