http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/ Engadget Comments for Time Warner partners with FON, customers to get free WiFi http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/
Think A LA CARTE pricing for starters.]]>Apr 23rd 2007 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/Cut the same deal, please! ]]>Apr 23rd 2007 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/Apr 23rd 2007 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/
This could be the best move TWC could have made. Or any company for that matter.

Whole TOWNS will suddenly become WIFI enabled. Business will likely jump on the bandwagon, and then you'll have free WIFI just about everywhere. The TWC coverage map will begin dictating way points on my next trip.

Mark my words, this will change things...]]>Apr 23rd 2007 1:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/May 2nd 2007 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/Apr 23rd 2007 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/Apr 23rd 2007 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/Each FON router sends out two signels. 1 is locked with a 10 digit code found on the bottom of the router itself (aka MYPLACE SSN) and a second one that is free to the FON world (aka FON_US SSN)
both have the same signal strength in my experience (works 3 houses down the lane in my case). I'm happy with it and unlike a certain netgear router I have yet to see it overheat at all even after a few 48 hour p2p runs (Yay Fedora Core)

Anyways to sum it up "akijikan" it's not crap, just a good router]]>Apr 23rd 2007 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/
Also, if you are worried about people using the router, paying the two bucks, doing bad stuff, and leaving the blame to you... I am sure TWC and FON have thought about this, and I am sure there is a way for TWC to be able to figure that out...]]>Apr 23rd 2007 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/]]>Apr 23rd 2007 6:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://billkosloskymd.typepad.com/wirelessdoc/2007/04/fon_wireless_ro.html]]>Apr 23rd 2007 6:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/



With nearly 60,000 FON community members in the U.S. alone, FON is the largest WiFi network in the United States. Hotspot providers are FON community members (called Foneros) who share their unused bandwidth via a FON router in exchange for free WiFi access when roaming through any other FON access point.

http://news.taume.com/Technology/Tech-Deals/Time-Warner-Cable-Partners-With-FON--To-Enables-Free-WiFi-Access-1046]]>Apr 23rd 2007 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/http://www.engadget.com/2007/04/23/time-warner-partners-with-fon-customers-to-get-free-wifi/ It seems to me that Time Warner wants to co-op, or at least stave off, the growth of free municipal wireless that Google has already offered to San Francisco (http://tinyurl.com/ba9sk) and probably has threatened to expand if the telecom/cable Co's don't take Net Neutrality seriously. Never mind the other, ad-supported, forms of free wireless internet (Whatsup, 'M2Z' : http://tinyurl.com/2rby3w ; Whatsup, 'Anacapa' : http://tinyurl.com/22697z) that also threaten the traditional business model of internet/communications delivery.
I mean, if you can't beat 'em, buy 'em off, right?


Oh yea, don't forget WiMax as a viable skip over cable/dsl service. (Whatsup, ClearWire - just wikipedia 'Clearwire').
It seems as though this multitude of new-model ISP start-ups will fight the traditional telcos in a style akin to Gulliver's Travels: tying down a sleeping giant with a hundred little ropes.

Also, Google was one of the first companies to give significant venture-capital to FON, and still does. I wonder if Time Warner knows this...Perhaps they do, and FON is a small flashpoint, a proxy war if you will, in the growing cold war between content providers and telcos first begun by net neutrality.
Maybe I'm being a little too melodramatic over the delivery of data packets. Sorry for the long post.
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