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Re:Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public ho... by lucaspiller on Sunday June 15, 2014 @03:56AM (#7894714)
I had BT broadband a few years ago and we had this then. There were actually thee hotspots: mine, one called "BT Openzone" and one called "BT Fon". When they launched this in 2007 they had 3,000,000 customers [0], which I think they automatically opted in.

It was a good idea, but I never found it useful. It was only on residential broadband, and I never found myself hanging out in residential areas (if I went to a friends house they would just give me their wifi password).

[0] http://www.btfon.com/images/media/common/btfonLaunch041007.p...

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Re:Comcast turns 50,000 paying customer homes into public ho... by slipstream- on Sunday June 15, 2014 @05:05AM (#7894827)
I was once away for a while where the only access I had was to one of these. I ended up partially bypassing the paywall after a couple of hours of poking around.
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