Free WiFi for the East Village, NYC August 7, 2006
FON is rolling out a pilot program in New York's East Village giving away FON routers for free. The goal is to come up with 25.000 new FON hotspots throughout NYC. You can sign-up for your free router (or at least check whether you are eligible) via www.wifi4ny.com.
According to some sources, both Time Warner (cable) and Verizon (DSL) will work together with FON and allow sharing WiFi. FON is also partnering with Andrew Rasiej and NYCWireless.com for this project.
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But Jean Kaplan, WiFi analyst at IDC Corp. in Framingham, is skeptical about whether the company’s business model will work in the United States, where free and low-cost WiFi is not hard to find.
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Phil Santoro, a spokesman for broadband provider Verizon Communications, refused to confirm or deny there are any discussions between Verizon’s broadband executives and FON. Santoro said Verizon’s terms of service forbid customers from reselling residential broadband service.
Eventually everyone will want to choose who they share their WiFi with and the ISP’s will have to accept this. It’s hard to detect sharing anyway when most devices are behind a NAT. Our free software is a better approach than flashing a router’s firmware or necessitating using a PC as a gateway machine.