British Telecom has struck a deal with Spanish wifi company FON that will create the world’s largest wifi community–a community built, essentially, by individuals and not corporations. Here’s how it works: customers receive a wireless router for their broadband connection at home, on which they open up a separate secure channel for use, free of charge, by other members who require it. There are already something like 200,000 FON hotspots around the world, and this project is bound to increase that number substantially, given that there are already half a million people using FON.
So maybe those frustrating days of trying to access wifi and finding 30 impenetrable networks are about to be history.
