BT and FON to offer free wireless WiFi nationwide

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

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 03:12:21 -0700, Sunil Sood
<(E-Mail Removed)> 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

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.

In message <(E-Mail Removed)>
at 17:53:12 on Mon, 8 Oct 2007, Gavin <(E-Mail Removed)> 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

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

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 18:52:21 -0700, Sunil Sood
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>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.
>

No I'm a fon user, and I asked that, after all the point of Fon is to
share wifi, BT are just branding it.

Fon's line is A BT Fon user will only get free wifi if he shares his
wifi at home. If he doesn't share he'll have to buy a day pass to use
it. Thats at odds with the BTFAQ and the Fon team are trying to
clarify it (you'd have thought they would have this ironed out before
launch)

Personally I'm not happy with it unless that is the case, I have a fon
router so I can use wifi when out, if the BT deal means a BT Fon user
can use my wifi but I can't use his it defeats the point of me having
FON router online.