Generosity of BT home hub owners

Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home hubs
which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that all these
people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of their
bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's profits.

I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?

http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...4-409DCA94F1FA

"Gaius" <bin@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:4b71946f$0$2533$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home hubs which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume
> that all these people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of their bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards
> BT's profits.
>
> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>
> http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...4-409DCA94F1FA

Far fewer than know about Phorm, and they are few and far between.
Where are the investigative journalists?
FTPing their copy from their cars on suburban streets perhaps?

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Gaius wrote:
> Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home hubs
> which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that all these
> people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of their
> bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's profits.
>
> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>
> http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...4-409DCA94F1FA
>

Same with Skype, most people don't know that it eats up their bandwidth
while they are logged on.

Gaius wrote:
> Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home hubs
> which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that all these
> people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of their
> bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's profits.
>
> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>
> http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...4-409DCA94F1FA
>
where does it say that this is anythingg to do with residential users?

On 09/02/2010 18:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> Gaius wrote:
>> Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home
>> hubs which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that
>> all these people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of
>> their bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's profits.
>>
>> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>>
>> http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...4-409DCA94F1FA
>>
> where does it say that this is anythingg to do with residential users?

Note the references to BT FON - which is residential. (My neighbour got
opted in and wasn't best pleased when she found out).

On 09/02/2010 18:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

>> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>>
>> http://www.btplc.com/News...
>>
> where does it say that this is anythingg to do with residential users?

"The million-strong Wi-Fi estate comprises hotspots from the BT FON
Wi-Fi Community".

http://www.bt.com/wifi

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"Gaius" <bin@127.0.0.1> wrote in message news:4b71b166$0$2484$(E-Mail Removed)...
> On 09/02/2010 18:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>> Gaius wrote:
>>> Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home
>>> hubs which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that
>>> all these people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of
>>> their bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's profits.
>>>
>>> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>>>
>>> http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/S...4-409DCA94F1FA
>>>
>> where does it say that this is anythingg to do with residential users?

____Precisely__the__point_____.

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On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:29:09 +0000, Ian Pawson wrote:

> Gaius wrote:
>> Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home
>> hubs which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that all
>> these people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some of
>> their bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's profits.
>>
>> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>>
>> http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/Showarticle.cfm?
ArticleID=F8943CDC-38A1-434F-B924-409DCA94F1FA
>>
>>
> Same with Skype, most people don't know that it eats up their bandwidth
> while they are logged on.

and iPlayer.



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On Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:56:47 +0000, Graham. wrote:

> "Gaius" <bin@127.0.0.1> wrote in message
> news:4b71b166$0$2484$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On 09/02/2010 18:58, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>> Gaius wrote:
>>>> Thanks all round to the 860,000 owners of the newer variety of home
>>>> hubs which have become Openzone and BT FON hot spots. I assume that
>>>> all these people feel the happy glow of generosity in donating some
>>>> of their bandwidth and domestic electricity bill towards BT's
>>>> profits.
>>>>
>>>> I'm sure that all these good people ARE aware of this ?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/Showarticle.cfm?
ArticleID=F8943CDC-38A1-434F-B924-409DCA94F1FA
>>>>
>>> where does it say that this is anythingg to do with residential users?
>
> ____Precisely__the__point_____.

Not.



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On 09/02/2010 20:22, Bob Eager wrote:
>> Same with Skype, most people don't know that it eats up their bandwidth
>> while they are logged on.

Spotify and Joost as well.

> and iPlayer.

Nope. Doesn't use P2P (any more).

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