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Comcast tests free Wi-Fi
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If you are on cable
Mon Feb 02 2009, 13:25
P2P THROTTLER Comcast is testing a free wireless Internet service for its cable subscribers.
The service which is being offered in parts of New Jersey will be 1.5 Megabits per second, comparable to DSL at home. Users will be asked for the username and password they use for Comcast's Internet service before they can access Wi-Fi. µ
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I would bet everything that once Comcast destroys the DSL business the wifi suddenly wont be so "free" anymore. Kind of like a crack dealer.......
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If We The People would figure out that we can organize the same service ourselves for free, with wifi and a few backbones, we would not need Comcast. Perhaps Comcast realized what the basic problem with its business model is, finally, and is trying to get the people hooked on its service, like drug addicts.
The first paragraph says "for its cable subscribers" but later it says the user would have to enter their Comcast username/password, which implies they'd need to have broadband access (well, except I don't need a password to use broadband access, so none of this makes sense). If I can pay $10 a month for basic cable and get WiFi for free, that's great. If I have to pay $43 a month for broadband, just to get free slower WiFi, who cares?
Something important happened in New Jersey!
That's almost as amazing as if the US government actually came up with an effective way to get people off of welfare.
amazingly insightful article