Fon? Bullshit.

I was going to harp on about Fon's utterly pointless approach to providing what is sure to be an extremely patchy service by being a parasite atop other networks and breaking their TOS, but Techdirt beat me to it.

Previously: and , wherein I explain why Wi-Fi (meshed or otherwise) won't fly for this sort of thing. There are plenty of other examples scattered throughout the site.

And yeah, I'm . But like Jim Hughes put it, HSDPA is "... a little simpler than relying on 888,219 routers to be all working".

Still, the dual SSID feature Om Malik mentions is intriguing, and something I could have used back when we were designing Wi-Fi hotspot offering.

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