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Startup Idea: A Better ISP

3 pointsby kartickvover 5 years ago

2 comments

ktpsnsover 5 years ago
One of the biggest ISPs in Germany, Telekom, offers such a model (&quot;WLAN TO GO&quot;) since more then 10yrs. It is an opt-in agreement that you can use other people&#x27;s APs if you also open yours. Many other ISPs offer the same service, for instance Unitymedia.<p>Furthermore, there are popular nonprofits with similar aims, for instance freifunk.net (despite this is not an ISP).<p>Something I would find very interesting is opening eduroam.org for other organizations&#x2F;private people. It is the worldwide dominating &quot;shared WiFi&quot; approach in the scientific domain.
Nextgridover 5 years ago
Charging per the gigabyte is a greedy, bullshit idea that needs to die. It is the whole opposite of &quot;better&quot;.<p>This idea of shared Wi-Fi is done by pretty much every ISP out there and nobody uses it for very good reason: it&#x27;s just not reliable nor performant enough. No matter whether you use Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 50, you&#x27;re only getting good speeds with line of sight, low interference environments and good hardware.