Time Warner broadband customers will be allowed to host wireless hot spots

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Time Warner broadband customers will be allowed to host wireless hot spots

04-23-2007, 09:15 AM,

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Time Warner broadband customers will be allowed to host wireless hot spots

Quote:In a big win for a little Wi-Fi start-up called Fon, Time Warner Cable Inc. will let its residential broadband customers turn their connections into public wireless hot spots, a practice shunned by most U.S. Internet service providers.

For Fon, which has forged similar agreements with Internet service providers across Europe, the deal will boost its credibility with U.S. consumers.

For Time Warner Cable, which has 6.6 million broadband subscribers, the move could help protect the company from an exodus as free or cheap municipal wireless service becomes more readily available...

full article: http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-...technology

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