Interesting ,move here
and in one of the lesser regulated sections of the connectivity market.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/5116960.stmA Spanish firm is to sell subsidised routers as part of a plan to turn domestic wi-fi networks into public hotspots.
Fon will sell wi-fi routers, which allow people to surf the net wirelessly, for $5 (£2.75).
The company, which has financial backing from Google and Skype, aims to create public wi-fi networks street by street across the US and Europe.
"Wi-fi is universal in cities, but access isn't," said Juergen Urbanski.
In exchange for receiving a router, users must agree to share their wireless connections with other Fon users for 12 months, the company said.
Users register their router with Fon via a PC which then lets other people access their wi-fi network safely - if they can pick up the signals from outside their homes.
Mr Urbanski said Fon was aiming to have 50,000 working hotspots worldwide by September, 150,000 by year-end and one million hotspots by the end of 2007.
To date, 54,000 people worldwide have signed up to become "foneros," up from 3,000 in February, according to the company.
A interesting way here of creating a second internet perhaps ?
Of course this activity will not happen overnight and for many users access to other countries will have to be via the traditional carriers,
but an interesting development all the same.
