On 11.12.14 21:22 , Randy Bush wrote:
note that free.fr does this in france. we both provide and use it
there. works out quite well.
Another data point: several cable broadband providers do this in NL. My
personal experience is with Ziggo. Imho they do it right:
- opt-in, at least when I joined as an early adopter
- you do get roaming privileges yourself if you opt-in
- full WPA authentication
- each customer has their individual authentication info
- back-haul is via a separate DOCSIS connection
- no leakage
- no bandwidth loss on your subscription
- no liability for what roamers do
This to me is acceptable. In practice I have turned it off by default on
my phone and I rarely roam as 3G/4G charges are also reasonable. I found
it to be annoying when quality varies as it roams from 3G to Wifi and
Wifi to Wifi. But I do manually turn it on occasionally when stationary
and doing a lot of data.
Daniel