[Wolves] BTfon - Can anyone make any sense of this announcement?

[chris procter]

I used to work for BT and I found them to be a decent enough company, if it hadn't been that I was based in Ipswich I might still be there today.

They're a big group of companies (100,000ish employees across at least four major divisions) so I guess one part might be very different to another.

chris


----- Original Message ----
From: Philip Harper <ph004h7245 at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, 14 October, 2007 5:46:03 PM
Subject: Re: [Wolves] BTfon - Can anyone make any sense of this announcement?

Yes......

BT are not a nice company to work for either.  My partner works for BT.

Kevanf1 wrote:
> On 14/10/2007, Andrew Lewis <andrew at monkeysailor.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Andy Wootton wrote:
>>     
>>> http://www.btfon.com/
>>>
>>> BT! WTF?
>>>       
>> Ah, yes - I saw this the other day:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7027871.stm
>>
>> spline
>>
>>     
>
> Not having read the BBC report my personal take on it is.... a good
> publicity stunt for BT.  It ain't 'free wifi' because you will be
> obliged to share your home connection with anybody who is in range.
> This would of course reduce your current available bandwidth by a
> varying amount.  I suppose it all depends on whether you are willing
> to sacrifice home connection speed with being able to access wherever
> this wifi is enabled.  It'll only grow (this particular wifi network)
> if enough people sign up and join.
>
> I didn't spot any mention of how secure this sharing of bandwidth will be.
>   



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