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Re: What do you think about the "cloudification" of mobile?


From: Matthew Petach <mpetach () netflight com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 11:44:19 -0800

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:11 AM Michael Thomas <mike () mtcc com> wrote:


[...]

Since everybody has their own wifi it seems that federating all of them
for pretty good coverage by a provider and charging a nominal fee to
manage it would suit a lot of people needs. It doesn't need expensive
spectrum and the real estate is "free". Basically a federation of
"guestnets".

Mike


Which is pretty much what Xfinity is already offering
to their subscribers; use your xfinity login to get onto
the wifi access points of other xfinity users all around
the country, relatively seamlessly.

I'm sure other networks that provide their own CPE are
likely to follow suit as well.

Matt

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