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Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
If everyone just opened up their wifi router, we wouldn't even need transmitters, towers, etc. Anything the wireless carriers provide you, you can do over the net. There are some issues like transparent handovers, but I'm sure people can make software to work around it.

There were some startups back in the day that were going to give wifi routers to everyone so you can sell your bandwidth and people would be able to access the net from everywhere. Whatever happened to those?
We would need those because WiFi doesn't support roaming and it doesn't provide as good coverage as 3G. As for what happened to those, you might like the FON principle.
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