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Re: Comcast thinks it ok to install public wifi in your house

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Dec 11 18:40:52 2014

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Dec 2014 18:30:50 -0500."
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Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 10:40:38 +1100
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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In message <19950282.2897.1418340650252.JavaMail.root@benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja
y Ashworth writes:
> > > Now, had Comcast pitched it as the Wi-Fi benefiting YOU because your
> > > freinds you use their Comcast credentials to access your Wi-Fi, then
> > > customers would not see this as Comcast using your hardware for its
> > > own
> > > benefit.
> > 
> > They do. Your friends don't even need to be Comcast customers.
> 
> They do?  They don't?  That's not the assumption that's been being made
> here...

Read the FAQ link posted earlier.  This was also posted on /. where
non customers were using the service in the middle of nowhere.

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