wifi hotspots?

BCEagle91
Thu, 20 Jun 2013 11:27:05 +0000

ComCast has a free WiFi program with over 100,000 hotspots. You can go to their website to get a map of hotspots in their area. If you have them as your ISP, you can log into these hotspots with your ComCast credentials and use their hotspots.

ComCast is planning to greatly expand this program by providing the service from their residential customers. Customers that get new service and rent their modems will get a new kind of modem which has service for the residential customer and which will also provide guest WiFi service for other ComCast customers. It is not supposed to affect the residential customers bandwidth allocation and it is supposed to be walled off from the customer’s network. This has the potential to decrease the data needs of ComCast customers on their phone plans.

ISP service and mobile data plans are very profitable areas for comm companies. Competition moving in could greatly reduce prices.