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        <title><![CDATA[Bursa Escort]]></title>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[canlimacizle94]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:32:09 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bursa Escort]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 10:07:42 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Fon has five million hotspots, how are they managing the legal risk?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thank you for this thoughtful comment, there is a lot of un-informed fear-mongering about the issues raised by internet use (see SOPA) and it is a nice change to hear a thoughtful set of questions. We certainly agree that American law is not as clear-cut or innovation-friendly as it should be!Although we think our model is more competitive economically, we take our hats off to the hardworking people at Fon for entering this market early and successfully. Although we sometimes get this question, it clearly doesn't keep them from growing the business massively; nor does it stop millions of other everyday wifi-sharing use cases (Starbucks, public libraries, and on and on).Incidentally, because the KeyWifi model is totally transparent, the hotspot owners know who is logging on to their router; they can set the hours of access and also block specific signons (or, conversely, block everyone *except* specific members). So this isn't a scenario where you are sharing wifi with strangers, it's much more like carpooling. (Fon as I understand it has a more traditional top-down telecom model, not a community-driven model like KeyWifi.)Lastly, your point about routers is a good one, and a point of differentiation for Keywifi. The Fon solution requires a Fon router, whereas the KeyWifi solution uses the customer's own equipment, with a configuration change to use the highest level of encryption (if you're curious: it is &quot;WPA2 enterprise&quot; -- KeyWifi being the 'enterprise' in this context). So, customers are free to upgrade their routers (they all support WPA2 enterprise) as they see fit and at their convenience.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tmcmh]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:17:21 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Bandwidth is another market set to be reshaped by the internet]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Our expectation is that, far from killing unlimited-use subscription models, this development will save them, because it will tend to smooth out usage during the day. Most (almost all) consumer and small-business wifi usage is very lumpy (I'm at work, so my FIOS connection at home is totally unused; when the office is empty, the T-1s go dark). This means that customers are buying service they are not using, but it also means that ISPs can't invest as much as they would otherwise -- in the end, investment is driven by utilization, because only utilization is monetizable. These developments -- I'm including KeyWifi and our competitors -- will tend to discover off-hours users. In my case, my neighbor works from home and we should probably share our bandwidth; over time, if that replicates, Verizon will get more usage from its investment and greater profitability -- higher utilization of a sunk cost. That's good for them and will probably make high-upfront-cost services like FIOS more profitable to deploy.While we at KeyWifi are not free-market utopians, we do expect the free market to operate here, and it's very interesting to us that the internet itself, in this &quot;collaborative consumption&quot; scenario, is making it happen.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tmcmh]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 07:06:19 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In the US, there are legal questions]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In the US, most ISPs (I use Comcast, which is among them) specifically prohibit sharing of your bandwidth with strangers in their user contracts. Thus they can terminate your service at any time if they determine that you are reselling your bandwidth or just letting others use it for free (businesses hosting open wifi access points have to buy their service under a different, more expensive  business contract which allows this).If someone is detected downloading child porn or even just downloading illegal movies from your open access point, you will have a very hard time proving that it is not you. Prosecutors, for example, will say that you opened up a public access site just to hide your illegal activities. At the very least, your home will be searched and your computing equipment seized. People who host Tor exit nodes (an anonymizing protocol which shares your bandwidth with strangers) have had all kinds of similar problems with ISPs and legal authorities.People who host open access points and Tor exit nodes usually have the best of intentions. Unfortunately, our legal system does not assume that level of good intentions.A few years ago I used to host a fon open access point. Aside from the legal issues, the router hardware was a bit behind other routers (e.g., no gigabit ports), and the software didn't have many of the features of comparable routers. The situation may be better now, but fon just isn't as well financed as Cisco or D-Link and can't update its hardware and software as often.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[zackers]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 00:55:29 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[This may be the final straw for the &quot;unlimited use&quot; model]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[If these catch on as many hope they will, the inevitable result would be that more traditional broadband subscribers would eventually cancel their service to join these supposedly cheaper services, while at the same time increasing usage of the overall network.  Then what happens?  The days of &quot;unlimited&quot; broadband access will be over, which will kill these services themselves since nobody is going to want to pay for other people's data usage.  The parasite will eventually kill its host.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:52:17 -0800</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Your readers may want to learn more and support KeyWifi]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thank you so much for the recognition. The comparison with Fon (over 5 millioh hotspots) is apt but incomplete. Our model gets its strength from community participation: members contribute their wifi to build the fabric, and subscription fees are shared back to the contributors according to how much they contribute. This model means Keywifi is suited not only to high-density urban environments (like you say in the article) but also to underserved neighborhoods where many residents struggle to pay the high cost of access, and pass the credit checks that many ISPs require.KeyWifi is an early stage New York-based startup. Your readers may be interested to know how to get involved with our crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo: http://bit.ly/ilovekw1thanks again!- Tom Hughes, KeyWifi co-founder]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[tmcmh]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:59:42 -0800</pubDate>
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