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Originally posted by cageyjames
Well its that and the fact it is very fragmented. Too many different business models, too many sales. Its like dialup was a couple years ago. Thousands of "Mom and Pop" ISPs, but now they are all just about gone. What we need is an "AOL" type to sweep in and make them all compatible and all open to one login.
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Incidentally there is a company that is doing something similar to this. After moving to College Station I found part-time employment as a tech support technician for a company called NetNearU. This company basically handles the authentication of thousands of users for its licensees. Once you go to a location that has a hot spot you can either do Pay-Per-Minute or subscribe. This subscription gives you access to any licensee's hotspot world wide. I quit working there in November when I finally found full time employment, but when I quit they had signed exclusive contracts with some of the following: Cometa & Cox Communications (they are the ones putting hotspots in McDonalds and Barnes & Noble stores), AOL Time Warner, Canova Wireless (Big in the UK from my understanding), AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, and I see from their website that they just signed an agreement with IPass. They are also tied in with Boingo I believe. Their website is
NetNearU if you would like to learn more about them or find hotspots that they handle the authentication for.