On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 17:08:51 -0500, Livingood, Jason <Jason_Livingood@cable.comcast.com> wrote:
... Behavioral economics would suggest that opt-in rates are almost always lower than opt-out.
There's two ways to look at it: a) Everyone knows about it. Few would bother to opt-in, many would bother to opt-out. b) Few ("no one") knows about it. Few will (can) opt-in to service they aren't aware of. Likewise, how does one opt-out if they don't know about it. (FTR, the last one is what's going on here. It's relatively unknown, and many are apparently opting out as soon as they a) hear about it, and b) learn *how* to opt-out. But, yes, there are those too lazy to bother.)
This is definitely specialized software logic and on the frontier of work called radio resource management.
Not really. It's just a simple scan of the channels looking for any xfinity wifi *BEFORE* blindly enabling the service. Yes, it's more work than the built-into-the-chipset automatic channel selection. But if the service has it's own radio, it's lame not to do this.