On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 10:11 AM Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com> wrote:

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Since everybody has their own wifi it seems that federating all of them
for pretty good coverage by a provider and charging a nominal fee to
manage it would suit a lot of people needs. It doesn't need expensive
spectrum and the real estate is "free". Basically a federation of
"guestnets".

Mike

Which is pretty much what Xfinity is already offering 

to their subscribers; use your xfinity login to get onto 

the wifi access points of other xfinity users all around 

the country, relatively seamlessly.

I'm sure other networks that provide their own CPE are 

likely to follow suit as well. 

What I was thinking of is more of "over the top" where I don't need to be an Xfinity customer (lot least of which is that I can't).

It does seems that providing the CPE is inevitable though, but for a lot of people that's feature not a bug.

Mike