Verizon FiOS/DSL Customers Get Free Wi-Fi Across US

Glenn Fleishman lets us know that Verizon is finally offering nationwide Wi-Fi access to its high-speed Internet customers, long after Cablevision's similar service went live. While Cablevision is building out an in-house network of hotspots, Verizon is relying on a deal with Boingo Wireless — a strategy with both strengths and drawbacks, as Wi-Fi Net News points out. Neither Verizon's nor Boingo's announcement reveals the mechanics of how existing Verizon DSL and FiOS customers will get access, but an AP report spells it out: "To use a hotspot, the customer must install software that works only on computers with Windows Vista or XP installed. Phones, iPods, and Macintosh computers with Wi-Fi can't access the hotspots."

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Re:This is IDIOCY has mshaft earmarks

[davidsyes]

ALL OVER, or it has myopic/corrupted/ignorant/insensitive STUPID verizon marketing, legal, and ms/verizon/stupid-lazy-programmers/marketing-kickback dollars ALL OVER IT.

Why can't these geniouses operate within normal, existing, working, trusted, proven, os-agnostic protocols. These kinds of people deserve to be keelhauled, razor-wire-whipped, then possibly drawn and quartered. I wonder how many Apple and Linux customers of verizon would be compelled to buy a PC. This damned shit sounds like a trial balloon to lube and lure people into buying into windoze 7.

Let's all barrage the various congress/senate/state public utilities authorities, even if we are not verizon customers. THIS MEGALOMANIA/MYOPIA/VENDOR-FAVORING SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO STAND.

(Looking for a new gasket since the current one just blew...)

[[[ Is that a little better NAIOOWWWW??? CAN YOU HEAR ME NAOOOWWW??? ]]]

Re:This is IDIOCY has mshaft earmarks

[davidsyes]

So, my comment stripped of profanity gets modded flamebait by some dipshit asshole ms-fanboy/fangirl/fanthing, yet my comment filled with expletives (and marked insightful on the first go) is left to stand UNMOLESTED.

(More proof that slash's moderation system should skew/curve mod things so that last asshole in line doesn't override/overshadow a general consensus. Just because two ppl mod something doesn't mean the last derogatory/downgrading mod should win, slash. If it's two, grade it a draw; if more, show the weights. Clamp down on assholes who have too much plastic in their rears or not enough of a real life under their belts.)