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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Man, I wish I could have been in that meeting

[NaCh0]

Marketing Douche: Say, how about we offer mobile internet access that won't work with mobile devices.

PHB: Great idea!!

Re:This is fucking BULLSHIT, and it has mshaft

[Anonymous Coward]

ALL OVER, or it has dumb-ass STUPID verizon marketing, legal, and ms/verizon/stupid-lazy-programmers/marketing..........

Show me, on this doll, where Verizon touched you.