>From what I've seen of Node's Free HotSpots... it's actually for Node Subscribers. Maybe they plan to offer limited services via this connection?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 5:25 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mw@freenet.net.au">mw@freenet.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Interesting – I’d love to know just how far the interpretation
of ‘free’ goes.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I’ve worked on some projects similar to this recently, and the
term ‘free’ usually has some fairly loose definitions! ;-)</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Most free services I have seen are ‘free to subscribers’ or ‘free
for the first x hours/minutes/megabytes’ or ‘free for this set of web sites’
etc.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Sometimes they are packed with pop-up adware or shaped to
crawling speeds, or limited in service availability.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">In the end, someone has to pay – and it’s not usually the ISP
(though sometimes it is). I wonder how much the MGC group will end up paying
for this?<br>
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Cheers!<br>
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Mike.</span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> <a href="mailto:melbwireless-bounces@wireless.org.au" target="_blank">melbwireless-bounces@wireless.org.au</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:melbwireless-bounces@wireless.org.au" target="_blank">melbwireless-bounces@wireless.org.au</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dean Collins<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 27 March 2009 3:28 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:syd-wireless@lists.sydneywireless.com" target="_blank">syd-wireless@lists.sydneywireless.com</a>; <a href="mailto:melbwireless@wireless.org.au" target="_blank">melbwireless@wireless.org.au</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [MLB-WIRELESS] MCG wifi</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><a href="http://www.crn.com.au/News/99750,case-study-internode-free-wifi-at-the-mcg.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.crn.com.au/News/99750,case-study-internode-free-wifi-at-the-mcg.aspx</a></span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Any
comments?</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Regards,</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;">Dean
Collins<br>
</span><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black;">Cognation Inc<br>
</span><a href="mailto:dean@cognation.net" title="blocked::mailto:dean@cognation.net
mailto:dean@cognation.net" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">dean@cognation.net</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; color: black;"><br>
</span></a><span style="font-size: 7.5pt; color: black;">+1-212-203-4357 New York<br>
+61-2-9016-5642 (Sydney in-dial).<br>
+44-20-3129-6001 (London in-dial).</span><span></span></p>
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