From the very beginning and the beginning of wireless networks have had a vision of free apart from the obvious comfort. The Tenet Internet connection without having to touch a cord, was a revolution in its time, and with the arrival of the routers wifi by the service providers are seeing a way to have Internet "free" the neighbor, which then gave way to security problems.
Then, and the hand of the philosophies GPL, free software etc etc, appeared La Fonera which was based on the selfless generosity of people to share their bandwidth left over, and must be rectified step the issue of security.
Heterogeneous here that we are now much more with some developments worked on the same end, provide connection to the network of networks charge for the end user. One of those developments is Free-Hotspot to customers, or guests, all without having to be registered or associated with it, unlike what happened with FON.
The system of Free - Hotspot is also supported on Cisco technology, specifically the famous Linksys WRT54GL, so flexible in its configuration and adequacy of firmware, so that once configured handle all sorts of aspects of the connection.
All the infrastructure free, and Free - Hotspot is not going to be less, one way or another is covered by advertising. In this case who have their connection to ADSL or broadband in general (DSL) for the purpose of sharing the Internet, receive in return a share of advertising revenue. . In this way, the system can be understood as an advertising medium, and the team publicist.
- The advertising medium are those who want to share, receive a share of revenue from advertising.
- The publicist Free - Hotspot.
Of course all this simplicity in the likeness is behind a great prelude to manage and display ads click through a simple firmware for Linksys. But nevertheless, Free-Hotspot is already the largest provider of wireless Internet in the world, with a growth of 400% in 2007. In Spain there are already more than 1000 hotspots free of charge.
Thanks to the trends of such connections wifi, which are installed in public places with influx of people, there are already multinationals are now following up the results of these risky bets. Such is the case with Microsoft and Google.
This Friday I meet Mr. Manna, technical and commercial director of Free - Hotspot for Spain and Portugal. (Hotspot Market Development Manager).
