Amstetten, a middle sized town next to Austria’s major highway A1, now offers Wifi over the FON network in their public library.
Don’t get me wrong, I highly appreciate FON, got my own FON router last week (btw, bid here for my good old NETGEAR WGT624) but what would be the advantage of FON for a local authority over offering 100% free Wifi?
I hope for the financial situation of Amstetten that it’s not the price of the router (FON is sponsoring Wifi routers) or the possibility to “milk your wifi” either.
My personal motivation for participating in FON is and offering my connection to other FON users is being able to use their hotspots in return, without any credit card transfers and being charged absurdly high fees for Wifi.
I think FON is quite a good choice for public places like restaurants, coffee shops, etc. You can easily setup and offer Wifi for a reasonable price (or for free) to your guests and make some extra profit if you want.
FON does look promising indeed. From time to time I check the FON maps where you can observe the growing number and location of FON hotspots.
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