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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2017-09-29 02:22, Graeme Fitzpatrick
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<div>Noticed in the discussion of the devices tag, mention of
devices attached to telephone booths, which got me thinking.</div>
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<div>Here in Australia, Telstra provides public wifi access via
it's Telstra Air network (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://www.telstra.com.au/telstra-air">https://www.telstra.com.au/telstra-air</a>),
which is also linked to the international Fon network (<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://network.fon.com/"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://network.fon.com/">https://network.fon.com/</a></a>).</div>
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<div>A lot / most of Telstra's wifi spots are mounted on public
telephone boxes (the pink bit's shown on the above link :-)) -
I don't know about Fon?</div>
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Fon works as a public service on <a href="https://maps.fon.com">consenting
private WiFi routers</a>.<br>
The router software completely isolates the private and public parts
of the router<br>
Access to any working Fon router is granted to anyone who consents
to open the service on his own router or for a price. Consenting
people are charged on their home bill the traffic they use
elsewhere.<br>
Usually, router users are unaware of Fon and are consenting by
default.<br>
It would, of course, be a totally useless chore to update Fon comes
and goes on OSM and to duplicate the Fon map.<br>
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<div>So, do we have a tag for public wifi / internet spots? </div>
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<div>I can't see anything for one, but I guess it would come
under amenity=*, same as amenity=telephone for public phones?</div>
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<div>If we don't, should we? </div>
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<div>Graeme</div>
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