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> If we ever get a wireless alternative that is as fast as fiber (and easily deployable) we'd see the end of traditional telecoms as we know it.

Like every Google Fiber set top box being a wireless access point accessible to other Google Fiber customers, as well as free to Android users? And Google using their fiber right of ways to deploy 802.11ac or picocells?

Only in my dreams sir.

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It would be neat if they offered a discount for them being wireless access points accessible to other Google Fiber customers.

I'm not sure about the Android part, just because it would be almost impossible to prevent someone from running all connections in a house through an Android device and get free internet.

I don't know, I've used my phone as an internet hub, and the sheer heat from pulling that amount of data through the antennas while charging seems like a great way to drastically shorten the lifespan of a phone.

Granted, I did this with an old Galaxy S (it ran upwards of 80°c), which has its antenna and power supply right beside each other.

Yeah, but if Google started offering free high-speed WiFi then someone would make a "DIY Android Hub" which had a better antenna, better cooling, and possibly even ethernet ports.

> Like every Google Fiber set top box being a wireless access point accessible to other Google Fiber customer...

There's a provider (Shaw) doing this part in Canada: http://www.shaw.ca/wifi/

Much of the same in France. Many semi-"public" hotspots set up for subscribers.

Portugal is blanketed with Fonera hotspots, from the homes of the clients of our biggest ISP. The nice thing is that you can buy a router from Fonera and use the network without having to be switch ISPs :)

This is exactly what http://fon.com/ do across large chunks of the world.

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