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Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge.

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HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

If I had this in the US, I’d be cancelling my cellular service entirely, I’d still keep my home service though, to VPN into it for a bit more security when using a public wifi connection.

I would also just transfer my phone number to one of those cheap voip providers, then just use voip from my phone everywhere.

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Ehhh… I might cancel the data part of my plan, but I dunno how comfortable I would be relying on notoriously spotty Wi-Fi to make or receive phone calls.

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- HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  In my case, it’d be fine. I already mainly use data for phone calls, and I also have 2 phones, one of which is work-provided, so I’ll still have communications…
  
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a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
you wouldn’t be happy with that. i looked up how the Wifi routers are distributed, and (in Austria at least) small towns have 1-2 routers placed in the municipal buildings they have, servicing the town square. Which means you would have to sit around inside or outside of city hall all day.

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- TheSaddestMan@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Yes, it’s not like poor people or children with abusive parents need library wifi to do anything important like looking up how to deal with life’s shit when their parents never taught them how. </sarcasm>
  
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  - a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    bro, i never said anything about people in bad situations; it’s clear that they profit from that and that’s a great thing. but cancelling your cell service to use this instead is not a smart move.
    
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