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

Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AlsaValderaan@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A bit offtopic about a pet peeve of mine, but this is why it’d be super nice if social media that end up getting screenshot had absolute timestamps. Thank you for letting us know.

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• Sunny@slrpnk.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  my bad! I misread the context and had not heard of it before - yet living in the EU. I will change the title. I got confused as I saw their post on LinkedIn, and it was posted recently: linkedin.com/…/european-commission_wifi4eu-activi…

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  • viking@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s still active as in, they maintain the hotspots. But I just had a look at the map, and it looks like there’s spotty service mostly clustered around tiny villages, rather than providing coverage to areas that actual get significant tourism or other visitors.

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• HK65@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of their access points has saved my skin twice now, so I’m happy it exists.

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• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  35E/month per access point for 3 years, it’s not too bad if they got actual use, if that means where ever you go there will be free internet at hand that can be relied upon and that will even save the precious RF bandwidth of cell phone towers and reduces cell phone subscription by an equivalent amount

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    if that means where ever you go there will be free internet at hand that can be relied upon

    Yeah if that were the case it could be useful. Unfortunately the map looks pretty bad: wifi4eu.ec.europa.eu/#/list-accesspoints

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      They seem pretty evenly distributed to me ?

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      • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sure there are a few everywhere, but the big gaps are the issue.

        For example in your screenshot if you zoom in on Poitiers you’ll see there are none there, only in the two northern neighbor communes Neuville de Poitou and Jaunay-Clan. Similar for Nantes, none there, they are all in Saint-Sébastien-Sur-Loire and Thouaré-sur-Loire, the center and all the other suburbs have nothing.

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