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Yeah, ancient and then made modern. Let's just scrap the thing.
I'd love to find an intensive model where part of the fee goes to the connectivity provider of a wifi that you can gain access to if you have a key. It wouldn't "free" but it would be free as in access. That would reduce GSM's need to know you're exact location and velocity in order to operate and make it 100 fold more reliable that you can get on a wifi. It would be cheap too because the distance through air would be way less. We're talking about a cafe making 2 cents off of your call. When it all adds up its really going to be cheap.
If payment channels for Bitcoin goes through (you can transfer money as needed without actually sending anything until the transaction is finalized or a set time period has passed; you only pay the network fee on the final amount) there's a really interesting use case for pay-as-you-go phone/wifi service. The only problem is that it works well with one provider because you have to open a payment channel for each party.
Opening a payment channel between parties can be automated easily. Their wifi has an id it broadcasts (say a bitcoin address). A WOT that you access over 4g tells you if they're worth paying. You send a bitcoin transaction through the 4g or a a direct signal to the wireless station and then announce the payment (will process faster if they have the payment and can veryify unspents). You exchange public keys (possibly tied to those bitcoin accounts) and use it to do a diffiehelman key exchange. Now you're talking.
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[–] luckyguy ago
Yeah, ancient and then made modern. Let's just scrap the thing.
I'd love to find an intensive model where part of the fee goes to the connectivity provider of a wifi that you can gain access to if you have a key. It wouldn't "free" but it would be free as in access. That would reduce GSM's need to know you're exact location and velocity in order to operate and make it 100 fold more reliable that you can get on a wifi. It would be cheap too because the distance through air would be way less. We're talking about a cafe making 2 cents off of your call. When it all adds up its really going to be cheap.
[–] HoneyNutStallmans ago
If payment channels for Bitcoin goes through (you can transfer money as needed without actually sending anything until the transaction is finalized or a set time period has passed; you only pay the network fee on the final amount) there's a really interesting use case for pay-as-you-go phone/wifi service. The only problem is that it works well with one provider because you have to open a payment channel for each party.
[–] luckyguy ago
Opening a payment channel between parties can be automated easily. Their wifi has an id it broadcasts (say a bitcoin address). A WOT that you access over 4g tells you if they're worth paying. You send a bitcoin transaction through the 4g or a a direct signal to the wireless station and then announce the payment (will process faster if they have the payment and can veryify unspents). You exchange public keys (possibly tied to those bitcoin accounts) and use it to do a diffiehelman key exchange. Now you're talking.