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I don't think this section should be in there. Pretty much any college or university these days has wireless capabilities (correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know the facts), so if the list were complete its members would number in the thousands. In that case, this is definitely not the place to put it. Perhaps it would be appropriate to create a separate list article for this?
Also, I think this article should be renamed Hotspot (Wireless) or Wireless Hotspot. Thoughts? - MescalineBanana 04:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
Probably most of the previous links on the hotspot page should be removed, but perhaps not all of them? I didn't check any of the links, but if there exists any good "hotspot locator database" on the net, at least 1-3 of them should be listed in the links section. I think.
Apropos, the wireless community network article is really mostly just an overgrown link collection ...
I dont think that the book that is listed should be listed. It looks like someone just wanted to do a bit of advertising.
Brief History of Hotspots: "over 90% of the over 300,000 hotspots offer free service to entice customers to their venue"
I'm assuming this refers to hotspots in the US. In NZ most hotspots are not free. Charges are based on either time or bandwidth and managed by 3rd parties.
http://www.cafenet.co.nz/about/services/prepay.html
The other companies offering paid wifi that I noticed in Wellington were GlobalGossip, Swoosh, and Telecom.
Shouldn't there be a list of a few wifi hotspot directories at the bottom of the article? Wikipedia says * here that "There is nothing wrong with adding one or more useful content-relevant links to an article; however, excessive lists can dwarf articles and detract from the purpose of Wikipedia".
So shouldn't we list some wifi hotspots directories like:
www.wi-fihotspotlist.com
etc etc Daabomb
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Khadija97 (talk • contribs) 12:16, 9 March 2012 (UTC)
this article need serious cleaning up! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.109.40.194 (talk) 10:25, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
I think many people come here who would like to setup their own hotspot. We should have some guidelines here at least, so they know where to start... —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fudge55 (talk • contribs) 15:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
"Hotspots may be found in coffee shops and various other public establishments throughout much of North America and Europe" is a silly statement. It suggests that hotspots (in public places) are unheard of in the rest of the world. Nothing is further from the truth. I have used hotspots at Starbucks on four continents and one subcontinent. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.196.141.117 (talk) 21:24, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
Depending on the country where the HotSpot public access service is offered, be they the smallest café or the largest network, it can have various legal obligations.[7]
Not sure if it is worth including in this article, opinions? --142.162.73.242 (talk) 01:12, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
Waarom niet in het Nederlands? 77.171.78.130 (talk) 09:04, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
Since the link open wifi currently redirects to Hotspot (Wi-Fi), I think this article should say a few words about it, in accordance with WP:R#PLA.
Did maybe this article once say something about it, but it got accidentally deleted?
Is maybe some other article such as wireless security more appropriate for saying a few words about open wifi, and so that redirect should be changed to point to that other article?
--DavidCary (talk) 17:21, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi! Coldspot (Wi-Fi) redirects here but "coldspot" does not appear anywhere in this article. Could you ass some sentences to explain what is a "coldspot"? Pamputt (talk) 12:01, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
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This page was flagged as in need of updating as a result of having a lack of citations; this still needs working on but I have added a citation to the "types" section --Sydney2019editor (talk) 23:25, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
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