Open Your Wifi Network

Open Your Wifi Network
   

• When many people open a guest network on their wifi, we won't need a telephone company contract to use the Internet.  
• We'll be able use the Internet without a telephone company recording our texts, Web visits, and keystrokes.  
• We can use encrypted voice over Internet for calls.
• Inventors will invent amazing new things using the open standards of Wifi.  
• Inventors won't have to ask a telephone company's permission to comply with its proprietary standards.
• Travelers and passers-by will be able to use the Internet easily.
• It will be cheaper for low-income people to use the Internet.
• We'll be able to communicate better during emergencies.

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During my recent visit to India, I was talking to a kid. I took my phone and tried to show some picture and share information. Then I realized that I didn't have phone service in India and my phone didn't have connectivity. But the kid said to me, "No worry." The kid went inside and came back with his phone.

The kid created a wifi hotspot with his phone and asked me to connect using that hotspot. For a second, I was just looking at the kid. The mind is so young and fresh; not corrupted at all; infinite possibilities. It did work. We could continue with our conversation for a quite a long time. I did enjoy the challenge and the innovative opportunity. 

Just open up your heart; then open up your wifi. Share your wifi with your fellow citizens of planet earth.

In Chennai, around Adyar, Besant Nagar; almost all home have high-speed wifi. In those homes, mostly older parents live. Their children are in abroad. They don't use the internet to its full capacity. They could easily open up their wifi. Entire Besant Nagar would have a citywide wifi. You don't need to wait for government to build citywide wifi. As citizen, you could build citywide wifi.

In Madurai, I was in the omnibus stand. All the omnibus operators have their office in that busstand. All of them have wifi in their office. But it is all closed; not open. If they could open up their wifi, it would have been very much beneficial to their customers.

Two decades ago, when they launched the first-generation wi-fi, it was open; there was no security lock. During that time, you get connection from any open wifi network; likewise, others may connect to your network too. There was no serious security threat. But these telephone companies didn't like the openness and started building locks for your wifi.

In Delhi, initially, the government could encourage the business houses to provide wifi to public. Let it be, Kake Da Dhaba or Saravana Bhavan or Haldiram. Let them provide open wifi to their customers. Likewise, let the stores, textile houses, hospitals and all kinds of shops; let them open up their wifi.

Let Delhi be a model for Open Wireless Internet.

Don't use the word 'free'

We don't say, Oxygen is free in Delhi. 

Oh! that is a different topic. Perhaps, now, polluted air is free in Delhi. People may carry Oxygen; just like those water bottles. 

So, just open up your heart; open up your wireless internet; share it with fellow citizens and visitors.