Innovative Wi-Fi client from Telefonica "ClubADSL"

This post is a bit tardy, but an interesting way for ISPs to start thinking in the New Year, especially with the opening firefights breaking out in the war between content providers and their distributors.

Spanish Telco Telefonica has introduced a proof of concept project for a Wi-Fi enabled laptop to bond together multiple adjacent wireless networks backhauled by their ADSL lines and aggregate the bandwidth.  Clever, and an interesting way to be a very smart dumb pipe.  The PC client software and its backend glue make the service provider stickier by delivering a superior customer experience.

http://www.tid.es/en/current-events/news/clubadsl-makes-it-possible-to-share-adsl-with-neighbours-to-increase-capacity