BT in a move to persuade customers to share their Wi-Fi.

BT has liased with Spanish technology company Fon, with the support of world giant, Google, to try to get its more than 3 million British internet users to open up part of their home wireless broadband networks so that other people can use them.
They are hoping it will push wireless broadband access, or wi-fi, into suburban and even rural areas. In return for letting other BT customers use part of their broadband connection, a give away was promised by the company to those customers that are ready to sign up to "BT Fon", as they will have free access to the networks of other British "Foneros" and more than 190,000 Fon-enabled wireless access hotspots across 50 countries including the US, Japan and France.
"The UK will become the country with the most pervasive and ubiquitous wi-fi service in the world as a result of this deal," said Fon founder and chief executive Martin Varsavsky. "When you are a BT Fonero you can roam the world free. It is like an alliance of people across the world who have seen there is much more value in creating a network than in a standalone wi-fi proposition."
The offer is to be made available from from Monday for those who already have existing home wireless equipment.
Not forgetting that customers would be security conscious when the idea of sharing part of a home network is likely to dicussed. BT's head of consumer services, Gavin Patterson, however, said the service splits a user's broadband connection in two, reserving just 512kbps or about an eighth of the average broadband connection, for the public service.
The rest of the connection remains under the control of the homeowner who can put any security access - including passwords - on to it that they want