&gt; But to take your idea just one step further, once you&#x27;ve opened up all wifi for the general publics consumption (what a renaissance for wired networking!)<p>I think this requires clarification - I don&#x27;t mean no business should ever use wifi. I mean businesses like telephone companies shouldn&#x27;t be using to augment their networks. Obviously offices and the like need secure wireless networking that normal hardware can connect to.<p>&gt; Why is it wrong to use unlicensed spectrum for private gain<p>Maybe with my above correction this isn&#x27;t needed, but in cities the 2.4ghz channel is loaded to death and in a few years the 5ghz channel will be the same. All I&#x27;m objecting to are these closed commercial networks from people who should be paying for the spectrum bunging up the open one the rest of us use. My city is <i>soaked</i> with a wifi network that is closed to everyone except the customers of a telco. If your primary business is providing network connectivity, perhaps you should pay for the finite resource you use.