FON - Anarchic Wireless Network

There may be others out there that have started building anarchic wireless networks, but perhaps no one with the class and style of Martin Varsavsky's FON. Martin writes about starting Fon in his blog:

What is FON? Very simple. At FON we developed a software client that you download from the net and you install it in your wifi base station. At that moment your wifi gives you a password of your choice but starts accepting all the other passwords of all the other FON members. FON is based on the premise that with wifi now being 54MB on cable and DSL platforms of 1MB or more that wifi users are only taking advantage of 3% of their capacity on the average or in other words wasting 97% of their capacity. At the same time what users want is for their laptops, PDAs, wifi phones, and soon wifi enable ipods, wifi enable digital cameras to access to everyone else´s wifi so they can walk around cities taking pictures, listening to music, playing games on wifi playstations, etc. And this we accomplish by turning millions of wifi installations into a unified wifi FON network with a standard interface to accept all kind of wifi enabled devices.

This could get very scary for the incumbent wireless network operators! A citizen driven network? Sounds a lot like democracy smashing down the walls of the tyrants, telecommunications style...