Comcast did something that would be inconceivable if it was any other business than Comcast: 50,000 residential Xfinity modems into public turned WiFi hotspots. There are 50,000 paying Xfinity customers in Houston, Texas who are now airing WiFi that anyone can use. As far as Comcast is worried, obviously, it is a master move to blanket the nation in high speed WiFi (and there are plans to hijack millions more modems by the end of 2014) — for Comcast’s customers, however, this really is egregious monopolistic overreach taken to the following level… and it is potentially prohibited too.