Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
Growth at Fon has accelerated. So much so that we reached one million community members and close to 300K lit routers (this is ten times more routers than T Mobile has on a worldwide basis). Yes it is true that a lot of the growth from Fon is now coming from operator deals, [...]
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
An impressive milestone for Madrid-based wifi sharing network Fon , which counts eBay and Google among its investors: It's hit a million users in more than 150 countries, and boasts more than 400,000 wifi hotspots in the world -- including several in New York City. But now Fon -- whose members share part of their home broadband connections in exchange for access to other networks, or for a small bit...
Nikkei (Free subscription) | 24/08/2008
FON Expanding Shared WiFi Presence In JapanTOKYO (Nikkei)--FON Wireless Ltd., a British company that supports and promotes an international community of shared wireless Internet access, is expanding its business in Japan.
PS3 (Free subscription) | 22/08/2008
Sony Computer Entertainment Japan has just announced that it will be teaming up with FON to provide free WiFi access to PSP users. FON is a free hotspot community, which works by having members share their connections out to each other, creating a large network of freely accessible wireless access points.
Post Political Times (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
I am just back from holidaying in a small Castilian town near to Salamanca called Bejar. My inbox filled up and I needed to push some urgent work stuff through the email account. I was desperate. My work provides me with an iPass account but the supposed access points in the Bejar [...]
SlashPhone (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
FON and Joikusoft are releasing an exclusive version of Joikusoft’s mobile hotspot solution, named FonSpot. FonSpot turns a mobile phone into a Wi-Fi HotSpot, enabling any laptop, iPod Touch, internet tablet or other Wi-Fi device to connect to the Internet using any compatible mobile phone as a secure high speed Internet gateway. FonSpot with Wi-Fi will [...]
Today's Review (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
A collaboration between software developer Joikusoft and FON was announced by the two companies on Friday that will involve using 3G-enabled phones to act as Wi-Fi hotspots. The two will release a version of JoikuSpot — called FonSpot — that will allow 3G data network-enabled cellular phones to connect with multiple laptops, Internet tablets and [...]
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 30/07/2008
The city of Arezzo will soon host one of the first Italian municipal WiFi networks, thanks to an agreement with FON and the involvement of its citizens, who will share their Internet connections and contribute to the roll out of the network. The municipality will install FON Hotspots in strategical locations all around the city. Citizens [...]
BBC News (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Young Welsh goalkeeper Owain Fôn Williams agrees a move from Crewe Alexandra to Stockport County.
Football.co.uk (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
Stockport County manager Jim Gannon hopes to sign at least two more players after agreeing a deal to bring Wales Under-21 goalkeeper Owain Fon Williams to Edgeley Park. The highly-rated 21-yea...
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Fon from China Herald comments on the recent change in visa policy due to the Beijing Olympic.
P2P Foundation (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
Update on the project for a global peer to peer wireless infrastructure in the New York Times: Excerpt from the 3-page recommended reportage: “At the moment, there are just 830,000 registered Foneros around the world, and only 340,000 active Wi-Fi hotspots run FON software. Because it’s built upon the concept of sharing Wi-Fi access, FON works well [...]
Wireless guide (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Guy Dixon, vnunet.com , Friday 6 June 2008 at 14:41:00 Mutual Wi-Fi back-scratching initiative gains momentum BT has persuaded more than 100,000 of its Total Broadband customers to share part of their capacity as a wireless hotspot via the BT Fon network…. > Â Read the full article Original post by Yahoo! News Search Results for wireless router
Wireless guide (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
BT has persuaded more than 100,000 of its Total Broadband customers to share part of their capacity as a wireless hotspot via the BT Fon network. Original post by Yahoo! News Search Results for wireless router
Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
I’m very glad to announce BT FON, the WiFi community we built with BT, has now more then 100,000 members in the UK. This is a great confirmation of how FON is great for telcos and ISPs and how fast Fon can grow thanks to deals like the ones with BT, Neuf or the [...]
