Tuesday, September 26, 2006

Sharing is FON . . . And here’s more to share

One of the most exciting and challenging aspects of building the FON Community is creating an absolutely unique business concept through direct, open and transparent processes. FON actually blogs and publishes its statistics, dilemmas, and strategies in a manner in which its Foneros and the general public can essentially experience FON’s business decisions in real time. FON discloses information that few companies would ever dare to share with the outside world. Unlike other companies, FON thinks sharing is fun. Foneros share, and FON shares. Sharing is FON.

And here is some great news to share, hot from the press . . .

Today we will cross the 20,000 activated FON Access Point mark. Unfortunately, for the time being, only 11,632 appear on the FON Maps. At the same time, we have 92,398 registered users, of which only 44,315 appear on our Maps. This is because we haven’t been pushy, asking each and every Fonero repeatedly to give us their name, age, and rank. Hopefully, as time goes by, more and more of the members of our Community will share their locations details in a way that will make our Maps more accurate and easier for everyone to use WiFi everywhere.

All in all, we think it is really cool that Foneros can connect to the Internet around the world in over one hundred countries using their WiFi. And even cooler, all of this started less than a year ago by a bunch of freakies in the outskirts of Madrid. We know that Foneros haven’t always had it easy. So, we’ve just launched La Fonera, the new FON Social router that is almost "plug and play" and can be set up in just a few minutes. Also, we think we are the only company in the world that is offering such an amazing product, La Fonera, for only $5 or €5.

FON is growing its Community of Foneros at an amazing rate, and we are trying to grow the FON team quick enough to support all of the new members. As a matter of fact, Martin has not had a siesta in the last 6 months. So, please, help, send us your CV, and join the team!

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