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Sunday, June 25, 2006

The Bills land on the WiFi Planet

It’s fiesta time at FON. We’re launching the Bills! We’re inviting you to join the celebration and discover all the new features we’ve added to FON.

Starting today, FONeros will be able to milk their WiFi by choosing to become a BILL! The idea is simple: Bills earn money when visitors who do not share their WiFi with FON (a.k.a “Aliens”) buy a FON Pass at the Bills’ FON Hotspot.

FONeros will also have access to a new and personalized User Zone where all kinds of user information will be accessed and edited in real time. For example, as a FONero, you’ll be able to promote and give free access to your blog or website and leave personal messages on your FON Hotspot’s Access Portal that appears every time a user connects to your WiFi signal. Even better, your FON Travel Log will let you trace your footsteps and see where you connected to FON in the past. You’ll also be able to see who is connected to your FON Hotspot at any given moment. If you decide to become a Bill, you’ll be able to keep track of all the connection passes you’ve sold.

Of course, we haven’t forgotten all those who have registered an account with FON but still don’t have a FON Social Router. Take advantage of our special offer, we’re subsidizing them so that you can buy one today for only €/$ 5!

To find out more about all the new FON features being launched, visit our website today at www.fon.com and help us build the WiFi Planet!

 

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Very cool! I just ordered mine. Unfortunately shipping added an extra 18 euros to Ireland, which seems like a lot, but I hope it'll still be worth it.

# 1 | Sent by: Robin Hood – Monday, June 26, 2006 (11:14)

$5 router, is this available to the uk?

# 2 | Sent by: Reuben Sutton – Monday, June 26, 2006 (22:59)

Anyone been arrested yet? Most cable agreements do not allow for redistribution of their services. By connecting a router to a cable broadband connection you would be breaking this agreement. Plus everyone's address and location are published on the website for anyone to see. So the police and cable companies can find you easily. How about restricting the information to FON users only so prying eyes from the cable company can not gain access to your users.

# 3 | Sent by: Mike – Thursday, June 29, 2006 (14:50)

Which country would have you arrested for sharing a connection?

The worst that could happen is that you get a warning.

Unless you are a customer with an operator that condones this kind of behaviour, then nothing will happen.

# 4 | Sent by: Naseer – Thursday, June 29, 2006 (22:36)

What the point of being a bill, if Fon ships you a Dead on Arrival Router and it ont even turn on and no one answers you email. Martin needs to do something about that before allowing bills to sign up.

Note I did recieve a doa router and no one as of yet that I have contacted has dealt with the problem as I do not want to be charge money by fon because I cant activate a router that wont light up in the first place.

# 5 | Sent by: Rob Snyder – Friday, June 30, 2006 (18:54)

selling FON where u share your idle online time with others who want to leech off of you. When ur out ,u can offer the internet to passerbyers inthe street who have wifi andare members of the fon community GREAT IDEA!!
What about sharing phonelines? i pay to callout with skype but wouldnt it be great if icould meebo to a meenoer and then jump to his phoneline wher he pays unlimiyed local or national and make my callwithout anybody paying extra? acommunity where we share our IDLE phoneline time..the ptogram would carry u to a net to net connectioon with amember who offershis hr phone. The connectionwould be in that comuter...no going out of the net and paying the piblic jump from sim to ptsm?...it would happen beyween 2 members of meebo...Im steve marcus in spain..

# 6 | Sent by: ateve – Monday, July 3, 2006 (18:27)


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