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Thursday, January 26, 2006

FON USA Launch

Today I spoke at ETel about FON in America. I was only given 15 minutes and there is so much I wanted to say that I just didn't have time to.

For example, I didn't talk about the ability we are building into FON that will allow one FON hotspot to share documents, files, and bandwidth another FON hotspot nearby in a mesh manner.

I didn't talk about out commitment to bring Wi-Fi to communities that need it, places like Harlem in NYC and the less advantaged areas of Paris.

I didn't talk about the social networking component. The ability for each hotspot to have a home page that the user can personalize. So you can say "if you are in my neighborhood, check out this cafe across the street that has the best espresso in NYC!" And the ability for users to be able to send you thank you notes. This isn't in the system now, but its in the 6 month road map.

I also said that Martin laid down trans-atlantic fiber, I don't think thats true. But it is true that he laid fiber across europe.

Anyway, enough of my disclamer, why don't you listen to the FON USA launch yourself.

Christine Herron, Stuart Henshall at SkypeJournal and Alec Saunders blogged about the talk.

 

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Welcome/Bienvenidos to the USA,

Here in the digital media industry we are following FON with great enthusiasm, this is going to be big!

By the way, there is an interesting article on WiFi networks in the US switching from subs revenue to ads. Check it out here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20060130/1451228_F.shtml

Looking forward to hearing more about the FON advertures. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help in the meantime.

Cheers,
Juan Lopez-Valcarcel
Digital Media & Entertainment Consultant

# 1 | Sent by: Juan – Tuesday, January 31, 2006 (06:58)

Very simple question about FON's business model.Why should people share their own wifi access whereas some cities such as Philadelphia PA, Alburquerque NM or Alexandria VA are offering (or about to offer) public wifi access for free?

# 2 | Sent by: David Lemoine – Monday, February 6, 2006 (18:19)

Im looking forward to helping the US launch grow, I have just sighned up and am setting up 4 seperate hotspots in the plantation/sunrise florida area . If it looks like people will use this then Ill open up 4 more and take it from there. I think that this venture will realy give the people that need it a real boost. I look forward to helping my comunity and spreading the word of Fon

# 3 | Sent by: Austin – Tuesday, February 7, 2006 (15:04)


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