Posts Tagged with ‘fon’

Ever heard of FON? It?s a WiFi network, built, wonderfully enough, by individual consumers and small businesses in Europe and many other parts of the world.
It works on a tiered system of paid and free access. If people opt in to become a ?Fonero? and set up a FON account and hotspot of their own, they can get free access from any other FON hotspot in the world. If one doesn?t complete all aforementioned introductory steps, one can still [...]

FON made news recently with its jab at Starbucks’ WiFi biz. The Spanish success (it boasts the largest number of hotspots in the world) offered a free wireless router to anyone within the immediate vicinity of one of thousands of Howard Schultz’s establishments that had broadband Internet access. Such a move by anyone, in the US at least, would be a clear transgression against agreements made between consumer and ISP, but nevermind that. FON’s going full steam ahead, and it [...]