Comments on: Fon Inks Deal With British Telecom

By: Fon Wants Residents of San Francisco’s Castro District to Share Their Wi-Fi

Sat, 17 May 2008 07:24:13 +0000

[...] scheme has recruited over 635,000 users in Europe, Asia and America despite the bans many ISPs place on sharing internet connections. Fon is conducting this San Francisco effort with [...]

By: www.teletubis.info » Blog Archive » Fon Raises Another $9.5 Million In C Round

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:52:37 +0000

[...] in a C round led by Coral Capital Management. Also investing was British Telecom (which struck a distribution partnership with Fon last October), Google (a previous investor), investment bank Allen & Co., founder [...]

By: Fon Raises Another $9.5 Million In C Round

Fon Raises Another $9.5 Million In C Round — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:52:09 +0000

By: FONtrepreneur: Program Failure

FONtrepreneur: Program Failure — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:18:01 +0000

[...] More about Fon at BusinessWeek and Techcrunch. [...]

By: Technology Media Telecom

Technology Media Telecom — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:13:57 +0000

I’m not sure if FON is a viable business model. Regardless, perhaps the more interesting storyline is BT making the commitment to experiment with new applications.

As an incumbent Telco, they’re one of the more forward-looking broadband service providers. The separation of the retail and wholesale channel seems to be working for them, and their customers.

By: phenom

phenom — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:18:45 +0000

I have hearing this for such a long time….looks like it is really a hype

By: Stephen Lev

Stephen Lev — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 14:13:29 +0000

FON is pure hype. No one runs these hotspots and WiFi wants to be free. They basically took the money from VCs and gave it too Cisco to buy APs and gave those away. More than half of those are not alive anymore. Heh.

Like poster #2 says, write a real story on them. Enough of this BS.

By: doh

doh — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:30:56 +0000

that 190K number is plain bullshit, just plug on to Fon and youll see that not even a 1% os those hotspots are functional. 190K maybe is the number of linksys routers they bought with Google and all those VC’s money and gave out mostly for free. FON is just vaporware, it’s about time decent and serious websites like Techcrunch make a real comment about FON and not just PR hype/bullshit.

By: Boris

Boris — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 12:29:36 +0000

I still wonder how FON could ever become popular. 99% of homes just aren’t interesting as a hotspot. 190.000 seems like a great number but not if those hotspots are all hidden and in practice only available to one person who installed it.