Posts Tagged ‘FON’

Downgrading my Fonera

Ever since I received my Fonera 2.0n, I’ve been using it as the main wifi point at home because my Speedtouch has been playing up of late. However, it had one annoying feature that I suspect was a bug in the firmware I was using. Every time a computer connected...

FON raises $9.5 million

Just read that FON has raised more money to help it grow. Here’s the press release: Great news! We’ve raised another $9.5 million to grow the movement! We’ve got lots of great plans for the money. We’re going to Launch FON in Russia, launch the Fonera 2.0 (the fonera that...

FON-enabled highrise buildings

Reading the FON Blog, I’m seeing that they have finally managed to deploy FON across an entire high-rise building, in the Continental Diamond Plaza in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong. If you’ve never come across FON before, it’s a WiFi community where users share their Wifi, in exchange for free Wifi...

FONtastic voyage

I had blogged about FON more than a year ago and it’s great to see them grow from strength to strength. Today they’re in the news together with BT announcing a joint venture in a bid to penetrate the UK market. The details of the deal are still a bit...

FOn-tastic idea

Just got a great link from Andy’s blog, relating to a global shared WiFi community. Here’s the details: FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Share your WiFi broadband access at home/work and enjoy WiFi all over the world! FON: small cost, great benefit! To become a...

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