FON & BT together create the largest WiFi community

October 4, 2007 | Spark Clients

FON announced some super exciting news today! FON partnered with British Telecom (BT) to launch the largest WiFi community in the world: the BT FON Community. After today, the U.K. will be covered with hundreds of thousands of BT FON hotspots and now more than 3 million BT customers can join the enormous global community of people sharing their WiFi. Anyone joining in will be able to use all FON hotspots across the world and the new BT FON hotspots free of charge.

This is a pivotal turning point for the communications industry and a shift from the traditional view on sharing broadband connections. BT in the UK, Time Warner Cable in the U.S., Neuf in France, and Sistema in Russia support FON’s revolutionary model for a massive Wi-Fi community. Now these ISPs endorse the idea of safely sharing broadband connections and no longer impose regulations against it.

Check out Spencer Ante’s story on BusinessWeek or FON founder, Martin’s Varsavsky’s blog on the deal. You can also check out what FON can do for Muni WiFi in the San Francisco Chronicle.


- Alicia

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