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Martín Varsavsky and the people in Fon have the idea to build a community based, WiFi network.
This network will not just be for the road warrior needing WiFi access to reverse charges to the office.
It will also be a network where John can upload the photos from his wifi enabled digital camera, or play head-to-head […]

Antoin, Ireland’s Chief Fonero, has been in lovely Madrid all the week doin’ Fon stuff.
Yesterday he writes:
Martin wants to get 100 routers in busy locations where people congregate. If you have a cafe or a shop (especially in Ireland) follow up on this offer or get in touch!
So, if you run a busy shop or […]

This morning I had a nice surprise when I got a short e-mail from Damián Vila, a fellow Fonero, from Spain.
He sent me a link to his (unofficial yet excellent!) logos, badges, desktop images and screensaver (PC) he has made.
They are all absolutely excellent images, and definately could be used by the Fon guys.
I particularly […]

Antoin, Ireland’s Chief Fonero (at least it sounds better than Fon-ie!) is off in Madrid, home city to Fon.
Ireland now has 7 fonspots operational. As more and more people hear of Fon, more will come live.
All of the people who won a Fon router at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday, if you guys have […]

One application that would be very easy for a Fon Hotspot to carry out would be: temporary corporate Internet access, Internet access for visitors to offices, who want to check e-mail, browse the Internet, etc…
Simple sign-up form, gives them access when they come across another Fon Hotspot.
Of course, the best configuration for this would […]

So, I have been getting plenty of feedback from people about the Fon feature on TCal.net.
Lets hope they all transfer into new Fon access points becoming live!
Well, I have now archived the TCAL feature here also. To see it scoot on over here.

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[UPDATE]: I spoke just about 20 minutes too soon
The feature has been put live on TCal.
Please excuse my writing style…as anything to do with wireless/Internet gets me excited!
Many thanks go to Antoin O’ Lachtain, Ireland’s Chief Fonero for talking for the past few months with me, on actually where Fon is going!
Antoin is the […]

I had to sit on the information I received last week from Antoin, Ireland’s Chief Fonero. I thought it was on the national scale, but finding out, later…holy moly!
Martin Varsavsky has repleased the information: Fon have received €18M from Google, Skype, Sequoia Capital, and Index Ventures.
I will leave Martin’s post do the talking!
The peddle is […]




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