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Niklas Zennström
AS Profile He's also co-founded London-based VC fund Atomico Ventures, which put money into a wealth of other tech ventures including wi-fi sharing community FON and music discovery service Last.fm. Niklas Zennström is best known... [08 Oct 2009]
Starbucks drinkers get an extra shot at wi-fi
News Also customers of BT Openzone and BT FON will be able to go online at the Starbucks outlets, as will iPhone users on O2 and customers of BT's roaming partners, such as iPass and Boingo. BT has teamed up with ubiquitous... [21 Apr 2009]
BT's wi-fi router turns biz into hotspots
News As with all BT Openzone hotspots, those created using the new business hub are open to use by existing Openzone customers, BT Business customers with a mobile broadband service, and members of the consumer BT Fon... [10 Feb 2009]
Wi-fi fans clock up a million minutes online per day
News The figures include BT Openzone and the BT-FON community launched in October 2007, where members agree to share a small portion of their home broadband connection by opening up a separate channel on their wireless... [02 Dec 2008]
BT's wi-fi parts ways with The Cloud
News BT is claiming this shortfall will be mitigated by the roughly 140,000 users who opened up their routers into effective hotspots following BT's deal with the wi-fi-sharing community Fon. BT and The Cloud have had the... [30 Sep 2008]
Broadband Britain embraces wi-fi sharing love
News BT released the figures showing the number of people who have signed up to BT Fon, where customers share their broadband connection as a wireless hotspot. By sharing their own connections using their BT Home Hub,... [05 Jun 2008]
BT business hubs to be wi-fi hotspots
News However, unlike the residential programme, the business version will not utilise BT's partnership with FON, the global wi-fi shared-access service. FON's approach is to have users split their personal... [22 May 2008]
Poll: Wi-fi sharing not for everybody
News This goes against the spirit of community wi-fi sharing organisation FON, which recently linked up with BT to provide 'Foneros' in the UK with access to thousands of free wi-fi hotspots. Foneros are BT broadband... [15 Oct 2007]
Dear silicon.com... McInternet, FON in the UK, safety first, e-fraud...
Comment So how will the Polce now be able to discriminate between the legitimate FON users and those pesky unsecured Wi-Fi bandwidth stealers? BT gets into bed with FON What's got silicon.com readers reaching... [11 Oct 2007]
Leader: Is BT-FON deal a real mesh?
Leader Today BT teamed up with FON of Spain to launch something like that. The companies behind FON - Google, Skype, Index Ventures (of Skype and other fame), Sequoia Capital (too many tech successes to... [04 Oct 2007]
BT gets into bed with FON
News BT and FON have finally confirmed their long-expected tie-in, creating the largest wi-fi community in the world. FON was founded in Spain in early 2006. Broadband users who sign up to... [04 Oct 2007]
Free wi-fi to blanket San Fran?
News In this way, the concept is similar to a wi-fi service offered by the Spanish company Fon. While EarthLink and Google are still hammering out details of their citywide wi-fi contract with San Francisco officials, a... [15 Aug 2007]
BT looking to beef up its "wi-fi footprint"
News BT is refusing to comment on reports it is in talks with the Spanish wi-fi sharing network FON. Now, according to a Reuters article, the company is conducting secret negotiations with FON, a "community"... [06 Feb 2007]
ITU 06 diary - BT's bacon sock, mobile medicine and 3G backlash
Comment I also heard some interesting ideas from Martin Varsavsky, the entrepreneur behind FON, a company trying to convince individual wi-fi users to resell some of their connectivity to itinerant consumers and create a network... [07 Dec 2006]
