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FON

Just sat through a short presentation from FON.  FON has developed a downloadable ROM upgrade for WiFi routers that allows you to share your WiFi hotspot securely.  It’s a pretty interesting push.  What they’ve done is built a business model which allows you, if you wish, to charge for access to your router.  Or, if you wish to provide it for free, to be able to authenticate and use for free and FON hotspot.

I’ve been thinking about doing this at my house for some time.  Perhaps the time has now come.

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5 Responses to “FON”

  1. Ejovi Nuwere Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 1:29 am

    FON USA Launch

    Today I spoke at ETel about FON in America. I was only given 15 minutes and there is so much I wanted to say that I just didn’t have time to.

    For example, I didn’t talk about the ability we are building into FON that will allow one FON hotspot to …

  2. Alan Gahtan Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 9:11 am

    My concern though is that most small Internet customers have terms of service with their provider that prohibit resale of the Internect connectivity or the provision of access to third parties. FON itself probably doesn’t have much to lose if this should happen so its a good business model from their perspective. But not necessarily for their customers. Perhaps the contract terms are different in Spain or Europe where FON originated.

  3. Alec Says:
    January 26th, 2006 at 10:23 am

    Alan, I think the FON model might be tough for those who want to charge for access, for exactly the reasons you describe. My plan, personally, is to provision a FON hotspot for the use of my friends and neighbours when they’re at my place. I keep my wireless network secured tightly. FON says their software can separate my secure network from unsecured WiFi bandwidth. That will solve te problem.

    I’m not sure if that violates the TOS I have with my provider, nor do I particularly care. I don’t see them coming after me over casual use.

  4. Alan Gahtan Says:
    January 27th, 2006 at 7:38 am

    I misunderstood. Sounds like it would be a good solution for what you want to do.

  5. fonero Says:
    January 28th, 2006 at 8:19 am

    http://del.icio.us/foneros

    there you may find a lot of links. concering the project.

    greetings from europe

    g.

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