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FON sounds great, but will it work?

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

It’s nice to hear that FON, the share-your-Wi-Fi network founded by entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, has gotten an investment from Google, along with Skype founders Niklas Zenstrom and Janus Friis - but while that is a huge vote of confidence, it doesn’t remove some of ... Continue reading »

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  • mathew,
    i share your skepticism. VC gone mad again...
  • On the other hand, if I had as much money as the Skype guys and that guy from Index Partners, I might figure blowing $12-million or so was chump change :-)
  • I would imagine they will do something more on the lines 2hotspot.com. A downloadable software that runs on Windows just like Skype. But Fon runs only on Linksys routers that are no longer manufactured.
    They need a quite a large Linksys user base to this working...

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