| Date | Title | Description |
| 29.01.2015 | Andrew Leigh: Sharing the benefits of “the sharing economy” | With nothing but a smartphone, I can order up an Uber car to whisk me to my next meeting or find a bargain bed for the night through AirBNB. If I lived in one of the major United States cities, I could also tap on an app to hire a pair of s... |
| 09.10.2014 | Customers to provide the hotspots in Telstra’s new Wi-Fi plan | Telstra’s plans to rollout Australia’s largest Wi-Fi network over the next five years involves asking existing customers to allow part of their broadband connection to be used as hotspots.
More than two million new hotspots are planned as p... |
| 07.03.2014 | Mobile World Congress 2014: A Deep Dive Into Our Digital Future | MWC 2014 ended about a week ago and I thought it’s appropriate to share some things that I saw, heard, and read during this event. It was also my fourth year attending this event, always with high expectations. To the point; although it’s c... |
| 20.01.2014 | Fon raises $14 million from Qualcomm to boost sharing of Wi-Fi, music | Spanish Wi-Fi sharing company Fon has raised $14 million from Qualcomm Ventures.
It’s an indication that Fon’s collective approach to sharing bandwidth, while slow-growing, still has some attraction to investors — particularly a strategic i... |
| 20.01.2014 | Fon raises $14 million from Qualcomm to boost sharing of Wi-Fi, music | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Spanish Wi-Fi sharing company Fon has raised $14 million from Qualcomm Ventures.
It’s an indication that Fon’s collective approach to s... |
| 28.08.2013 | Free Zone crowdsources Wi-Fi to bring Latin America online (exclusive) | People in Latin America are coming online at rapid rates, but that doesn’t mean their connection is good. Movile’s Free Zone app is making Internet access more available and affordable to people across the continent by crowdsourcing Wi-Fi.
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| 28.08.2013 | Free Zone crowdsources Wi-Fi to bring Latin America online (exclusive) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
People in Latin America are coming online at rapid rates, but that doesn’t mean their connection is good. Movile’s Free Zone app is mak... |
| 04.03.2013 | Crowdsourced Wi-Fi Hotspot Provider Fon Partners With Deutsche Telekom To “Blanket” Germany With 2.5M+ Hotspots By 2016 | Fon, the crowdsourced wi-fi hotspot provider that uses technology allowing people to securely share their home broadband connections, has announced a partnership with German telco Deutsche Telekom to build what it’s calling the country’s la... |
| 22.02.2012 | Crowdsourced Wi-Fi Network Fon Passes 5 Million Hotspots Worldwide | When serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavky launched Fon in late 2005, his goal was to blanket the world with easily-accessible, crowdsourced Wi-Fi. While the service hasn’t quite made it everywhere yet, Fon has just announced that they now ha... |
| 28.09.2011 | How To: Check If Someone Is Using Your Wi-Fi | There are many reasons why you'd want to check if an unauthorized party is using your wireless network. It may be that you're experiencing a slower than normal Internet connection or you simply don't want anyone getting a free ride while yo... |
| 16.02.2011 | Fon raises $13.5 million in funding round led by Atomico to put the US in its sights | Fon has secured €10 million ($13.5 million) in a new funding round led by Atomico, the VC firm founded by Niklas Zennström, co-founder of Skype. The company markets wifi routers which turn domestic connections into a network of publicly acc... |
| 01.02.2011 | Fon ended 2010 with 3.35 million WiFi hotspots, €28 million in revenues | Fon, the WiFi network company backed by Google and Skype, says you can find 3.35 million Fon hotspots all across the globe these days. That’s impressive growth, which comes down to more to 200 percent year-over-year. Last time Fon shared nu... |
