FON, Time Warner Cable, deal
p2pnet.net news:- Slightly more than a year ago, Google, eBay’s Skype and venture-capital firms Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital paid $21.7 million for FON, a Spanish p2p Wi-Fi project, “looking like a kind of commercialized Semi-FreeWan,” said p2pnet at the time.
Under it, customers share their Wi-Fi Internet access at home and, in return, get free Wi-Fi wherever they find another Fonero.
Now, FON has signed its first major deal, and it’s with Time Warner Cable.
Here’s how FON explains things:
Most of us are Linuses. That means that we share our WiFi at home and in return get free WiFi wherever we find a FON Access Point.
Aliens are people who don’t share their WiFi yet. We charge them just €/$ 3 for a Day Pass to access the FON Community.
Bills are in business and so want to make some money from their WiFi. Instead of free roaming, they get a 50% share of the money that Aliens pay to access the Community through their FON Access Point. They can also advertise their business on their personalized FON Access Point homepage.
Time Warner wasn’t commenting on the new partnership, says CNET News, “but a company representative confirmed that it has signed a deal with FON.”
Details of how the FON/Time Warner partnership will be marketed are still being discussed, the story has Joanna Rees, ceo of FON USA, saying.
“For now, Time Warner will not sell or distribute the FON Wi-Fi routers directly to customers,” says CNET. “Instead, Time Warner’s subscribers will be able to sign up for the Wi-Fi service through FON.”
When FON kicked off, it was offering routers for a mere $5. These days, they cost $40.
Also See:
p2pnet – FON’s $5 Wi-Fi routers, June 27, 2006
CNET News – FON strikes deal with Time Warner Cable, April 23, 2007
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April 24th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
who will Warner -via their proxy RIAA- sue once one of those Wi-Fi guys use other altruistic guys internet accounts?
We all know, they sue you jsut because the “defendant was the account holder thru which plaintiffs copyrighted music was made available for millions of other account holders”
I wouldn’t want to risk to make deals with such companies like Warner and Co.
Stay away from those kind of companies at all cost. According to their logic having a wi-fi access point could mean your financial ruining!
April 25th, 2007 at 10:21 am
n/t
April 25th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
if you are wired they will of course affirm that when their expert looks at your HDD. But it will NOT help you agianst them. If they can’t find the songs on your HDD they claim it is not the HDD they want from you, or even more dangerous for you they accuse you of destroying evidence!
Best thing is to not have an internet connection or a computer at all.
No… wait!
They already sued people that did not own any computer. Yes they even admitted in their ISP-”pre settlement”-letter earlier this year, that they got names from guys that did not even had an internet connection at the time in question.
maybe best thing to do is google picture search for “vote from rooftops” and look up the business addresses of RIAA guys in google maps afterwards
April 27th, 2007 at 8:39 pm
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