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Free FON WiFi routers for Scandinavia November 24, 2006

It's holiday season already for Swedish, Finish and Danish Foneros: FON announced yesterday to waive any fees on orders on La Fonera routers and offer the same promise-based deal as before in Germany and Austria. This is a €29.95 saving and valid until Christmas this year.

Ok, it's not the hottest news anymore as I was traveling with limited internet access but still I guess this is noteworthy. Skype has teamed up with FON to offer a WiFi phone/ La Fonera bundle thru their online shop. The package comprises the SMC WiFi phone (featuring computer-free Skype calls) plus the La Fonera for $159 (€139 or GBP 99). Both the SMC phone and the La Fonera are manufactured by Accton. Skype also throws in 500 minutes and a year of voicemail, at least a $30 value. Anyway you look at it you save big time if you are interested in either of the two products.

This week GigaOM spread the news of FONs purchase of Gspace, a Firefox extension that enables users to use their Gmail account for file storage (incl. a simple media player and photo browser). Om Malik was so kind to help out as Martin Varsavsky expected his fourth child (congrats, Martin!).

FON also announced their new router called Liberator which is basically a router you can connect an external hard drive to. The Liberator can be used to download files from the internet while you are not on your computer and then use those files (or files you uploaded) everywhere in the world. You could stream music and make it available to friends or everyone you are willing to share your login and password with.

Both products are also supposed to tie in with each other. Users can remotely access files from their Gmail accounts and move to a Liberator-connected hard drive or vice versa. There is a video about the Liberator (in Spanish) here. The device will be available in February 2007.

Hurry up, Germany: free routers up until Nov, 8th November 7, 2006

FON has continued their promised-based distribution of La Fonera for another 3 days until tomorrow, Wednesday November 8th. The price is still 0 Euros, shipping included. Also available in Austria.