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Happy birthday, FON! December 4, 2006

These days, Fon has turned one and we want to congratulate to a great year of success. Despite the ethernal dispute on how many hotspots are really accessible or not, we think FON has been able to make some impact on the entire WiFi scene. There are more and more me-toos showing up (yes, FON itself is also a mee-too, if you insist) but still, FONs figures are impressive:

160.000 hotspots worldwide (active and temporarily passive ones)
more than 15.000 La Fonera routers ordered in Germany and Austria alone (half of which already delivered)
hotspots available in about 69 countires worldwide
cash-burn rate of about $600.000 per month

It looks like they can match their goals and if they really break even as of 500.000 hotspots, they might be around for a while. Hope you had a great party!

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1. freechelmi - December 15, 2006

Yeah , it’s a pity we don’t know how many hotspots active there is really , I would have said around 20000 thousands nodes actives and 160000 foneros.

How did you get this number ?sniffing the Ajax flow ?

2. admin - December 15, 2006

Hi freechelmi,

I have most of those numbers from heise.de, a German tech website. Sorry, I should have linked it.

Happy holidays………Olaf

3. jerry - December 20, 2006

Hi
Would you PLS give more information about those, thanks!

4. Olaf Kreitz - December 21, 2006

Jerry,

I am happy to help but could you be more precise. What exactly would you like to have more information on? My sources are mostly Martin Varsavskys blog, the FON website and here I also used some numbers from this article (in German): http://tinyurl.com/y2ob9l

Happy holidays……….Olaf

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