FON news and press coverage September 6, 2006
Recently, you could read a lot about FON if you speak German. There was an article in Germans newspaper Die Zeit and an interesting interview with Martin Varsavsky in Der Spiegel. The Zeit article was basically an overall overview over the FON movement and company. In Der Spiegel Martin was asked about FONs return on investment as Google and Skype just invested $12 mill in February this year. He said right now FON is burning $500k above revenues per month with around 5000 paying members (Aliens). Martin estimates it requires around half a million hotspots to break even (operationally). He also announced the Skype phone router combination which will be launched around November for about $150 and the FON-Liberator, a de-luxe router if you will, featuring USB connectivity for use with external harddrives and MP3 player which will operate without the computer to be turned on (available later this year).
The European FON blogs have announced the arrival of the FON router "La Fonera" (see photo), hotspots in Madagascar, news on the upcoming portal software (we reported earlier) and 1000 day passes been sold.
- Posted in : WiFi Products, FON, Skype, Phones
- Author : admin
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