Filed in archive Mobile Technologies by Editor on February 5, 2006

You remember Fon? I wrote about them here a couple of weeks ago. Well, someone must have read it because Google has now made its first equity investment, along with Skype and Sequoia Captial, to the tune of $21.7 million to support Martin Varsavsky's innovative model for sharing hotspots. Now, what would Skype and Google want with hotspots? Om Malik and his pals debate the pros and cons of Fon's emerging strategy -- including Fon now having the funds to pursue a strategy of selling their own plug-and-play routers if they so choose. Nationwide Wi-Fi voice network, anyone?

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Response from: Vinu (02/05/06 11:32pm)

you should read this article too:
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=363

btw - don't have the notify and subscribe to the newsletter checkboxes default! Last thing I need is to get spammed because I commented on this blog :-)

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Well not long ago I was musing about Fon as the new Skype and apparently someone at Skype wanted to have a piece of the action: "FON a wireless services company started by maverick entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky has just...

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