Google, Skype ante up for global Wi-Fi network startup Fon.(Skype Technologies S.A.)

Online Reporter, The,  February, 2006  

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Google, Skype and other investors are putting $21.5 million into a new wireless Internet access network called Fon. (Oops, we thought Sprint had that moniker locked up by using FON as its stock market symbol).

Fon, founded by Spanish entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, plans to build a world network of over one million Wi-Fi hotspots in four years, far larger than those of any telco, whose largest is 30,000. In fact, Fon aims to exceed the 30,000 in its first year of operation. Fon's strategy is to get individuals and

businesses to make their hotspots available to the network in ...

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