Last Spring we cut our burn rate at Fon. We reduced our head count from close to 100 to 60. It was painful. It was sad. But it had to be done, since then Fon has grown faster than ever. Not because the people we let go were not doing anything. Quite the contrary, they [...]

The BT FON Facebook application, called Battle of The Fans, is doing very well and is now one of the most popular UK focused applications, with over 31,000 users and more then 7,000 waves generated. It’s part of a very successful marketing campaign that started with The World’s Biggest Mexican Wave initiative.

From next year Chrysler, the third-largest automaker in the States, will provide most of their Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep models with a “uconnect” system that will give the vehicles a 3G cellular Internet connection shared throughout the car over Wi-Fi. This, as a similar service I reviewed last March, proves how WiFi keeps thriving as [...]

I’m very glad to announce BT FON, the WiFi community we built with BT, has now more than 100,000 members in the UK. This is a great confirmation of how FON is great for telcos and ISPs and how fast Fon can grow thanks to deals like the ones with BT, Neuf or the most [...]

I am glad to announce a FON has just signed an agreement with Comstar, the main telecom operator in Russia, a partnership similar to those we have with BT in the UK and in other countries with other operators. Comstar and FON will jointly develop a Wi-Fi internet access network in Russia, initially focusing on [...]

We are proud to announce that the BT FON Community we built with our partner BT is the winner in the Most Innovative Wireless Broadband category at the Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards 2008. Over 210 entries were submitted and just 7 winners were selected in 7 different categories: alongside BT FON, our friends at Fring [...]

Together with BT we created BTFon and we develop campaigns like this with Peter Crouch. In this video you can see the FON team doing the Mexican Wave… with a style of its own. What’s important with this is the great number of foneros we got thanks to BTFon. Unfortunately I can’t share how many [...]

FON Japan and Seven Seas Techworks, a company that develops interactive web services and content delivery platforms, are collaborating to provide an educational solution called “Student Pass for iPod touch” to universities in Japan. Students will get an iPod Touch to access content and services like their class schedule, study materials, attendance management system. They [...]

Journalists sometimes portray WiFi as the enemy of operator based mobile services.  But if you take a look at this email I got today from AT&T you will see that what we reply at Fon is true.  That mobile operators are concerned about apps that use a lot of data and prefer that traffic to [...]

Yesterday Fring released an iPhone version of its great mobile VoIP and Instant Messaging application. This is the first native application providing real VoIP on the iPhone, via WiFi, of course. Fring is compatible with Skype, MSN, GTalk, ICQ and Yahoo! and provides calling and messaging to your friends on these popular networks. It also [...]