Comments on: 100,000 registered Foneros and 100K Foneras Ordered

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:04:18 +0000

the main bug we have is not that the SSIDs drop, when that happens it tends to be because we program the foneras not to show then when the ISP is not delivering internet signal. The main bug relates to MACs with Intel chips but that is not our bug and Apple is working on it.

By: Des

Des — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 18:57:35 +0000

What are the bugs mentioned in your posting ? I received a La fonera last week and my private SSID keeps on dropping (the public one isn’t all that constant).

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 20:56:38 +0000

Laurent,

I still have to understand if Free is really public. Can I use it if I am not a Free customer by paying? And why is Free a Linus and Neuf a Bill?

By: Martin Varsavsky

Martin Varsavsky — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:46:08 +0000

Is it hard to ship to south africa? We can send 500 foneras to somebody who wants to seed el movimiento there.

By: VIER

VIER — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 16:03:36 +0000

Dear Martin, If you include the option for shipping to BRAZIL, by the USPS(U$10.00 – U$15.00) it would go to increase the users here in the Brazil.

By: laurent pierron

laurent pierron — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:36:51 +0000

Do you know that the largest public WiFi network is Free (french Internet provider, remeber your Nokia E41) with 300k public access points all in France, but until now nobody has a phone to use the network, the first phones must be delivered this week.

Why did you make a partnership with Neuf, they don’t share your business model, Neuf is a “Bill”, Free is a”Linus” like you ?

By: Henk Kleynhans

Henk Kleynhans — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 14:09:17 +0000

Congratulations Martin!

When are you coming to South Africa to spread the magic further?

Henk

By: Jordi - Fon

Jordi - Fon — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:25:43 +0000

Thomas, even better than that, we not only want to add new features for new Foneras but we want to make sure the new features are programmed as patches so current Foneros are also able to add those new features to their already purchased Foneras. We want to make the Foneras “alive” and as “customizable” as possible.

By: martin varsavsky

martin varsavsky — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:35:52 +0000

Knadisson this is the eternal debate many more people who want to be foneros than people who actually are. And yes until January we will continue having a backlog of foneras, we send them as fast as we get them. But we are making 100K til then and 200K after then and then those organge points will become green and we will start marketing together with our partners and grow even faster.

By: greggles

greggles — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 04:41:44 +0000

Martin,

This is exciting news! Or is it? I wrote quite a bit on the subject so I posted it to my own blog. I welcome your response.

http://knaddison.com/fon/fonero-growth-800-routers-a-day-really