Comments on: Blanquefort Becomes First FONero Town In The World http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html Blog of an entrepreneur Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Pete Thomas http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html#comment-1873 Pete Thomas Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:16:24 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=537#comment-1873 I live and work in Lisbon - the main obstacle here is that the ISPs still (Christmas 2006!) enforce low quotas on traffic of 4-10 GB/mth(some offer 20GB, but this is still low for sharing access) per month. This effectively shuts out the possibillity of sharing access. Does anyone know of any fat data pipes available in Lisbon? I have a great apartment (Alfama, just below the castle, so with potential connections to large sections of central Lisbon), strong willingness to become a Fonero (to improve wifi availability in Lisbon) and a budget of about EUR 100/mth. If someone can inform me about a decent Fonero-ready ISP in Lisbon, I'll happily become a Fonero! I live and work in Lisbon – the main obstacle here is that the ISPs still (Christmas 2006!) enforce low quotas on traffic of 4-10 GB/mth(some offer 20GB, but this is still low for sharing access) per month. This effectively shuts out the possibillity of sharing access.

Does anyone know of any fat data pipes available in Lisbon? I have a great apartment (Alfama, just below the castle, so with potential connections to large sections of central Lisbon), strong willingness to become a Fonero (to improve wifi availability in Lisbon) and a budget of about EUR 100/mth. If someone can inform me about a decent Fonero-ready ISP in Lisbon, I’ll happily become a Fonero!

]]> By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html#comment-1872 Martin Varsavsky Mon, 04 Dec 2006 12:56:23 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=537#comment-1872 Jorge, we must come up with a good strategy for Portugal I agree. We want to do a FONero promise campaign in Portugal but we have to find the best way to announce it. Jorge, we must come up with a good strategy for Portugal I agree.

We want to do a FONero promise campaign in Portugal but we have to find the best way to announce it.

]]> By: Jorge Silva http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html#comment-1871 Jorge Silva Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:30:03 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=537#comment-1871 Martin, I did hear about a FON meeting in Portugal a while ago. I wasn't there because I became a Fonero AFTER that. If I'm not mistaken, it was co-organized with a university, which seems to be the perfect compromise between a government institution and a community likely to take this project forward (ie. students). As I don't have any contact with any university - I did my studies abroad - I would suggest you to search for Foneros studying at one of the biggest universities - Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra - and ask them to propose the project to their directors. Another possibility is to get in touch with our Ministry of Science and Technology, sometimes they back up extremely interesting projects. And how about associating with spanish telecoms in Portugal? I remember, when I was abroad for studies, when I came to Portugal for vacations I've seen some ads for Jazztel. I haven't seen anything since then, but Portugal Telecom is losing the monopoly - it's lost long time ago because of their crappy service and high price rates - and there are LOADS of broadband ISP's in the market. I lost track of them already! Martin,

I did hear about a FON meeting in Portugal a while ago. I wasn’t there because I became a Fonero AFTER that. If I’m not mistaken, it was co-organized with a university, which seems to be the perfect compromise between a government institution and a community likely to take this project forward (ie. students). As I don’t have any contact with any university – I did my studies abroad – I would suggest you to search for Foneros studying at one of the biggest universities – Lisbon, Porto, Coimbra – and ask them to propose the project to their directors.

Another possibility is to get in touch with our Ministry of Science and Technology, sometimes they back up extremely interesting projects.

And how about associating with spanish telecoms in Portugal? I remember, when I was abroad for studies, when I came to Portugal for vacations I’ve seen some ads for Jazztel. I haven’t seen anything since then, but Portugal Telecom is losing the monopoly – it’s lost long time ago because of their crappy service and high price rates – and there are LOADS of broadband ISP’s in the market. I lost track of them already!

]]> By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html#comment-1870 Martin Varsavsky Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:26:42 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=537#comment-1870 Jorge, We want to do a fonero promise in Portugal within a Portuguese organization of people interested in the internet, who could they be? Jorge,

We want to do a fonero promise in Portugal within a Portuguese organization of people interested in the internet, who could they be?

]]> By: Jorge Silva http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html#comment-1869 Jorge Silva Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:41:48 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=537#comment-1869 This is something great. I can't express how happy I am for Blanquefort citizens... ... but I can't express either how sad I am to notice how slow people in Portugal are becoming foneros. I do try to tell people about Fon and the benefits not only for them, but for everyone (tourists, passers-by, ISPs, tech developpers) but somehow it's not really working. A government backed project would, of course, work so much better. Spain has thousands of foneros and APs everywhere, France too, unfortunately Portugal is and will always be the tail of Europe. Thank God Turkey is coming along, so that we won't be the last ones in the list... This is something great. I can’t express how happy I am for Blanquefort citizens…

… but I can’t express either how sad I am to notice how slow people in Portugal are becoming foneros. I do try to tell people about Fon and the benefits not only for them, but for everyone (tourists, passers-by, ISPs, tech developpers) but somehow it’s not really working. A government backed project would, of course, work so much better.

Spain has thousands of foneros and APs everywhere, France too, unfortunately Portugal is and will always be the tail of Europe. Thank God Turkey is coming along, so that we won’t be the last ones in the list…

]]> By: William http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html#comment-1868 William Wed, 29 Nov 2006 07:27:59 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=537#comment-1868 Hi Olaf, the Blanquefort project is not a "promise-based" deal. The City Hall of Blanquefort loves the idea of FON so much that they decided to buy 1,000 La Fonera routers that they will give as a Christmas present to ADSL subscribers living in Blanquefort who sign up on their website to join FON and share their WiFi.The City Hall will help the user install and register his La Fonera and make sure it is up and running. William (FON France) Hi Olaf, the Blanquefort project is not a “promise-based” deal. The City Hall of Blanquefort loves the idea of FON so much that they decided to buy 1,000 La Fonera routers that they will give as a Christmas present to ADSL subscribers living in Blanquefort who sign up on their website to join FON and share their WiFi.The City Hall will help the user install and register his La Fonera and make sure it is up and running.

William (FON France)

]]> By: Olaf Kreitz http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/blanquefort-becomes-first-fonero-town-in-the-world.html#comment-1867 Olaf Kreitz Tue, 28 Nov 2006 22:18:37 +0000 http://192.168.1.2/en/?p=537#comment-1867 Would you mind telling us whether this is a "promised-based" deal aka they got the La Fonera for free (like in Germany, Austria and Nordic)? Would you mind telling us whether this is a “promised-based” deal aka they got the La Fonera for free (like in Germany, Austria and Nordic)?

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