Fiesta Fonera!
Today, Tuesday, June 12th the Fiesta Fonera starts. Here are three reasons to party.
First, the La Fontennas are available at our shop. They only cost 2 dollars/euros for good Foneros and 19.95 dollars/euros for everyone else and they boost the range of your La Fonera by 5 times. They are so good that some are already calling them Fonagras….
Second, FON is launching WiFiAds, our ad supported WiFi platform with a 5 cent revenue share per ad shown available to all Foneros. Yes, I know trolls, we copied this one from Google but then so what? They are our investors!
Third, all Foneros will be able to both roam and make money with their La Foneras. Yes, sorry Linuses in order to get this privilege you have to call yourself a Bill, but don´t worry, we won´t tell anybody.
Check out the details of this new offering in our new web site cause I know all this sounds too good to be true.
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Posted by Monica - June 12, 2007 9:16 am - #
This new web page design is soooo much cool! So much fun!! I love it!
Posted by molgar - June 12, 2007 10:14 am - #
And what makes a “good” fonero?
Posted by molgar - June 12, 2007 10:24 am - #
And BTW, is there any advantage now being a Linus over being a Bill? Because I don’t see any. In fact, Bills seem to be able to now do everything Linuses do, but moreover, they can earn money, so what would be the point on maintaining the Linus user type anyway?
Posted by Dario - June 12, 2007 10:29 am - #
What ais the requisite to be a good fonero and get the fontenna for 2 instead of 19?
Posted by Raul - June 12, 2007 12:42 pm - #
Hola Martin
I got the e-mail with the code to get La Fontenna for €2 but having problems to purchase it, when I go to the shop I get the error below, sometimes as soon as I enter the shop others when I add it to the basket, checkout, etc.
Tried with 2 PC and IE and Firefox with the same problem, been trying for over 1 hour.
“Error
We’re sorry, but an error has occurred while trying to process your request.
Please return to the FON Shop main page and try placing your order again.
Continue Shopping”
Posted by Tania - June 12, 2007 1:02 pm - #
Dear all,
We have sent emails to all those Foneros out there who are sharing their WiFi (those who have their La Fonera plugged in and online), offering them a La Fontenna for $/€ 2. If you are sharing your WiFi and have not received the email, please be a bit patient. We have been sending out thousands of emails, and there may be some delays.
Thanks
The FON Team
Posted by Auke - June 12, 2007 2:22 pm - #
I want to thank the FON company and mr Varsavsky for the 2 euro fontenna and WiFiAds!
Posted by Tania - June 12, 2007 2:23 pm - #
Hi Raul,
I work for FON, so I can help you out here. Due to literally thousands of simultaneous visits and purchases at http://www.fon.com, we have experienced some problems. Now everything is already solved. Please, try again.
Thanks,
Tania
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - June 12, 2007 2:46 pm - #
Sorry Raul, we will look into this.
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - June 12, 2007 2:48 pm - #
Elliot, I will have a Fon person contact you to try to understand. But we do know that we have this problem, the problem of the ghost fonspots, and we are trying to understand exactly why.
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - June 12, 2007 2:54 pm - #
Dario,
If you are, you will get an e mail. A good fonero is one who has left his/her fonera on for a certain amount of time. I don´t remember now how long.
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - June 12, 2007 3:03 pm - #
Molgar,
Exactly, it is much better to be a Bill now. But still some people don´t care about money, and they can still be Linus. Many people could make money with AdSense in their blogs. And they don´t.
Posted by Auke - June 12, 2007 3:20 pm - #
Martin,
The WiFiAds is a great thing, but I suggest to change the verification method for aliens to use the 15 min free internet p/d. It is quite easy to change a MAC address.
Furthermore who is legally responsible for the content download/upload by aliens? The FON member or the unknown alien?
Like to hear your responds by mail or board.
Thanks,
Auke
Posted by Euronerd - June 12, 2007 3:34 pm - #
Molgar
Some people would love to be a Bill, but feel the contract with their ISP forbids reselling bandwidth.
Possibly giving it for free is no problem and they are happy to be a Linus.
Out of solidarity, FON(eros) could reward Linus’s some other way.
Posted by ddluk - June 12, 2007 5:27 pm - #
Hi Martin,
Some time ago in Malaga Fonero topic in comment you write that you will send mi the La Fontanna for free but that was the last message that I get from you. I’ m still waiting for information when you send me it
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - June 12, 2007 5:29 pm - #
Auke,
Foneros are protected on anything that happens over the Fon SSID. Foneros use MY PLACE to connect themselves and we have proof that it was not them who connected. We have no info of what they do over MYPLACE with a WPA key but we have all info of what goes on through the public channels and can share it if presented with a court order.
The Alien would be responsible for any activities he/she performs
Posted by Jaime - June 19, 2007 12:04 pm - #
Hi Martin,
it’s the first time I write to you and I want to make my congratulations toyou and to everybody who works with of for FON…
in these day I should study but I am spending a lot of time around fon blogs…
I just wanted to ask you if you can remember of find somewhere the right time I had to get my Fonera online to have the mail to get the Fontenna for 2 euros…
I am sharing my dls connection since 1 month and maybe 1 or 2 weeks more, but I would be happy to increase my wifi signal because I live near a park…anyway I have no problems with connection in my house and my fonera is always on!!!
Thank you very much