The agreement between Fon and Boingo is great for Bill Foneros
I am happy to announce that Fon has made an agreement by which Boingo customers can roam into Fon hotspots. With this agreement by which Fon will share 50% of the proceeds of the payments from Boingo customers with Bill Foneros (I will soon disclose how much these are), Bill Foneros will make more money with their Foneras (wifi routers). If you are a Linus Fonero and would like to benefit from this agreement you simply need to go to our web site and change your status to Bill. If you do not change your status Boingo customers will not be able to roam in your Fonera.
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Posted by fonero - May 26, 2007 9:37 am - #
So, how a Boingo customer who discovers a FONspot get the knowledge wether this FONspot is roamable (as a Bill ore not (as a Linus), because they are NOT distinguisable form outside yet, aren´t they?
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - May 26, 2007 1:26 pm - #
The boingo maps will show bill foneros.
Posted by fonero - May 26, 2007 3:33 pm - #
But if a Boingo user aproeaches a Linus HotSpot, won’t he still be able to connect to it? As far as I’m concerned the access pages look exactly the same on both… And Boingo says its users have 130K new hotspots… Which accounts NOT only for the Bills.
Posted by Gabriel Berg - May 26, 2007 4:42 pm - #
May 25, 2007
Dear Mr. Varsavsky,
I arrived today for a 1-week stay at the Montefiore Hotel, Italy and attempted to purchase an alien log-in. I was not able to do so. Is this something that you can fix for me?
gabrielberg42@hotmail.com
Posted by Andreas - May 27, 2007 10:46 am - #
I would even have no problems if boingo customers would use my (Linus) Hotspot. I think it is a bad idea to seperate the FON hotspots in terms of functionality (here you can access the FON_xy, there you can’t)
Only if a company with a similar model to FON (free access for part of it user population) I would expect to have access to their complete network.
Otherwise, FON may make money with my hotspot (as you do already) and I have access to all of FONs Hotspots in turn.
It would be even better if Boingo was offering a discounted rate for FONeros for their hotspot network.
Andreas
Posted by steven - May 27, 2007 11:49 am - #
Spotigo only reports 400 fon hotspots in Belgium, while fon maps tells me there are 767…
Does Spotigo only show BILL hotspots as well?
or is one of the Wifi directories failing?
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - May 28, 2007 4:04 pm - #
Andreas, thanks for your opinion, I will also post your reply in my Spanish blog if you don´t mind.
Posted by Martin Varsavsky - May 28, 2007 4:06 pm - #
Steven,
We still have not segmented fonspots reports into bills and linuses.