Comments on: Fon partners with E-Plus, the 18 million customer German Mobile Operator http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/fon-partners-with-e-plus-the-18-million-customer-german-mobile-operator.html Blog of an entrepreneur Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:31:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/fon-partners-with-e-plus-the-18-million-customer-german-mobile-operator.html#comment-263151 Martin Varsavsky Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:59:52 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=3095#comment-263151 Fon has found that the only way we grow very well is in countries where we team up with big telcos. We have to admit that user generated infrastructure took us 30% of the way. The remaining 70% is telco partnerships. This is a good lesson for start ups, collaboration with giants is slow but eventually it pays off. There has to be a reason as to why they are giants :) Fon has found that the only way we grow very well is in countries where we team up with big telcos. We have to admit that user generated infrastructure took us 30% of the way. The remaining 70% is telco partnerships. This is a good lesson for start ups, collaboration with giants is slow but eventually it pays off. There has to be a reason as to why they are giants :)

]]> By: Mariano Marcos http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/fon-partners-with-e-plus-the-18-million-customer-german-mobile-operator.html#comment-263150 Mariano Marcos Thu, 04 Jun 2009 08:45:53 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=3095#comment-263150 I'm focusing on smaller players for Vidactio (a solution for bringing the interactivity of the web to video content) and then grab the attention of the big players. I guess our size recommends that. And I guess that Fon's size recommends the opposite ! 18 million potential foneras is a great deal ! Above all if the conversion into customers is.... I don't know your forecast.... over 20% ?? Good luck (and work) in your future steps. I’m focusing on smaller players for Vidactio (a solution for bringing the interactivity of the web to video content) and then grab the attention of the big players. I guess our size recommends that. And I guess that Fon’s size recommends the opposite !
18 million potential foneras is a great deal !
Above all if the conversion into customers is…. I don’t know your forecast…. over 20% ??
Good luck (and work) in your future steps.

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]]> By: steven leeman http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/fon-partners-with-e-plus-the-18-million-customer-german-mobile-operator.html#comment-263136 steven leeman Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:52:45 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=3095#comment-263136 Great news!!! I hope this will also propagate to Simyo/Ay Yaldiz active in other countries ? BTW this is not unique... in 2007 FON & Debitel worked together as well... but Debitel got sold by KPN; the foneras active in the shops are since then "greyed" out and somewhere in central storage :-( Btw the Fonera 2.0 only supports Huawei 3G Usb sticks... it does not support other brands(eg Option) used by eg Vodaphone, T-Mobile, ... Great news!!!
I hope this will also propagate to Simyo/Ay Yaldiz active in other countries ?

BTW this is not unique… in 2007 FON & Debitel worked together as well… but Debitel got sold by KPN; the foneras active in the shops are since then “greyed” out and somewhere in central storage :-(

Btw the Fonera 2.0 only supports Huawei 3G Usb sticks… it does not support other brands(eg Option) used by eg Vodaphone, T-Mobile, …

]]> By: Martin Varsavsky http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/fon-partners-with-e-plus-the-18-million-customer-german-mobile-operator.html#comment-263135 Martin Varsavsky Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:50:59 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=3095#comment-263135 Well Symio has around 300K customers I believe, a good effort but Fon is focusing on the larger deals first. Having this we welcome Symio and making a deal with them. Coincidentally we have some very able former Fon employees work at Symio in Spain. Well Symio has around 300K customers I believe, a good effort but Fon is focusing on the larger deals first. Having this we welcome Symio and making a deal with them. Coincidentally we have some very able former Fon employees work at Symio in Spain.

]]> By: Mariano Marcos http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/fon/fon-partners-with-e-plus-the-18-million-customer-german-mobile-operator.html#comment-263134 Mariano Marcos Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:42:42 +0000 http://english.martinvarsavsky.net/?p=3095#comment-263134 Congratulations. Any future movements with other KPN companies like simyo in Spain? Congratulations.
Any future movements with other KPN companies like simyo in Spain?

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