{"id":214,"date":"2006-02-09T16:59:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-09T14:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=214"},"modified":"2006-02-09T16:59:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-09T14:59:27","slug":"dan-frommer-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=214","title":{"rendered":"Dan Frommer at Forbes, please be more patient!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just read Forbes<\/a> article on us. I understand Dan\u00b4s views but I am not sure he understands ours. When Dan contacted me I was on route from San Francisco to London where I recently landed only to see his article on line. I wish Dan Frommer was a more patient journalist and had given me 24 hours to reply.<\/p>\n

Dear Dan, I am the founder of three ISPs, Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com and believe me FON is not only not against the ISPs, FON is a boom for ISPs that will generate more broadband clients and more ARPU. FON invests in a wifi platform that is provided for free to ISPs so they can sell wifi roaming as a feature at no cost to them. And on top of that FON makes ISPs realize that they are seating on untapped potential extra revenue (payments from aliens) that we uncover and share with them. We know that some ISPs have terms of service that prevent users from becoming foneros. We do not want to encourage anybody not to respect these terms. We are instead working with ISPs so they endorse FON\u00b4s wifi roaming platform and then foneros sign up.<\/p>\n

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I just read Forbes article on us. I understand Dan\u00b4s views but I am not sure he understands ours. When Dan contacted me I was on route from San Francisco to London where I recently landed only to see his article on line. I wish Dan Frommer was a more patient journalist and had given […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fon"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t