{"id":4289,"date":"2010-04-07T22:21:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2010-04-07T22:21:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T20:21:04","slug":"fon-hits-2-million-member-mark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4289","title":{"rendered":"FON hits 2 million member mark!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just four years ago, <a title=\"FON\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FON<\/a> was a small group of WiFi addicts with a simple  but ambitious goal, WiFi everywhere. Today FON  is the world\u2019s largest WiFi community. FON now has <strong>2 million  members<\/strong> and <strong>1.5 million active hotspots <\/strong>worldwide. For those <a title=\"FON Maps\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.fon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">looking  for WiFi<\/a> on the go that means you can connect to 950,000 hotspots in  the UK; 175,000 hotspots in mainland Europe; 50,000 hotspots in Japan  and 325,000 hotspots across the rest of the globe, thanks to FON.<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s just the beginning! Our user-generated WiFi network keeps  on growing. We expect FON hotspots to more than triple in 2010. This  gives everyone a lot more WiFi to look forward to and plenty of reason  to celebrate.<\/p>\n<p>In the UK, where open WiFi is illegal, we would like to point out  that FON is legal and operates together with BT. The <a title=\"BT FON\" href=\"http:\/\/www.btfon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BT FON<\/a> network is the  largest in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Fonera, FON\u2019s innovative WiFi router and your ticket to free WiFi, is  available from the <a title=\"FON Shop\" href=\"https:\/\/shop.fon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FON shop<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>FON data from Q1 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Original post on the <a title=\"FON Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.fon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FON blog<\/a>. Read also &#8220;FON reaches 2 million members,&#8221; by <a title=\"TelecomPaper\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telecompaper.com\/news\/article.aspx?cid=727306\" target=\"_blank\">TelecomPaper<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=4289\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just four years ago, FON was a small group of WiFi addicts with a simple but ambitious goal, WiFi everywhere. Today FON is the world\u2019s largest WiFi community. FON now has 2 million members and 1.5 million active hotspots worldwide. For those looking for WiFi on the go that means you can connect to 950,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3207,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}