{"id":656,"date":"2007-02-13T08:31:30","date_gmt":"2007-02-13T06:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=656"},"modified":"2007-02-13T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2007-02-13T06:31:30","slug":"usa-goes-back-to-number-one-position-at-fon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"USA Goes Back To Number one Position At FON"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.FON.com\">FON<\/a>, USA was our number one country, but it soon fell behind other countries, as far back as to position number 6 in the world, after Germany, Spain, Korea, Japan and France.  <\/p>\n<p>For a while we did not seem to find the right management, nor strategy.   But recently, thanks to the great job of our new US management team headed by our US CEO Joanna Rees, a proven entrepreneur involved with many companies, probably the most relevant being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Danger.com\">Danger<\/a>, and Faisal Galaria, our head of US biz dev, formerly at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Skype.com\">Skype<\/a>, USA is back at position numero uno with around 40K registered FONeros and around 20K Foneras ordered.  <\/p>\n<p>In March, we expect to be able to report that FON is the largest WiFi network in the States by number of locations.  Congratulations Joanna and Faisal, u rule!!!<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=656\" 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>When we started FON, USA was our number one country, but it soon fell behind other countries, as far back as to position number 6 in the world, after Germany, Spain, Korea, Japan and France. For a while we did not seem to find the right management, nor strategy. But recently, thanks to the great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}