{"id":817,"date":"2007-06-07T23:08:09","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.1.2\/en\/?p=817"},"modified":"2007-06-07T23:08:09","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T21:08:09","slug":"fon-is-installing-more-hotspots-than-all-the-telcos-of-the-world-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"FON is installing more hotspots than all the telcos of the world combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cim.pennnet.com\/display_article\/294562\/27\/ARTCL\/none\/none\/Wi-Fi-hotspots-to-increase-by-nearly-25-'07,-finds-ABI\/\">This article<\/a> says that ABI research forecasts that by the end of 2007 there will be 179,500 hotspots around the world.  They forget to count FON Spots.  <a href=\"http:\/\/Fon.com\">FON<\/a> has around 140K WiFi hotspots now and we should have around 300K by year end.  Maybe more.  And now that we have introduced the La Fontenna, our coverage which has certainly been one of our weaknesses, will greatly increase.  By the end of 2006 FON became the largest WiFi community in the world.  By the end of 2007, we will be larger than all of the other networks combined.  And all with the same software, in open source and ready to receive developers apps.  If you have a cool app that you would like to make part of FON please <a href=\"mailto:martin@fon.es\">send me an email<\/a> and I will forward it to the right teams.<\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=817\" 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>This article says that ABI research forecasts that by the end of 2007 there will be 179,500 hotspots around the world. They forget to count FON Spots. FON has around 140K WiFi hotspots now and we should have around 300K by year end. Maybe more. And now that we have introduced the La Fontenna, our [&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\/817"}],"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=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}