Neuf Cegetel, a French telecommunications company, has acquired Ozone, a Wi-Fi operator. Ozone has hotspots all over Paris and reportedly covers 65% of the city. Neuf Cegetel, a French telecommunications company, has acquired Ozone, a Wi-Fi operator. Ozone has hotspots all over Paris and reportedly covers 65% of the city. They are expanding their Wi-Fi footprint in Rennes and Brussels.
Ozone offers users free Internet access if they mount a Wi-Fi node on their roofs. Others pay 18 EUR per month, 7 EUR per day or 1.5 EUR per hour.
Rafi Haladjian, founder of Ozone (he has another company that sells the famous Wi-Fi bunny Nabaztag), says that Neuf is interested not in Ozone’s users but in the Ozone almost-citywide Wi-Fi infrastructure and in creating applications that take advantage of mobile broadband, in competition with the cellular operators. Click here to read the rest of the interview (in French).
Indeed one of the first services that Neuf will offer is near-citywide voice over Wi-Fi through its Twin Wi-Fi GSM phone.
Neuf Cegetel already offers triple play service: high speed broadband for 29.95 EUR (20 Mbps), HDTV and video on demand, and VOIP. Click here to see the offers.
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