MuniWireless

Arezzo, Italy is working with FON to bring municipal Wi-Fi service across the city. Arezzo will install FON in strategic locations and encourage people to share their connections. Visitors and locals who are not Foneros can still access the network for free (for 15 min) by watching a 15 second ad or they can buy a daily pass for 3 Euros.

Arezzo is a beautiful, historic town in Tuscany which is very popular destination among people who are staying in Florence,…

I am a Fonero. I have a FON access point in my house in Amsterdam because I like to share my wireless connection. I have been a Fonero for several years, but when I travel, I don’t see a lot of Foneros around and that’s sad because the idea behind FON is that if I share my connection, I can find other Foneros willing to share theirs. So wherever I go in the world, I can get free Wi-Fi service.…

Brough Turner, chief technology officer at NMS Communications, recently drilled into the working paper from the New America Foundation,  Wireless Pittsburgh: Sustainability of Possible Models for a Wireless Metropolitan-Area Network . 

He criticizes the report, saying that in its analysis of sustainability it fails to mention “technology evolution or adoption rates of competing broadband services, i.e. cable and telco (DSL or FiOS).” He notes we’ve see Wi-Fi speeds rising as high as 100 Mbps in some of the products released  in advance of the IEEE’s adoption of…

Wefi, a company based in Mountain View, California, has just released software that enables people to find and connect easily to open Wi-Fi networks. The beta version can be downloaded from the WeFi website. Wefi, a company based in Mountain View, California with an R&D team in Tel Aviv, has just released software that enables people to find and connect easily to open Wi-Fi networks. The beta version can be downloaded from the WeFi website — use this code: 07ApM81D3.…

FON will partner with Time Warner Cable, allowing its 6.6 million high speed data subscribers to join the Spanish company’s world-wide Wi-Fi network.FON will partner with Time Warner Cable, allowing its subscribers to join FON’s Wi-Fi network.

Time Warner’s 6.6 million high speed data subscribers will be able to turn their home or office broadband connections into FON access points and receive free WiFi service from FON’s partner ISPs.FON claims it is the largest Wi-Fi network in the U.S. with 60,000…

FON, a wireless services company that sells (and often gives away) very cheap routers to allow people to share their Wi-Fi connections with others, has just announced that it is selling a new tiny wireless router called La Fonera for only ($5). Before that, they were virtually giving away Linksys wireless routers, which were not FON, a wireless services company that sells (and often gives away) very cheap routers to allow people to share their Wi-Fi connections with others, has…