Crowdsourced WiFi Network Fon Passes 5 Million Hotspots Worldwide
When serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavky launched Fon in late 2005, his goal was to blanket the world with easily-accessible, crowdsourced WiFi. While the service hasn’t quite made it everywhere yet, Fon has just announced that they now have over 5 million hotspots in operation across the globe. It’s a pretty impressive number considering that other big WiFi networks like Boingo advertise “over 400,000” hotspots in their network, but it’s made even more notable when you consider each of Fon’s hotspots is essentially a person who decided to share their own...
Published By: Tech Crunch - Wednesday, 22 February
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