Jumps into bed with Macdonald Hotels BT Openzone's wireless internet access will soon be available in 4500 more hotel bedrooms, thanks to a just-done deal. Macdonald Hotels & Resorts has signed up to the BT scheme and will offer the Wi-Fi in all its properties across the UK by the end of 2009. This means BT's 4.8 million broadband customers including those with inclusive BT FON Wi-Fi minutes,...
It’s been a while since we talked about FON and its Fonera routers. Luckily, a couple of recent video clips of the Fonera 2.0n in action has prompted me to re-examine the current offering. For those unfamiliar, the FON Wi-Fi network consists of routers purchased by users like me an you who share their broadband connection [...]
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HandyWi is a software for helping Nokia E72’s user to find and connect to any hotspot connection; WLAN 802.11a/b/c/g including WISPr. HandyWi enable to connect to WiFi networks such as BTOpenzone, FON, Golden WiFi, Orange, The Cloud, Japan Telecom, AT&T, KPN and others providers. Actually there are two kinds of HandyWi, connection manager and Landmarks. But, I will outline about connection...
The long awaited WiFi P2P has been announced. This is how Om Malik describes it. The Wi-Fi Alliance today issued a new standard to augment Wi-Fi, called Wi-Fi Direct, that turns a Wi-Fi chip into a mini access point. The technology allows your Wi-Fi gadgets to talk to one another without having to get on [...]
Here's an interesting press release from FON, the company behind the FON hotspots that help you share your Wi-Fi Internet connection at home in exchange for free access around the world when you encounter another FON hotspot. In their quest to increase the number of FON hotspots, they have in the past already partnered with DSL providers in France and the UK to include their software in their home...
The world’s largest WiFi community with more than 700,000 hotspots, FON has launched its new innovative WiFi router – Fonera 2.0n, which features Wi-Fi 802.11n wireless technology that transfer files at up to 300 Mbps, allowing users to upload and download files to their favorite Web 2.0 services including YouTube, Facebook, Picasa, Flickr and RapidShare [...] [ This is a content summary...
Apart from writing on the Indian Telecom space, I like innovation and here is one such product that makes me write about it with a WoW feeling. At first in 2006, Fon / Foneras[ WiFi Spot] was to have FREE WiFI network. The startup is backed by Valley’s most innovative company – Google. I have version [...]
FON released its most innovative WiFi router yet, the Fonera 2.0n. Furthermore, it announced that its international WiFi network, the world’s largest, surpassed 700,000 hotspots. Besides several new features, Fonera 2.0n allows users to up and download files to their favorite Web 2.0 services with their computer turned off. Fonera 2.0n is now available in [...]
The idea of sharing your wireless connection with other users certainly has some people a bit hesitant, especially when it comes to the security of the whole deal. I wouldn’t want anyone snooping around on my hard drives. But if the people at FON have their way you’ll be able ...
The new Fon Fonera 2.0n router is finally official, bringing 802.11n Wi-Fi speed to your network of computers. Owners will be able to work with the Fonera 2.0n router pretty quickly, where they can be up and about uploading content to Facebook, Flickr, Megaupload, Picasa, RapidShare and YouTube among others even when the relevant computer is turned off. Apart from that, you can use it to download...
MADRID and SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- FON today released its most innovative WiFi router yet, the Fonera 2.0n. Furthermore, it announced that its international WiFi network, the world's largest, surpassed 700,000 hotspots.
A deal has recently been signed by Fon, the hotspot sharing community, to allow GSM cells to be fitted into Fon wireless broadband hotpots by Ubiquisys, as long as a network operator can be found that will allow them to do this. Obtaining a broadband connection using each others hotspots is something Fon users are already [...]
(Telecompaper) Wi-Fi network Fon is partnering with Ubiquisys to develop a system of sharing capacity on femtocells. Fon already offers its members who share their Wi-Fi connection access to a global network of community hotspots, and is looking to expand the same system to femtocells deployed by mobile operators. Community members, or Femto Foneros, would experience femto-quality voice and mobile...
BT’s wifi network has reached half a million hotspots. Fon has made a major contribution toward its growth, since about 90% of the BT hotspots are BT Fon. The rate of growth is such that, together with BT, we are on the way to one million hotspots. This is the goal for February 2010. With this [...]
After months of fervent planning and waiting by the increasing number of Foneros, the community dedicated to wireless connectivity created by the Spanish social FON gives now a welcome to the new entry of La Fonera 2.0, the new router’s wireless, enhanced by increasingly broad compatibility with many web based services and with usb 3g air cards
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