A buddy of mine just sent this to me - FON is attempting to build the world's largest WiFi network by selling a router that splits a broadband internet connection into two wireless signals, one private and one public. The public signal essentially acts a hotspot - owners of the router choose wheter to make the connection available for free or for a small charge ("the linuses" vs. "the bills" in Fonero speak, clever). The company's goal is 1million "hotspots" by 2010. User generated hot spots - brilliant! (ahh no more user-generated anything, please!)
Apparently I missed the big hoopla over the 10,000 free routers they were giving away. Bummer. Let's see if I can convince Lisa to get one anyway. This is cool.
http://www.fon.com/en/
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