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Share WiFi at home… Enjoy WiFi everywhere. Our Vision. Build a WiFi nation by linking existing WiFi access points into a single unified Global Community. What is FON?.
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Share WiFi at home… Enjoy WiFi everywhere
Our Vision Build a WiFi nation by linking existing WiFi access points into a single unified Global Community
What is FON? • FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Foneros share their WiFi broadband access at home and enjoy WiFi all over the world! • FON aims to become the largest WiFi community by the end of 2006 and cover the developed world by 2010 • FON drives additional revenues to ISPs through revenue sharing and allows partner ISPs to differentiate from their competition • FON members, or Foneros, open their home WiFI to other Foneros, allowing them to access free WiFi whenever they are in reach of another Fonero • FON’s Community will allow anyone to access their favorite applications, such as Skype or Google Maps, on any device anywhere at anytime
Who is FON? • Founded: November, 2005 • Funding: $21.7 million from Skype, Google, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital • Reach: 56 countries and growing • Headquartered: Madrid, Spain • Number of employees: 20 • Founder and CEO: Martin Varsavsky • Board of Directors: • Martin Varsavsky, FON • Antonio Fuentes, CFO FON • Niklas Zennstrom, Skype • Mike Volpi, Cisco • Danny Rimer, Index Ventures
FON Leadership Martin Varsavsky, Founder and CEO. Martin is a prolific entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Jazztel, Viatel, Ya.com and amongst other companies. He also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid; is President and Founder of the Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation; and has been Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina, amongst being active in various other ventures. Martin received his BA from New York University and holds an MA in International Affairs and an MBA from Columbia University. Antonio Fuentes,CFO. Engineer and MBA, with extensive experience in the mobile and fixed telecommunications industry. Formerly COO Jazztel and ex-Vodafone Spain. Diego Cabezudo, COO. Engineer and MBA. Formerly Strategy Manager with O2, with wide experience in the mobile, broadband and WiFi telecommunications industry. Juantomás García, CTO. President of Hispalinux, Founder and CEO of Mono::Lab.
North American Fonero Leaders USA Ejovi Nuwere SecurityLab Named among 20 Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek North America Esther Dyson Release 1.0 and CNET CNET Editor and successful investor in emerging Technologies. David Weinberger Technologist Co-author of Cluetrain Manifesto Rebecca MacKinnon Harvard Berkman Center Global leaders of tomorrow, W.E.F. founder of Global Voices Jerry Michalski Sociate President and Founder David Isenberg Isen.com Ex-AT&T and author of “The Rise of the Stupid Network” Joichi Ito Six Apart One of the founders of the blogging phenomenon Andrew Rasiej NYC Public Advocate candidate Political and WiFi activist Ethan Zuckerman Harvard Berkman Center Founder of Tripod, top US blogger Wendy Seltzer Harvard Berkman Center Formerly, Electronic Frontier Foundation Dan Gillmor Journalist Author of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People"
SWEDEN Ola Ahlvarson Result.com Named one of top 10 European Internet entrepreneurs by The Wall Street Journal THE NETHERLANDS Bob Stumpel Result.com Amsterdam IRELAND Antoin O Lachtnain Eire.com ISRAEL Jonas Weil Result.com Tel Aviv European Fonero Leaders GERMANY Christiane Zu Salm Interactive 9Live Named one of the 25 future leaders of tomorrow by the Financial Times SWITZERLAND Bill Liao Finaxis AG, OpenBC SPAIN Antonio Saez Formerly COO Ya.com Alvaro Ibañez Microsiervos Jon Berrojalbiz Trading Motion FRANCE Yann Mauchamp OpenBC Jean-Bernard Magescas Municipal WiFi movement Tariq Krim Netvibes.com
MEXICO Eduardo Arcos ALT1040 JAPAN Joichi Ito Six Apart One of the founders of the blogging phenomenon Fumi Yamazaki Technorati Gen Kanai Technorati Héctor GarcíaTechnorati ARGENTINA MarianoAmartino Weblogs.com.ar International Fonero Leaders South America and Asia
Why FON ? • Broadband growth continues to grow • WiFi is rapidly disseminating • WiFi devices are rapidly proliferating • VOIP is becoming mainstream • Skype has 75 million members and is growing rapidly • Users want Internet everywhere
FON Members: Bills, Linuses and Aliens Linus: Share their WiFi hotspot and get free roaming on the FON Community Bills: Share their WiFi hotspot and get 50% of the revenue generated by aliens in their hotspot but pay for roaming Aliens: Customers who pay for access to the FON Community COMING SOON (not yet available):
How FON will Grow • Blogs and Word of Mouth: FON acquired 3,000 users in the first 90 days via word of mouth • ISPs: Through mutually beneficial partnerships with leading ISPs, FON will offer users unprecedented WiFi coverage • Hardware manufacturers: Already tightly partnered with Linksys to distribute FON-enabled routers, FON is rapidly expanding its universe of hardware partnerships • Web sites: FON will enter into partnerships with like-minded Web sites to promote its vision for universal WiFi
Easy Install Circuit Call • Foneros download the FON software to their computers and Linux-based routers • Software makes open WiFi safe for Aliens and Foneros and protects their router security • Only a 5 minute process Firmware update Dual-mode Terminal software router Fon access point
How it Works Mobile Core Network Circuit Call Aliens and Linus PSTN VoIP Provider Linus and Bills Aliens and Linus ISP Dual-mode Terminal Internet FON Radius authentication Aliens and Linus
Coverage Exists, but is Blocked • WiFi signals blanket metropolitan areas, but it is normally blocked and cannot be accessed easily • Hotspots are available but expensive and sporadic • By sharing existing but closed WiFi networks, coverage could be ubiquitous in cities Real example in a street in Madrid