FON: disruption rocks
5th of February,2006
‘Disruption rocks’
That’s the motto today at FON. We have done an announcement: Google, Skype, Indexventures, Sequoia capital, Janus & Niklas from Skype and some more people have invested in FON! 18M € (21.7M USD), not bad.
Google rocks: it has disruptive products, such as Google maps, Google pack, Google, Google, Google… quality becomes standard at Google.
Skype rocks: VoIP made easy, good quality and cheap! Another disruptive product.
And now it’s FON who is going to bring disruption to the Internet Cloud. FON will build a WiFi ’standard’. Anyone with a broadband connection at home will provide connection to the by-passers and will get connection everywhere in exchange. WiFi will never be a messy and anarchyc network again, where there’s no relation between one WiFi node and the other. I will become a global network, like taxis, like buses, like bars; you can find them in every city, in every country anywhere. But FON is for free!
Soon, in part thanks to FON, we will be able to have internet connection wherever we are. We will pay a monthly fee to our provider and will be allowed to use it all over the world.
Welcome to the FON era!
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Martin Varsavsky, FON president and CEO