Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Join FON, get a free router
Remember the good old days of 1999? When we were just getting used to the idea that the Web made stuff so easy that lots of things could be free? Ha ha ha, two gigabits of email storage free? Photosharing free? International phone calls free? New York Times columnists free? AOL service free? Copyright music free? Whodathunkit.
Now, as the price of a terabyte disk drive falls below $500, Martin Varsavsky, the founder of FON, invites us to party like it's 1999. He invites all who want to synch up with FON to get a free FON router, just click here.
FON is free to you everywhere in the world if you sign up as a Linus. On the other hand, if you hate free, you can still sign up as a Bill and dream of the money other folks will pay you for access to your hotspot. (Alternatively, if you REALLY LOVE free, you can bypass FON and go straight to WiFi Liberator.)
Even if you have no FON router yourself, you can use any FON hotspot you find for a mere fraction of the price many hotels and airports charge. (Can you believe it cost me 29.95 Euros a day in the Mercure Hotel in Munich to use the Wi-Fi a couple weeks ago? Can you believe I paid?)
Sorry, "mere fraction" is the best I can do, even though I am a Compensated FON Advisory Board Member -- I've heard two bucks and three bucks a day -- even four or five -- bandied about. I'm not BizDev, and I'm not privy to all the great deals FON is doing, so I am not sure where FON stands at the moment. In any case, I've advised FON (and FON has advised me) that it'll be lots less than 30 Euro!
Now, as the price of a terabyte disk drive falls below $500, Martin Varsavsky, the founder of FON, invites us to party like it's 1999. He invites all who want to synch up with FON to get a free FON router, just click here.
FON is free to you everywhere in the world if you sign up as a Linus. On the other hand, if you hate free, you can still sign up as a Bill and dream of the money other folks will pay you for access to your hotspot. (Alternatively, if you REALLY LOVE free, you can bypass FON and go straight to WiFi Liberator.)
Even if you have no FON router yourself, you can use any FON hotspot you find for a mere fraction of the price many hotels and airports charge. (Can you believe it cost me 29.95 Euros a day in the Mercure Hotel in Munich to use the Wi-Fi a couple weeks ago? Can you believe I paid?)
Sorry, "mere fraction" is the best I can do, even though I am a Compensated FON Advisory Board Member -- I've heard two bucks and three bucks a day -- even four or five -- bandied about. I'm not BizDev, and I'm not privy to all the great deals FON is doing, so I am not sure where FON stands at the moment. In any case, I've advised FON (and FON has advised me) that it'll be lots less than 30 Euro!
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