FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free

What Company Is Offering:
FON is the largest WiFi community in the world. FON is a Community of people making WiFi universal and free. Their vision is WiFi everywhere made possible by the members of the Community, Foneros. They share some of their home Internet connection and get free access to the Community’s FON Spots worldwide.
How It Works:
Their Community WiFi router, La Fonera, allows everyone to share WiFi in a secure environment. It takes only five minutes to hook up, and then you’ve got WiFi at home and around the world for free!.

Foneros connect to thousands of WiFi FON Spots worldwide for free. If you still do not share your WiFi, you can purchase inexpensive access. Find FON Spots on our FON Maps.

FON is a Movimiento of people building a free, global WiFi Community, sharing our experiences and ideas.

Who Is Backing Them:


Martin Varsavsky Is CEO And Founder: Argentine entrepreneur and philanthropist, Martin is the founder of highly successful companies such as Viatel, Jazztel and Ya.com. Martin also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain and is President and Founder of The Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation, and was Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina up to 2005.

Jose Antonio Arribas

Jose Antonio Arribas: CTO, Chief Technical Officer. Jose Antonio has been an integral part of the development of the Internet in Spain over the last 10 years. For the past 5 years, he acted as Ya.com’s Technical Director. Previously, he had worked in Retevisión as head of the Systems Department during the launch of the Alehop portal. Jose Antonio began his professional career in 1996 at Servicom S.A., one of Spain’s first ISPs.
Diego Cabezudo

Diego Cabezudo: COO, Chief Operations Officer. Diego was formerly Strategy Manager at O2in Ireland, where among others was the Business Sponsor leading the launch of the 3G network and was responsible for the first commercial WiFi hotspots in Ireland. He has also worked in a cable operator (TeleCable) in technical, marketing and sales roles and in DMR/Fujitsu Consulting. Diego is a Telecommunications Engineer, holds an MBA from the London Business School, UK and Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, US and is a member of the IEEE. Diego also had some fun presenting a TV program in Spain, about Internet and new technologies.
More at:http://www.fon.com/