With the recent purchase of InterDigital's XCellAir, European managed Wi-Fi company Fon seeks to help network operators capitalize on their Wi-Fi presence in residential homes -- and get a foothold in the U.S market while they do so.
XCellAir focuses on cloud-based quality of experience...
At Fontech, we’re continuing to pursue our goal of providing CSPs with the state-of-the-art technology they need to differentiate from competitors and improve the experience of their subscribers.
Our latest launch is Fontech’s Home WiFi Solution which empowers operators to optimize and control their subscribers’...
Carrier Wi-Fi provider Fon has partnerships with a number of global carriers that enable it to create global Wi-Fi networks and help operators deliver Wi-Fi services.
RCR Wireless News caught up with Fon COO Enrique Farfán for a Q&A on trends in the Wi-Fi market:...
Data traffic is expected to grow sevenfold by 2021 according to the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index (VNI) report, driven by the continued increase in the number of smartphone users, widespread use of mobile applications, network speed improvements, massive mobile video consumption, and internet...
Wi-Fi network provider IPass, continuing on its growth arc, this week expanded its relationship with Deutsche Telekom to allow Deutsche's enterprise customers to access the IPass network of more than 20 million Wi-Fi hot spots around the world.
Deutsche Telekom VP of business Hans Panse...
Wi-Fi hot spot deal targets the Wi-Fi-first business user
The race to provide ubiquitous connectivity to data-hungry users regardless of location continues with the two largest Wi-Fi hot spot network providers announcing a partnership to expand the global footprint.
Network provider iPass on Nov. 2 announced...
Global Wi-Fi sharing network company Fon has just completed a $14 million round of funding. Qualcomm Ventures, Qualcomm Inc.'s venture capital arm led the round; it is already a significant investor in Fon.
Fon said it is in the process of developing a new router...
Sprint Nextel Corp. has proposed a reported $57.5 million settlement to a lawsuit bought by shareholders who claim the carrier cut them out of billions of dollars when it combined its wireline FON and wireless PCS stocks in early 2004.The Associated Press reported that...
Madrid, Spain-based "social router" company FON announced it has given away 7,000 routers in its Fonbucks campaign designed to encourage people living next to a Starbucks Coffee Co. location to provide free or inexpensive Wi-Fi services. FON said it ended up giving away 5,000...
Time Warner Cable has partnered with Spanish-based hotspot company FON to offer its subscribers access to any of FON's 60,000 Wi-Fi hotspots scattered throughout the country.Interestingly, those FON hotspots are actually managed by FON community members who share their unused bandwidth via a FON...
Venture-capital funding is in the air. No less than four wireless companies announced new infusions of cash for their burgeoning endeavors in the industry:. Xtract announced it received more than $2.6 million in its first round of funding from Eqvitec Technology Fund III. The Finnish...
Hedge*hog*ing v. Interrupting conversations in an office environment by poking your head over the top of the cube.--All the talk about Alltel being acquired is not settling well with some of the RCR Wireless News staff. The thought that anything might interfere with the...
Madrid, Spain-based "social router" company Fon is hoping to drum up some interest in its unique Wi-Fi business by going head-to-head with Starbucks and thousands of other coffee shops that sell wireless Internet access within their stores. Fon is offering free La Fonera Wi-Fi...
Hello! And welcome to our Thursday column, Worst of the Week. There's a lot of nutty stuff that goes on in this industry, so this column is a chance for us at RCR Wireless News to rant and rave about whatever rubs us the...
Finally, EarthLink Inc. did it. Last Thursday, the company launched its first municipal Wi-Fi network in Anaheim, Calif., offering the city's 328,000 residents, as well as local businesses and visitors "affordable and portable broadband." EarthLink said access to the network costs about $22 per...
Google Inc. and Skype Technologies SA are among the backers of Fon, a Spanish Internet software company with plans to create a global network of 1 million shared Wi-Fi hot spots by 2010. In its first round of funding, the three-month-old company said it...
MADRID, Spain-Google Inc. and Skype Technologies SA are among the backers of Fon, a Spanish Internet software company with plans to create a global network of one million shared Wi-Fi hot spots by 2010. In its first round of funding, the three-month-old company said...
OLATHE, Kan.-A Kansas court has ruled that a multibillion-dollar class-action lawsuit brought against Sprint Corp. regarding the recombination of its wireless and wireline stocks could move ahead. The suit-brought by law firm Grant & Eisenhofer P.A. on behalf of lead plaintiff Carlson Capital L.P.-claims...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint Corp. reported that the recombination of its FON and PCS tracking stocks into a single common stock was completed today, and the two stocks will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the FON ticker symbol.The recombination eliminated PCS...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-At least six lawsuits have been filed by Sprint PCS shareholders against Sprint Corp. regarding the company's plans to recombine its PCS and FON tracking stocks. The lawsuits, which were filed in both New York and Kansas earlier this month, allege "breach...
After nearly six years of semi-autonomous trading on the open markets, Sprint Corp. decided last week to rein in its wayward wireless division by folding in Sprint PCS' tracking stock under the company's wireline-based FON common stock symbol. Sprint PCS' stock has been trading...
OVERLAND PARK, Kansas-Rumors that Sprint PCS might sell its 6,000 wireless communications towers to reduce debt are again circulating, according to a report from Bloomberg. The Bloomberg report said Sprint has hired Citigroup Inc. and Bank of America Corp. to advise on the possible...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan.-Sprint PCS President Len Lauer added the title of president and chief operating officer of Sprint Corp., where he will lead the company's sales, marketing and customer care operations. Sprint added that Lauer will also direct the transformation of the company's operations...
Sprint PCS president Len Lauer added the title of president and chief operating officer of Sprint Corp., where he will lead the company's sales, marketing and customer care operations. Sprint added that Lauer will also direct the transformation of the company's operations from its...
