Ejovi Nuwere

Today I spoke at ETel about FON in America. I was only given 15 minutes and there is so much I wanted to say that I just didn’t have time to.

For example, I didn’t talk about the ability we are building into FON that will allow one FON hotspot to share documents, files, and bandwidth another FON hotspot nearby in a mesh manner.

I didn’t talk about out commitment to bring Wi-Fi to communities that need it, places like Harlem in NYC and the less advantaged areas of Paris.

I didn’t talk about the social networking component. The ability for each hotspot to have a home page that the user can personalize. So you can say “if you are in my neighborhood, check out this cafe across the street that has the best espresso in NYC!” And the ability for users to be able to send you thank you notes. This isn’t in the system now, but its in the 6 month road map.

I also said that Martin laid down trans-atlantic fiber, I don’t think thats true. But it is true that he laid fiber across europe.

Anyway, enough of my disclamer, why don’t you listen to the FON USA launch yourself.

Christine Herron, Stuart Henshall at SkypeJournal and Alec Saunders blogged about the talk.

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