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Fon

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Fon was founded in February 2006 by serial entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky with the goal of blanketing the world with WiFi.

Today the company is a global WiFi leader with over 7 million hotspots in more than 100 countries.

Fon has offices in Madrid, London, Tokyo and New York. Its partners include Deutsche Telekom (Germany), Belgacom (Belgium), BT (UK), Hrvatski Telekom (Croatia), KPN (Netherlands), Oi (Brazil), MTC (Russia), Netia (Poland), SFR (France), SoftBank (Japan) and ZON (Portugal).

Recent Milestones

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  Fon added Mario Carranza as Product Manager. (3/1/13)
  Posted 3/26/13 at 4:32am
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  Fon added Diana Morato as Business Development Director. New Markets . (1/1/13)
  Posted 5/17/13 at 2:48am
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  Fon — Crowdsourced Wi-Fi Network Fon Passes 5 Million Hotspots Worldwide (2/22/12)
  Posted 2/22/12 at 6:55pm via techcrunch.com
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  Fon added Andres Fajardo as Head of Product. (3/1/11)
  Posted 4/15/13 at 4:41am
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  Fon received $13.5M (€10M) in Venture Round funding. (2/16/11)
  Posted 2/16/11 at 6:07pm via techcrunch.com
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  Fon — Fon Ended 2010 With 3.35 Million WiFi Hotspots, €28 Million In Revenues (2/1/11)
  Posted 2/1/11 at 9:48pm via techcrunch.com
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  Fon added Richard Alden as Non executive director. (1/1/10)
  Posted 10/6/12 at 10:47am
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  Fon received $9.53M (€6M) in Series C funding. (4/10/08)
  Posted 4/10/08 at 9:49am
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  Fon received $13.1M (€10M) in Series B funding. (3/7/07)
  Posted 3/11/08 at 11:33am via martinvarsavsky.net
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  Fon added Anil Hansjee as Advisor. (10/1/06)
  Posted 5/28/11 at 11:07am
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  Fon received $21.6M (€18M) in Series A funding. (2/6/06)
  Posted 3/11/08 at 11:33am via lightreading.com
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  Fon added Alex Puregger as COO. (1/1/06)
  Posted 3/7/13 at 6:31am
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  Fon added Teo Ruiz as VP of Technology || First employee. (10/7/05)
  Posted 6/14/11 at 11:57pm
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  Fon added Dan Gillmor as Board. (6/17/74)
  Posted 10/4/07 at 2:34am
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  Fon added Tariq Krim as Advisor.
  Posted 10/4/07 at 2:35am
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  Fon added Wendy Seltzer as Board.
  Posted 10/4/07 at 2:36am

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Products

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Fon

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Twitxr

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Website	twitxr.com
Stage	Live
Launch Date	February 1, 2008

Twitxr is a Twitter-like service, launched by FON Labs in February 2008, that allows the user to post a brief text message and photo. They’ve also created software which allows direct posting from the iPhone.

Above: Sample user page
Uploaded: 2/17/08

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Sources

1. LightReading (lightreading.com) [edit]
2. Founder's Blog (english.martinvarsavsky.net) [edit]
3. Citation Needed [add]
4. Fon raises $13.5 million in funding round led by Atomico to put the US in its sights (eu.techcrunch.com) [edit]
Fon Ended 2010 With 3.35 Million WiFi Hotspots, €28 Million In Revenues (techcrunch.com) [edit]
Crowdsourced Wi-Fi Network Fon Passes 5 Million Hotspots Worldwide (techcrunch.com) [edit]