Fon has already got a dream start. With friends like Google, Skype, Sequoia and $21.7 million investment in its stride the Spanish start up now have to make friends Internet Service providers. Fon wants to make it easy for people so that they can access Wi-Fi anywhere anytime. But Fon will have to face some problem here as most Internet Service Providers do not allow any kind of reselling or sharing the bandwidth. That’s may acrually hit upon their corer business model.
Why ?
Via [Networkingpipeline]The idea behind Fon, founded three months ago by telecom entrepreneur Martin Varsavsky, is to create a global network of users called foneros–people who let others access the Internet through their broadband Wi-Fi connections. Members will fit into one of three categories. Linus members–the only kind that exist today–share home Wi-Fi hot-spots with the Fon network and use any Fon hot-spot free. Alien members will pay for the Fon network based on usage. And Bill members will share their Wi-Fi hot-spots with Alien members for a fee and have to pay to use the Fon network. The model hinges on Aliens, both to generate revenue to pay Bill members and to build hot-spots.
