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Fon arrives to Greece with OTE! Our goal is to blanket the whole globe with WiFi. We're getting closer and closer to accomplishing this mission in Europe! Let's welcome our new partner in Greece, OTE! Thanks to this partnership with the leading greek telco, OTE...

New funding and new Fon products! Last year we grew 50%, our network stands at over 12 million hotspots and there are more than 1,000 cities around the world with almost ubiquitous Fon WiFi coverage. But that’s just the beginning! We’re happy to announce that our...

Fon breaks through a new continent: South African MWEB is our new partner! It’s a pleasure for Fon to announce our new partnership with MWEB, the leading ISP in South Africa! After our great success in Europe, Asia and America, our excitement to blanket the world with...

2013 wraps up with great news from Brazil: half a million hotspots! 2013 has been an incredible year for Fon: we changed our brand image, announced great partnerships and grew our footprint all over the world with millions of hotspots. The latest good news that 2013...

Fon covers New York City with free WiFi! We’re pleased to introduce you to our new initiative to provide free WiFi to downtown New York! Together with DBP, Jaroth Inc. and DAS Communications, we will expand our footprint in Brooklyn. From outdoor hotspots including...

Fon Joins the AllSeen Alliance to Advance the ‘Internet of Everything’ Today we’re pleased to announce that we’ve joined the AllSeen Alliance, the largest cross-industry consortium to date to advance adoption and innovation in the “Internet of Everything” in homes and...

Welcome the newest Fonera: Now with Facebook functionality We are thrilled to introduce our brand new Fonera! Although it seems like yesterday when we released our last model, the Fonera Simpl, a lot of things have changed since then: Fon is now the leading WiFi...

Fon approaches 12M global hotspots and expands footprint in France with SFR A few weeks ago we announced superb news in France: all SFR broadband customers are also Fon members and can enjoy all Fon benefits! Today, these benefits are even better since Fon is...

Hotspot 2.0: The Next Best Thing in WiFi Recently our R&D team introduced us the most widely anticipated but least understood "next big thing" in the networked world: the Hotspot 2.0. We would like to share this information with all of you! Driven by the WiFi...

All SFR broadband customers become Fon members: 4M Fon Spots in France! Good news pour la France! Starting now, all SFR broadband customers in France are also Fon members. This means that all of them can enjoy Fon benefits and connect to more than 8 million hotspots...

Telekom-Fon network is now being deployed in Germany! Two months ago we happily announced our partnership with Deutsche Telekom, Germany’s largest telco. This week we’re thrilled to announce that the network is now being deployed! From this Tuesday, new routers...

LTE and WiFi, best friends! All along, we at Fon have been saying that WiFi and LTE are complementary technologies. Now, this has been proven by The Advanced Wireless Technology Group (AWTG), a leader in UK metro wireless/small cell technology. The group carried out a...

5G, The Future of WiFi This week we discovered that increasingly, people would rather watch TV shows and movies online, instead of on a television. Nielsen said in its latest report that in the US alone, there are 5 million residences without a cable or satellite TV...

Welcoming Our Newest Partner, Deutsche Telekom Today, we are very happy to announce that we have partnered with Deutsche Telekom, Germany’s largest telco, to create the country’s largest WiFi network! As of this summer, Deutsche Telekom’s 12 million subscribers who...

Fon has a brand new look!
 Fon has increased the size of the network and it’s team so much over the past few years that we’ve outgrown our boots! That’s why we decided to team up with the branding gurus at Interbrand and with the expert designers at Fjord to create a...

Happy 7th birthday Fon! It’s time to celebrate! 7 years ago Fon started with the crazy idea of sharing WiFi and roaming the World for free. Now it’s our 7th birthday and we are the world’s largest WiFi network with more than 7 million hotspots in around 100 countries....

Fon Partners with Hrvatski Telekom, Leading Telco in Croatia Just two weeks after announcing KPN, our new partner in the Netherlands, we have more great partnership news! This time it’s in Croatia, as we’re partnering with the country’s largest telco – Hrvatski...

Fon Partners with KPN, Largest Telco in The Netherlands Today we are happy to announce a partnership with KPN, the largest telco in the Netherlands. KPN broadband customers will be able to access Fon Spots in the Fon global network, in addition to the over 1,600 KPN...

BT Fon Becomes BT WiFi with Fon In the last days, BT and Fon have rebranded their joint WiFi service. This rebranding is the result of a collective effort between BT and Fon to simplify WiFi access for its customers and members, making it easy to find and recognize...