Vodafone Spain and Vodafone Italy will join Fon`s global WiFi network

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Vodafone Spain and Vodafone Italy will join
Fon’s global WiFi network
22 APRIL 2015. MADRID & MILAN.- Fon, the global WiFi network, entered
a partnership with Vodafone Spain and Vodafone Italy to deploy community
WiFi. Together they will build the largest WiFi network in Spain and Italy.
Fon has become the world’s largest community WiFi network with its original
and unique crowdsourced approach. It is built by millions of users who share a
bit of their WiFi at home. Today, more than 14 million members share and
enjoy being part of the Fon Community.
Vodafone modems will become part of the Fon network, broadcasting two
powerful, dedicated WiFi signals from a single broadband Internet source. One
signal is encrypted and private. The other signal is public, but only accessible
via password. Since the private network is always prioritized, there is no
noticeable change in internet speed for those who share.
Starting this week, Vodafone Spain will roll out the joint service to its
customers. Vodafone Italy will launch the following week.
“Our partnership with Fon helps us to ensure that our customers
confidently connected wherever they are in the world. Fon technology
complement our existing services in Spain, while enabling us to offer
customers the convenience of being able to access to the millions of
hotspots around the world.” said Babak Fouladi, CTO at Vodafone Spain.
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These initial deployments will be completed by summer and there will be more
than 2 million Vodafone-Fon Spots available in Spain and Italy by the end of
the year.
"We are very excited to announce this partnership. Vodafone has been leading
innovation in telecommunications for decades now. Working together with
Vodafone on their WiFi strategy is a big step forward for Fon and for WiFi
overall, which is becoming an integrated part of fixed and mobile
communication", said Martin Varsavsky, Founder and CEO of Fon.
The new countries, Spain and Italy, are top tourist destinations and will help
complete European coverage in Fon's dense network.
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About Fon
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 more than 14 million hotspots. Fon has offices in Madrid,
London, Tokyo and New York. The company has partnerships with top telcos in
all continents: BT (UK), SFR (France), NOS (Portugal), Netia (Poland), Deutsche
Telekom (Germany, Croatia and Romania), OTE (Greece), KPN (Netherlands),
Proximus (Belgium), MWEB (South Africa), Oi (Brazil), JT (Jersey Island),
SoftBank (Japan), Telstra (Australia), KT (South Korea), and Vodafone (Spain
and Italy). Innovating in the WiFi industry is part of Fon´s DNA. Our vision is to
be “always on, always on the move”. For more information, please visit
www.fon.com.
Press contact
Fon
María Rodríguez Juez
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