Time Warner Cable customers are invited to join the FON movement! The official press release is below. I want to thank the team at Time Warner Cable for all of their support.

MADRID, Spain — April 23, 2007 — FON today announced a partnership with Time Warner Cable which allows Time Warner Cable broadband subscribers to access the world’s largest and fastest-growing WiFi network. The partnership specifically allows Time Warner Cable subscribers to become FON community members and create FON access points via their home or business broadband connection. Furthermore, the same subscribers would enjoy free WiFi access around the world, wherever FON has partner ISPs.

With nearly 60,000 FON community members in the U.S. alone, FON is the largest WiFi network in the United States. Hotspot providers are FON community members (called Foneros) who share their unused bandwidth via a FON router in exchange for free WiFi access when roaming through any other FON access point. Through this partnership, Time Warner Cable subscribers will have the opportunity to be members of the FON community and enjoy free unlimited WiFi access at any of FON’s partner ISP WiFi hotspots.

Time Warner Cable is an American cable television company that currently operates in 33 states, with 13.4 million basic cable subscribers and 6.6 million residential high-speed data subscribers. By partnering with FON, Time Warner Cable subscribers will benefit from being able to use next generation WiFi devices such as WiFi phones, game consoles and MP3 players, both inside and outside the home.

La Fonera router is secure out-of-the-box and offers two distinct WiFi channels. One channel is for the exclusive use of its owner; the second channel is shared with other Foneros. The La Fonera increases security through an encrypted private network and Foneros decide how much bandwidth to share. Public users cannot access the private network and there is no anonymous usage.

“We are pleased to welcome Time Warner Cable subscribers to the global FON community,” said Joanna Rees, CEO of FON U.S. “Success for FON depends on extending Internet access to our user bases outside the home or office without requiring individuals to rely on costly and problematic remote access solutions.”

Will Fonero get Fonero come to Hong Kong? Tell the guys at hk.fon.com that you want it to get momentum going in Hong Kong for it!

obviously this isn’t officially by FON, but the signal is available on at least the 27-28 and 29th floor, so thanks for all those who are willing to share the signal!

 Sharing your bandwidth to others in Hotels is a great way to get additional value, I always felt that the fees in Hotel were too expensive but even if it is expensive if more than one person can use it (even if I make no money on it) that’s still ok, someone else got value for it and that’s cool.

Lots of green signals popping up everywhere! For a more detailed and live view of the map click here.

It’s in Japanese…but nevertheless a good demonstration

I recently purchased this at the Wanchai Computer Center for approx. US dollars 30 , it’s a China made 12.0 dBi (2.4Ghz) Antenna and supports FON, it’s 35 cm’s long and therefore quite long, the final output looks something like this..

It’s pretty large…but the range improvement is decent! This is obviously not an official FON product but the Fontenna will be 7-8dBi and this one is 12!

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Fon has been available for sale in the Wanchai Computer Centre for quite some time already, but I was particularly happy to find that the FON Signal (specificall FON_AP) was readily available throughout the Centre! Great Stuff! I immediately browsed the web and found it working just fine.

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