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eBay/Google financed free wireless provider FON to sell $5 routers

  
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eBay/Google financed free wireless provider FON to sell $5 routers
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eBay/Google financed free wireless provider FON to sell $5 routers
Quote:FON, a company funded by Google Inc. and eBay Inc. to promote free wireless Internet access, will start selling routers for $5 to encourage consumers to share their Web connections with others.

Consumers buying the routers, which usually cost about $60, will need to let others use their Internet connections and in return will be able to connect for free to other wireless hot spots that are part of the network, said Juergen Urbanski, Madrid-based FON's U.S. general manager.

FON, which in February raised $21.7 million from Google, eBay's Skype Technologies, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital, is aiming to build a global network of wireless fidelity, or Wi-Fi, links to promote Internet access...

full article: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/2...gle27.html
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