Flaptor

This morning I was in a meeting with a number of entrepreneurs including Martin Varsavsky from Fon. He gave a nice presentation about the concept. I got a Fonera (FON’s wifi router) at the from the meeting, which we promptly set up at Flaptor’s office. It’s a neat concept, I won’t explain it here in detail as you can read all about it on the site. Essentially, sharing some of your bandwidth allows you to use Fon’s worldwide network for free. In order for something like this to take off it needs a significant critical mass, obviously there needs to be an abundance of FON access points in major cities. Martin showed some charts that make it look like it could happen in 2007, and it sure helps to have strategic partners like Google and Skype. I’ll keep my eye on it, and will look up FON access points when I travel.

Posted in News — December 20th, 2006