Share WiFi at home…

Enjoy WiFi everywhere

Our Vision

Build a WiFi nation by linking existing WiFi access points into a single unified Global Community

What is FON?

• FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Foneros share their WiFi broadband access at home and enjoy WiFi all over the world!

• FON aims to become the largest WiFi community by the end of 2006 and cover the developed world by 2010

• FON drives additional revenues to ISPs through revenue sharing and allows partner ISPs to differentiate from their competition

• FON members, or Foneros, open their home WiFI to other Foneros, allowing them to access free WiFi whenever they are in reach of another Fonero

• FON’s Community will allow anyone to access their favorite applications, such as Skype or Google Maps, on any device anywhere at anytime

Who is FON?

• Founded: November, 2005

• Funding: $21.7 million from Skype, Google, Index Ventures and Sequoia Capital

• Reach: 56 countries and growing

• Headquartered: Madrid, Spain

• Number of employees: 20

• Founder and CEO: Martin Varsavsky

• Board of Directors:– Martin Varsavsky, FON– Antonio Fuentes, CFO FON– Niklas Zennstrom, Skype– Mike Volpi, Cisco– Danny Rimer, Index Ventures

Martin Varsavsky, Founder and CEO. Martin is a prolific entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder of Jazztel, Viatel, Ya.com and amongst other companies. He also teaches at the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid; is President and Founder of the Varsavsky Foundation and the Safe-Democracy Foundation; and has been Ambassador-at-Large of Argentina, amongst being active in various other ventures. Martin received his BA from New York University and holds an MA in International Affairs and an MBA from Columbia University.

FON Leadership

Antonio Fuentes, CFO. Engineer and MBA, with extensive experience in the mobile and fixed telecommunications industry. Formerly COO Jazztel and ex-Vodafone Spain.

Diego Cabezudo, COO. Engineer and MBA. Formerly Strategy Manager with O2, with wide experience in the mobile, broadband and WiFi telecommunications industry.

Juantomás García, CTO. President of Hispalinux, Founder and CEO of Mono::Lab.

North American Fonero Leaders

North AmericaUSAEjovi NuwereSecurityLabNamed among 20 Young Entrepreneurs of Tech by BusinessWeek

Joichi ItoSix ApartOne of the founders of the blogging phenomenon

Andrew RasiejNYC Public Advocate candidatePolitical and WiFi activist

Ethan ZuckermanHarvard Berkman CenterFounder of Tripod, top US blogger

Wendy SeltzerHarvard Berkman CenterFormerly, Electronic Frontier Foundation

Dan GillmorJournalistAuthor of "We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People"

Esther DysonRelease 1.0 and CNETCNET Editor and successful investor in emerging Technologies.

David WeinbergerTechnologistCo-author of Cluetrain Manifesto

Rebecca MacKinnonHarvard Berkman CenterGlobal leaders of tomorrow, W.E.F. founder of Global Voices

Jerry MichalskiSociatePresident and Founder

David IsenbergIsen.comEx-AT&T and author of “The Rise of the Stupid Network”

European Fonero Leaders

SWEDENOla AhlvarsonResult.comNamed one of top 10 European Internet entrepreneurs by The Wall Street Journal

FRANCEYann MauchampOpenBC

Jean-Bernard MagescasMunicipal WiFi movement

Tariq KrimNetvibes.com

IRELANDAntoin O LachtnainEire.com

THE NETHERLANDSBob StumpelResult.com Amsterdam

SWITZERLANDBill LiaoFinaxis AG, OpenBC

GERMANYChristiane Zu SalmInteractive 9LiveNamed one of the 25 future leaders of tomorrow by the Financial Times

ISRAELJonas WeilResult.com Tel Aviv

SPAINAntonio SaezFormerly COO Ya.com

Alvaro IbañezMicrosiervos

Jon BerrojalbizTrading Motion

International Fonero Leaders

South America and Asia

MEXICOEduardo ArcosALT1040

ARGENTINAMariano AmartinoWeblogs.com.ar

JAPANJoichi ItoSix Apart

One of the founders of the blogging phenomenon

Fumi Yamazaki Technorati

Gen KanaiTechnorati

Héctor García Technorati

Why FON ?

• Broadband growth continues to grow

• WiFi is rapidly disseminating

• WiFi devices are rapidly proliferating

• VOIP is becoming mainstream Skype has 75 million members and is growing rapidly

• Users want Internet everywhere

FON Members: Bills, Linuses and Aliens

Linus: Share their WiFi hotspot and get free roaming on the FON Community

Bills: Share their WiFi hotspot and get 50% of the revenue generated by aliens in their hotspot but pay for roaming

Aliens: Customers who pay for access to the FON Community

COMING SOON (not yet available):

How FON will Grow

• Blogs and Word of Mouth: FON acquired 3,000 users in the first 90 days via word of mouth

• ISPs: Through mutually beneficial partnerships with leading ISPs, FON will offer users unprecedented WiFi coverage

• Hardware manufacturers: Already tightly partnered with Linksys to distribute FON-enabled routers, FON is rapidly expanding its universe of hardware partnerships

• Web sites: FON will enter into partnerships with like-minded Web sites to promote its vision for universal WiFi

Easy Install

Dual-mode Terminal

Circuit Call

• Foneros download the FON software to their computers and Linux-based routers

• Software makes open WiFi safe for Aliens and Foneros and protects their router security

• Only a 5 minute process

software router

Firmware

update

Fon access point

How it Works

Dual-mode Terminal

Circuit Call

PSTN

Internet

MobileCore

Network

ISP

Aliens and Linus

Aliens and Linus

Aliens and Linus Linus and Bills

FON Radius authentication

VoIPProvider

Coverage Exists, but is Blocked

• WiFi signals blanket metropolitan areas, but it is normally blocked and cannot be accessed easily

• Hotspots are available but expensive and sporadic

• By sharing existing but closed WiFi networks, coverage could be ubiquitous in cities

Real example in a street in

Madrid

Thank You!