Time Warner Cable has partnered with Spanish-based hotspot company FON to offer its subscribers access to any of FON’s 60,000 Wi-Fi hotspots scattered throughout the country.
Interestingly, those FON hotspots are actually managed by FON community members who share their unused bandwidth via a FON router in exchange for free Wi-Fi access on any other FON access point.
Time Warner Cable currently operates in 33 states with 13.4 million basic cable subscribers and 6.6 million residential high-speed data subscribers.
“We are pleased to welcome Time Warner Cable subscribers to the global FON community,” said Joanna Rees, CEO of FON in the United States. “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.”
Celebrating its one-year birthday, FON counts a total of 300,000 registered users worldwide. Google Inc. and Skype are both major backers of the service.
FON links up with Time Warner Cable
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