Spanish Wi-Fi Company Sells Wireless Routers For Five Dollars
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FON, a Spanish start-up on an ambitious crusade to turn home Wi-Fi connections into wireless “hotspots” for nearby users, is set to unveil Monday a plan to hand out 1 million wireless routers for just $5 apiece. I wonder if FON is planning on coming to America with an offer like that.
FON, which aims to create a network of home users and small businesses to resell wireless access to passersby, said Sunday it will subsidize $60 Cisco Linksys or Buffalo routers for $5 in the United States or 5 euros in Europe. Routers are small boxes users connect to cable or telephone Internet connections to broadcast wireless signals to nearby devices, inside a home, business or surrounding neighborhood.
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