[Telecentres] video blog about the Fon wifi network

[Andy Carvin]

Hi everyone,

I've just posted a seven-minute video blog featuring Martin Varsavsky, 
the founder of the Fon wifi network (www.fon.com), who spoke last week 
at the Harvard Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Fon is a new global network of individuals who provide free or low-cost 
wifi to their neighborhoods. Those who provide a hotspot may in turn 
access any other Fon hotspot for free. If you charge users for access, 
you must limit their access fees to USD $2 a day, and share the revenue 
with local broadband providers.

In the video blog, Varsavsky talks about Fon and "foneros," the 
volunteers who make up the network. He also compares and contrasts Fon 
with municipal wifi networks like the one being deployed in Philadelphia.

http://www.andycarvin.com/archives/2006/03/fon_the_global_wifi.html

The video is a Quicktime file, available in three formats. The high 
resolution version is just under 40 megabytes, the medium res version is 
around 15 megabytes, and the low-res version is just over two megabytes.

Meanwhile, for those of you who use digg.com, I've submitted a summary 
of the video here:

http://digg.com/technology/Video_Blog_about_Fon,_the_new_global_wifi_network

thanks,
andy

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