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FON is awesome, I installed it at my home and I have nabours connecting to it, and some of them pay so as I get 50% I’ve been paid about 50€ in the past few months. I haven’t freely connected yet to many other FON hotspots though, but this might change soon.

FON has signed deals with some huge ISPs around the world such as BT in the UK, Neuf in France and Time Warner Cable in the USA. All of those ISPs have millions of Wi-Fi enabled routers out there, customized firmware updates are being pushed out and installed onto all those routers and customers are then able to activate FON by simply clicking “Yes” on a special webpage.

Not everything about the recently announce BT deal in the UK has been announced, such as BT became an investor in FON and exactly how FON and BT are going to share revenue from BT FONspots. This is how I think that the revenue sharing could happen:

- FON could leave the largest part of the revenue from Aliens onto the ISPs, since it is the ISPs hardware, thus the ISPs network.

- It would be up to the ISP to decide if they want to provide access to worldwide Foneros onto their private WiFi networks which aren’t actual people sharing their own WiFi to get access to FONspots worldwide. ISP’s may possibly provide a discount or special roaming service for FONeros, so very active FONeros meaning that they have a very active FONspot would be able to roam for cheaper on those private WiFi networks, such as the BT OpenZone network.

- The main point being the FONeros get free access to those new FONspots and those new FONspot providers instanly have free access to all the FONspots worldwide.

This probably means that FON will soon announce they will have signed with other large ISPs in other countries, and maybe hopefully even find a way to have different ISPs in the same country agree that both become compatible with each other using FON as the WiFi sharing standard. Thus in France I hope one day all of Neuf, Orange and Free would agree to all install FON on their routers and maybe internally provide some different roaming agreements depending on the quality of the FONspots that everyone adds into the mix. With such ISP agreements, FON is about to cover the whole planet with WiFi, at least all the densely populated parts of the planet, the rest would probably be covered with WiMax.