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FON Giving Away Free Wifi Routers

Posted on June 3rd, 2006 in wireless | No Comments »

Found in my inbox this week:

Dear Fonero,

We see that you have created a FON account and we thank you for your interest in joining the FON Community. We have detected that you have not yet activated a FON hotspot to share your internet connection.

The time has come for you to share a little bit of your bandwidth with the FON Community. Indeed, among our many initiatives to build the largest WiFi community in the world, FON is offering free FON social routers to a selected group of Foneros around the world.

Congratulation! You have been selected to receive a free FON Ready router.

If you?re interested in receiving this router, just answer this email by clicking on “Reply” and “Send”. There is no need to type anything.

Please note that your registration details must be valid in order to receive your free social router. Please verify your details by clicking on the link below:

https://en.fon.com/registration/registered-foneros-area.php

As soon as your router is sent, you will receive a confirmation email including a tracking number.

Once your have received your router, you will have two weeks to connect it to the internet and activate it. If your router has still not been activated after this two-week period, you will be asked to return the router to FON.

Fiber Tower and First Avenue Networks Announce Merger

Posted on May 15th, 2006 in Uncategorized, wireless | No Comments »

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The definitive agreement to combine the two companies in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $1.5 billion. The combined company will be named FiberTower Corporation.
First Ave up 25% to $12.04 on volume of 1.2 million shares.

Press Release.