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Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Time Warner extending your broadband coverage

FON and Time Warner Cable announced a new partnership on Monday that will allow that latter company's broadband subscribers to also access the FON WiFi network for free.

Time Warner cable subscribers can also become FON community members and create their own access points through their home or business broadband connections.

These community members essentially serve as Hotspot providers who then share their unused bandwidth via a specialized FON router in exchange for free WiFi access when roaming through any other FON access point.

With nearly 60,000 community members so far in the U.S., FON claims that it is now the largest WiFi network in the United States.

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