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February 09, 2006
The Cloud Weighs In On FON
Since they both are trying to build wireless hotspot businesses in Europe, the alarm:clock euro asked Niall Murphy CTO, of The Cloud for a comment on FON's entry into the market.
Rather than feeling threatened, Murphy sees the upstart as positive, mainly due to the marketing-effect. But you can read his words below and form your own opinion.
And, yes we checked, The Cloud has no contractual agreement with FON, although it does have an agreement with Skype (a FON shareholder) to provide its chat service by default in its hotspots.
Niall Murphy, CTO, The Cloud
The recent announcement by Fon reflects the growth in the home WiFi market and, moreover, highlights the benefits of WiFi to consumers. The Fon business model is similar to Skype.
We see it as complementary to the activity that The Cloud is involved in in the UK, Germany and Nordic region. It will be really interesting to see what kind of pick up it gets, but , on the whole, it is an important development and a positive one for the market we operate in.
The more WiFi users there are, the better for us, as this drives the general acceptance of WiFi as a mobility tool and the inherent demand for connectivity by people who have WiFi enabled devices.
Posted on February 9, 2006 03:43 PM | Posted to Wireless | Permalink
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