Mr Fon was at the Welsh assembly on Wednesday to brief assembly members about the dispute.
Stokols believes this service will disrupt others such as FON, another free Wi-Fi startup.
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The idea of peer-to-peer Internet access sharing is obviously not new, pioneered by Spanish-based startup FON.
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Time Warner is reportedly in talks with Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) to resell and potentially re-brand its mobile service.
Recent changes have made it less costly to shed workers, but, says Martin Varsavsky, CEO of Fon, a collaborative global Wi-Fi network, it is still too hard.
Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) already offers a video service called MobiTV to its customers, offering about 20 channels of low-quality video.
Much like a 4G version of FON, subscribers to the Clearwire-rooted network are required to share their Internet link-ups with the public as a WiFi hotspot.
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"Kids are a very important market for us, " says Will Souder , director of acquisition marketing for Sprint PCS (nyse: FON - news - people ).
"It's definitely something we think is going to explode over the next few years, " says Will Souder, director of acquisition marketing for Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ).
Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) is testing out the EV-DO technology in several markets, and plans to roll it out to most of its major markets early next year.
It's not a telecommunications windfall, it's a pass-through tax, '' says Mark Beshears , vice president of state and local tax for Sprint (nsye: FON - news - people ), a major backbone provider.
In a standard wireless network--such as those used by cellular vendors like Sprint PCS (nyse: FON - news - people )--a central antenna or base station always acts as middleman in any communication.
Remember that FON service we brought to you a few months back, which aims to create a worldwide network of private hotspots wherein members can hop onto any other members' routers for free VoIP calling?
Mr Fon told BBC Wales he was not keen on arbitration because he believes it is "a tick box exercise from the BBC to bounce us into... an industrial tribunal which they know we can't afford".
BellSouth (nyse: BLS - news - people ) Vice Chairman Gary Forsee is expected to take the chief executive post at Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ).
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Telecom provider Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people) and Internet service provider EarthLink (nasdaq: ELNK - news - people) announced today that they will revise their alliance forged in 1998.
And now, according to published reports, the company may be about to make its most ambitious play yet: merging with rival Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people - news - people ) to form the third-largest company in the industry.
It would need to resell wireless service from one of its competitors--Qwest currently has a deal with Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people )-- in order to offer the sort of bundled telecommunications services that are increasingly popular with consumers.
The merged company--to be called Sprint Nextel --promises to mesh the best elements of each company, including Nextel's (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) push-to-talk technology and strong corporate customer base, and Sprint's (nyse: FON - news - people ) high-speed data network.
That puts DSL providers at a particular disadvantage, a Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) executive testified, because state and local telecom taxes are so high--an average of 13.9% of bills across the U.S., compared to an average 6% sales tax on other goods and services.
Under the terms of the deal, existing Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) shares will remain outstanding, and each Nextel (nasdaq: NXTL - news - people ) common share will be converted into new company shares and a small per-share amount of cash.
Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) currently comes in a distant third in the rankings of U.S. wireless carriers, with about 17.3 million customers, and Nextel (nasd: NXTL - news - people ) is way back in number five, with about 14.5 million subscribers.
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