FON, The Largest Wi-Fi Community In the World, Signs Important Licensing Agreement with Wireless Software Specialist Spotigo

DUSSELDORF, Germany & MADRID, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The German company Spotigo has successfully signed an important licensing agreement for its technically leading Wi-Fi Smart Client. The Spain based company FON – the largest Wi-Fi Community in the world – will be using the Spotigo technology to substantially improve the way its Community members and customers can access its Wi-Fi Community. Spotigo’s technology will be provided by FON under the name of the “FON Wi-Fi Connection Manager” and distributed to all of its users and Community members around the world.

“Spotigo develops excellent Wi-Fi products and we see this confirmed by the fact that the largest Wi-Fi Community of the world has chosen us as their provider.”

The FON founder and CEO Martin Varsavsky states:” With this Connection Manager FONs users will be able to detect and connect to FON Access Points, Fonspots, automatically. Simply staying or passing within an area that has coverage of a Fonspot will be enough to automatically get a mobile broadband connection established. We have chosen Spotigo as a partner in this project because of their deep technical know-how and comprehensive Wi-Fi related product experience.”

Daniel Prümers, Managing Director Marketing & Sales and co-founder of Spotigo explains: “Spotigo develops excellent Wi-Fi products and we see this confirmed by the fact that the largest Wi-Fi Community of the world has chosen us as their provider.” Spotigo is providing its technology to FON for usage on Microsoft Windows devices and Symbian Smartphones. Further releases for other platforms are currently in development.

About Spotigo

Spotigo started operations in the beginning of 2005 and is today one of the leading European software- and services company to provide innovative technology to mobile broadband operators. Spotigo manages the largest European search-service for Wi-Fi Access Points (“Hotspots”) with over 50.000 listed Hotspots (worldwide over 110.000). Spotigo also distributes a platform independent Wi-Fi-SmartClient, a software solution that enables internet users to find and log on to Hotspots automatically. Spotigo’s products are already available in Germany, France, Spain, UK and Sweden. In 2006 the High-Tech Gründerfonds decided to invest in Spotigo for the further development of its product line.