Since the seventeenth century, the Fon have been concentrated in the Benin region and the southwestern part of Togo and Nigeria. The Fon people, like neighboring ethnic groups in West Africa, remained an oral tradition society through the late medieval era, without ancient historical records.
The history of the Fon people is closely tied to the Dahomey kingdom, a well-organized state by the 17th century, but one that shared more ancient roots with the Aja people. The Fon people traditionally have a culture rooted in oral tradition and a well-developed polytheistic religious system.
Fon was founded in Madrid, Spain, in 2006, by Martín Varsavsky. Today, the company is headquartered in Bilbao. [1][2] Fon started out by building its Wi-Fi network through devices called "foneras".
Fon is now part of Agile TV. This move brings more innovation, scalability, and service to strengthen our TVaaS solutions.
Fon Has Joined Agile TV - A New Chapter Begins - AgileTV
Those settling in Kana became known as Fon, but remain closely related to the Gun people of Porto-Novo and the Ayizo of Allada. In Kana, the Fon encountered indigenous Yoruba-speaking peoples of the region before founding the kingdom of Dahomey.
Fon members ("Foneros") install a special router that lets them securely share their Wi-Fi networks with other Foneros who are in the vicinity. In turn, they have free access to any other "Fon...
Fon is a WiFi provider. It is Driven by a community WiFi approach, and through strategic partnerships with telecommunication companies and WiFi providers including British Telecom, Deutsche Telekom Group, SFR, SoftBank, Telstra, KPN, Proximus, Vodafone, Virgin Media, and The Cloud, we have created a globally connected WiFi network.