Google, Skype, and Sequoia, others, fund 21.7 million into FON. Will it work out?Glenn and Om has a take. So does Dirson. Glenn is skeptical. Speaking to Google’s supposed interest in blanketing the world with WiFi, he points out:
I argue strongly that Google will not become a Wi-Fi provider beyond San Francisco and Mountain View (at least not on any large scale) because their interest is high-margin businesses like advertising not low-margin ones like service provision.
Yes, but what if you need that distribution to run those high margin services over? More as the Superbowl buzz wears off.
Is that eBay money? Probably not. Sounds like Niklas and Janus. its not the same!