The largest Wi-Fi network in the world is officially making its U.S. launch

Wireless network Fon on Wednesday introduced its home Wi-Fi router, the $59 Fonera, in the United States after building up Wi-Fi hot spots across Europe and Asia. The router splits a wireless signal into two—one for your own home use, and a secondary, smaller slice for other Fonera users.

Fon was founded in 2006 and has been busy propagating its "give a little, get a lot" business model since then, mainly in Europe. Fon isn't a broadband service provider. It piggybacks on your existing service, but securely splits the wireless signal into separate, password-protected pieces—one for your use, and one for your community to use.

This way, users open up their network to other FON members, and in turn are able to use any other FON Wi-Fi hotspot free of charge. The owner of the original network never suffers slow bandwidth or any other overloaded network issues because they are operating on their own signal, keeping them free from whatever the other Fon users are doing. Users of these "public" networks sign in through a webpage, enter their created Fon credentials, authenticate, and connect – much like when you're at the airport or Starbucks.

Because of the way Fon is setup, it's technically the largest Wi-Fi network in the world, with 12 million hotspots worldwide.

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