FON recently announced a partnership with Time Warner Cable which allows Time Warner Cable broadband subscribers to access what they say is the world's largest and fastest-growing WiFi network. The partnership specifically allows Time Warner Cable subscribers to become FON community members and create FON access points via their home or business broadband connection. Furthermore, the same subscribers would enjoy free WiFi access around the world, wherever FON has partner ISPs.

With nearly 60,000 FON community members in the U.S. alone, FON is the largest WiFi network in the United States. Hotspot providers are FON community members (called Foneros) who share their unused bandwidth via a FON router in exchange for free WiFi access when roaming through any other FON access point. Through this partnership, Time Warner Cable subscribers will have the opportunity to be members of the FON community and enjoy free unlimited WiFi access at any of FON's partner ISP WiFi hotspots.

Time Warner Cable subscribers will benefit from being able to use next generation WiFi devices such as WiFi phones, game consoles and MP3 players, both inside and outside the home.

"We are pleased to welcome Time Warner Cable subscribers to the global FON community," said Joanna Rees, CEO of FON U.S. "Success for FON depends on extending Internet access to our user bases outside the home or office without requiring individuals to rely on costly and problematic remote access solutions."

For more on this new partnership, check out the press release.

A local newspaper in Buffalo, New York is reporting that Time Warner Cable is preparing to change the e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 high-speed Internet subscribers. The change only affects customers who were subscribed to the Adelphia "Power Link" e-mail and high-speed Internet service before Adelphia was purchased by Time Warner.

According to the report, Internet subscribers' addresses ending in the adelphia.net address will switch to the Time Warner Cable Road Runner High Speed Online domain name roadrunner.com sometime in May. Time Warner plans to forward e-mails sent to the old address for six months after the changeover.