Wi-Fi provider FON, which pioneered the community hotspot concept, has announced that its global network has passed 7m access points, 2m of those added this year ‘ as many as in the whole of 2011. Its performance has given huge credibility to the community model, and gathered support from big name carriers like British Telecom ‘ FON’s largest partner ‘ and Belgacom of Belgium, its fastest growing. Now, the increasingly impact of such approaches is not just appealing to carriers ‘ Free Mobile is using a variation to boost its disruptive effect on the French mobile space ‘ but to Wi-Fi vendors too. Broadcom has announced community Wi-Fi software which turns a wireless Docsis 3.0 cable modem gateway into a…