When we told a US friend about Fon, he was shocked. Why don’t we have anything like that? And we wondered just how long before the ideas behind Fon became truly transformational on a more international scale. Would it get launched in the US, we wondered, but this week it has instead cropped up in the Netherlands, through incumbent KPN. Fon was founded in Spain in 2005 and has only spread moderately internationally. By 2007 it had signed up British Telecom, which today allows some 4.5 million WiFi routers which are based in people’s homes, to offer Fon services. Fon is basically a club for members. If you let other people use some limited bandwidth of your home WiFi, in…