Boingo Adds Six North American Airports to Hot Spot Network
31 March 2006
Boingo Wireless, the world's leading Wi-Fi network aggregator, today announced that six North American airports have been added to the Boingo Roaming Network as a result of network expansion by roaming partners. This increases Boingo's Wi-Fi coverage to 125 North American airports and 225 airports worldwide.
"Airports are by far the highest utilized locations in our roaming system because the benefits are so strongly recognized by business travelers," said Colby Goff, Boingo's senior vice president of network strategy and business development. "Our goal is ubiquitous airport coverage, and we continue to work with our valued roaming partners to add airports of all sizes to the network."
New airport locations include recently installed airport-wide networks at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport, and the Montreal-Trudeau International Airport. The Chicago deployments came through Boingo's roaming relationship with Concourse Communications and the Montreal system via a similar agreement with Opti-Fi Networks.
Boingo also added service at Philadelphia International Airport, Raleigh-Durham, NC, International Airport and Indianapolis International Airport when they were recently added to the AT&T Wi-Fi(SM) network, another Boingo roaming partner.
Combined, these airports host more than 190 million travelers a year, and this network expansion underscores Boingo's commitment to becoming the de facto provider of Wi-Fi services for professionals traveling around the globe.
25,571 Reasons to Use Boingo
Boingo gives business travelers the best choice of Wi-Fi hot spots by combining over 25,000 locations from more than 120 leading Wi-Fi operators into one worldwide network. Boingo users can connect to any of these locations with a single Boingo account using Boingo's free Wi-Fi client software, which combines more than 450 network names into one "Boingo Wireless" network to simplify identifying and connecting to commercial Wi-Fi networks.
Boingo also partners with service providers to allow their users to access these hot spots through its Boingo Platform Services program. The program provides partners with access to this network, customized client software, and a full suite of back-office billing, roaming, mediation and clearinghouse services to allow them to offer their own Wi-Fi service quickly and cost effectively. To date, the company has announced Platform Services partnerships with BT Infonet, Earthlink, Fiberlink, Nextel Communications, MCI, Skype and Telecom Italia.
About Boingo Wireless
Boingo Wireless, Inc. is an ultra-high-speed wireless Internet service available in tens of thousands of locations such as hotels, airports, cafes and other public places in dozens of countries throughout the world. The Boingo Roaming System comprises hundreds of Wi-Fi network operators, which are accessible through Boingo's connection software for laptops, PDAs, dual-mode phones and other embedded devices. The software -- available in SDK and white label GUI versions -- makes finding and connecting to Wi-Fi networks point-and-click simple, improving productivity for people on the go by enabling their device of choice for Wi-Fi roaming authentication. With the largest aggregated Wi-Fi network in the world, coupled with best-in-class software solutions for both laptops and portable devices, Boingo helps carriers and ISPs keep their customers connected with a high-quality broadband wireless connection. More information about Boingo is available at http://www.boingo.com.
Boingo is a registered trademark of Boingo Wireless Inc.
Contacts:
Christian Gunning
310-586-4009
christian@boingo.com
Source: prnewswire
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