AT&T Corp. said it has signed roaming agreements that add more than 2,100 Wi-Fi hot spots across China, Japan and Greece, as well as in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity through select European and Asian airlines to its Enterprise Mobility Portfolio. The company also said it has added wireless cellular connectivity for remote workers in the United States.
AT&T’s Wi-Fi expansion included a roaming agreement with GoRemote Internet Communications Inc. that will allow AT&T customers to roam on more than 1,330 hot-spot locations in the China Mobile hot-spot network. The expansion also includes access to more than 800 hot-spot locations through Yahoo Broadband in Japan and 40 hot spots through FORTHnet in Greece.
AT&T said its Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet footprint now includes more than 13,000 locations worldwide, including 7,629 in the United States and 6,118 internationally. The company said it expected to have roaming agreements covering more than 16,000 locations by the end of the year.
AT&T also signed an agreement with Connexion by Boeing that will allow customers to access in-flight Wi-Fi services beginning in the first quarter of next year.
AT&T’s cellular connectivity solution uses Cingular Wireless L.L.C., Verizon Wireless and Sprint Nextel Corp. PC cards and services both domestically and internationally. The company added that all of the new features and locations have been integrated into its network connection manager software.
