Internet access service provider EarthLink Inc. announced a joint venture with South Korean wireless telecommunications provider SK Telecom to market wireless voice and data services in the United States using a mobile virtual network operator model. The venture, which will be dubbed SK-EarthLink, is...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-In a sign of the continuing proliferation of Wi-Fi technology, Boingo Wireless and Tropos Networks have entered a partnership to allow operators of Tropos-powered metro-scale Wi-Fi networks to give Boingo Roaming System users access to their networks. The companies reported that they...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-In a sign of the continuing proliferation of Wi-Fi technology, Boingo Wireless and Tropos Networks have entered a partnership to allow operators of Tropos-powered metro-scale Wi-Fi networks to give Boingo Roaming System users access to their networks.The companies said they have completed...
BoingoWireless local area network provider and aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. named David Hagan chief executive officer, replacing company founder Sky Dayton, who will remain chairman of the board at Boingo. Hagan previously served as Boingo's president and chief operating officer. Boingo said that Hagan...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Wireless local area network provider and aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. named David Hagan chief executive officer, replacing company founder Sky Dayton, who will remain chairman of the board at Boingo. Hagan previously served as Boingo's president and chief operating officer.Boingo said that...
WASHINGTON-The Federal Communications Commission's decision that it has jurisdiction over Voice over Internet Protocol matters will increase pressure on Congress to pass legislation next year to reform the universal-service program, said the top lobbyist for state regulators. "The two things that people were predicting...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming partnership with Paris-based Meteor Networks that will add more than 400 Wi-Fi hot spots throughout part of France to Boingo's roaming network. Boingo said its network currently includes 11,000 Wi-Fi hot...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif.-724 Solutions named Tamara L. Steffens senior vice president of worldwide sales.Steffens joins 724 from Boingo Wireless, where she was vice president of worldwide carrier sales. Before that she was vice president of sales at Openwave Systems.
Concerns about security and infrastructure reliability led officials to kill plans that would have used wireless networks to help manage the Summer Olympics, but there will be no shortage of mobile technology in Athens. About 5 million fans are expected during the course of...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless and Greek Internet service provider OTEnet S.A. have partnered to connect dozens of Wi-Fi hot spots in Greece via the Boingo Roaming System for visitors to the Olympic Summer Games kicking off there next week. Through the partnership, all Boingo...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless and ICOA Inc. announced they have expanded their existing roaming relationship to include all six of the regional airports that are part of ICOA's Airport Network Solutions subsidiary's Wi-Fi network.The partnership, which brings the number of airports that are part...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless and EarthLink Inc. announced an expanded platform services agreement that will result in a new integrated Wi-Fi feature in future versions for EarthLink's TotalAccess Internet software.Under the agreement, EarthLink has licensed Boingo's software development kit for Windows and Mac OS...
SYDNEY, Australia-SkyNetGlobal and Boingo Wireless have signed a network roaming agreement to provide Boingo's customers and partners access to SkyNetGlobal's 130 wireless hot spots in Australia and Singapore, which include 119 McDonalds restaurants in Singapore."We're building our network to suit the needs of the...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless Inc. signed a network roaming agreement with Inter-touch Pty. Ltd. to add Inter-touch's Wi-Fi hot-spot network to the Boingo Roaming System in 10 countries.Inter-touch's network of Wi-Fi-equipped hotels reaches Australia, France, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Malaysia, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan and...
Billing and customer retention management provider Amdocs Ltd. said it has reached an agreement to acquire privately held mediation software provider XACCT Technologies for approximately $29.5 million. Amdocs expects the acquisition, which includes $13.5 million in cash and the rest in Amdocs ordinary shares,...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Wireless local area network integrator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a deal with Motive to jointly offer service-provisioning solutions designed to ease the installation of bundled Wi-Fi and DSL or cable model broadband services.Boingo noted the agreement fits into its Platform Services Wi-Fi...
The segregated world of wireless local area networks took a giant step toward integration as the nation's largest Wi-Fi hot spot provider T-Mobile USA Inc. reported a deal with software-enabled virtual network operator iPass Inc. allowing iPass' corporate customers to roam onto T-Mobile USA's...
Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points. MCI noted it currently has about 600 Wi-Fi access...
ASHBURN, Va.-Wireless local area network aggregator Boingo Wireless Inc. reported a roaming agreement with WorldCom Inc., providing the telecommunications provider's MCI customers with remote access service to Boingo's more than 2,000 global wireless hot-spot access points.MCI noted it currently operates approximately 600 Wi-Fi access...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-Boingo Wireless Inc. said it will add all of Concourse Communications Group's Wi-Fi hot-spot locations at major U.S. airports to the Boingo Roaming System. Concourse operates hot spots at LaGuardia Airport, JFK International Airport and Newark Liberty International Airport, and will soon...
News on the Wi-Fi vendor front continues to move along, with several new funding announcements and additional consolidation.First, hot-spot aggregator Boingo Wireless announced it completed its Series B round of financing, scoring $10 million for a total funding war chest of $30 million. Boingo...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-High-speed wireless Internet service provider Boingo Wireless Inc. announced its roaming system will include more than 2,600 hot-spot locations within the next three months. A new agreement with STSN Inc., which provides wired and wireless high-speed Internet access at hotels and conference...
SANTA MONICA, Calif.-High-speed wireless Internet service provider Boingo Wireless Inc. announced its roaming system will include more than 2,600 hot-spot locations within the next three months. A new agreement with STSN Inc., which provides wired and wireless high-speed Internet access at hotels and conference...
TAMPA-Telecommunication Services Inc. (TSI) and Boingo Wireless plan to jointly promote wireless local and wide area network roaming in an effort to drive the adoption of wireless data and increase revenues from the services. "By combining TSI's authentication, billing and reporting expertise with...
