SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Boingo Wireless™ today announced it has signed a roaming agreement with All Telecom to add its ALLSPOT network of Wi-Fi hot spots in key hotels and restaurants throughout France and Belgium to the Boingo™ Roaming System.
All Telecom is focused on providing wired and wireless Internet connectivity to the hospitality industry in Western Europe. To date, the company has more than 150 hot spot locations in France and Belgium including several major hotel chains. The company will expand into Italy and Spain during 2004 and expects its network to grow to 1,500 locations by the end of 2004.
Boingo, the leading Wi-Fi network aggregator with more than 6,000 locations worldwide, and has been aggressively expanding its Boingo Roaming System in Europe, with more than 3,000 hot spot locations under contract in Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and the U.K.
The network is a key part of Boingo’s Platform Services offering, a turnkey Wi-Fi service for service providers that also includes award-winning client software and a complete suite of back-office billing, roaming, mediation and clearing house services. Current announced Platform Services partners include Telecom Italia, MCI, Infonet Services, EarthLink and Fiberlink.
“Through our agreement with Boingo, we expect to access more mature Wi-Fi users and significantly increase our wireless network usage. This partnership is also strategic for our hotel partners who focus on increasing loyalty with business travelers through appropriate services, and Wi-Fi connectivity is clearly becoming an inescapable need for business travellers worldwide,” said Ségolène Chambrier, All Telecom president and founder.
“Boingo envisions a network throughout Europe that will allow business travelers to log in at any convenient location regardless of the country or the network operator, and we are building this network through agreements with leading European companies like All Telecom,” said David Hagan, Boingo president and chief operating officer.
Boingo Wireless Inc.