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Boingo will offer free service at 3GSM World Congress via Visacom's high-quality network SANTA MONICA, Calif. and SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, France - February 17, 2004 - Visacom’s fast-growing hot spot network includes more than 30 French locations from Paris to the island of Corsica. Visacom has service in business hotels including Hotel Intercontinental, Le Meridien, and Hotel Best Western, and in resorts and casinos including Partouche Group casinos and several Club Med locations. The network also serves the two airports on Corsica. Boingo is the leading Wi-Fi network aggregator worldwide with nearly 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 France, Italy, the Netherlands, Germany, and the U.K. This network is a key asset for Boingo’s Platform Services program, a turnkey Wi-Fi service for service providers that also includes award-winning client software and a complete suite of back-office billing and roaming software. Current announced Platform Services partners include EarthLink, Fiberlink, Infonet Services Corp., MCI and Telecom Italia. “Boingo is committed to grow in Europe and Visacom helps us to offer service in key high-end establishments that attract business travelers,” said Dave Hagan, Boingo president and COO. “Our expanding network provides a strong base for European telecom operators wanting to offer a Wi-Fi service. Teaming up with Visacom for a free Wi-Fi promotion at 3GSM World Congress will give both companies the opportunity to put our joint strengths on display for the entire wireless industry.” “Visacom has built a reputation as one of the highest performing, most innovative and reliable players in the French wireless market by providing great customer care and a wide range of high-quality service offerings to its hot spot owners and users. Visacom's roaming agreement with Boingo is a key milestone in the company’s strategy to associate only with market leaders who share the same standards and which bring us greater market reach and visibility,” said Thierry Beau, Visacom president and managing director. “I look forward to working with Boingo to help promote the benefits of Wi-Fi to business users across France.” Free Wi-Fi at 3GSM World Congress The companies also announced they will team up to provide free Wi-Fi wireless Internet access to delegates attending the 3GSM World Congress being held on Feb. 24-26, in Cannes, France. The service promotion highlights Boingo’s easy-to-use free Wi-Fi user software and Visacom’s high-quality network. Free Boingo service will be available through the duration of the congress at Boingo’s demonstration stand at the booth of partner TSI Telecommunications Inc. (Hall 2, Stand D55) and at five Visacom hot spot locations near the Cannes congress center, including: the Cannes Palace Hotel, Le Meridien Hotel Garden Beach (Juan les Pins), and at restaurants La Potinière, Le Farfalla, and La Brasserie du Casino. Users need to have a Wi-Fi (802.11b)-enabled computer and the Boingo client, which can be downloaded by connecting to the Internet from any of Visacom’s Cannes locations or from Boingo’s website (www.boingo.com). About About Visacom Founded in 1996, Visacom is an operator and integrator of public access Wi-Fi networks based on IP technology services and solutions that are targeted at business users in high-end conference centers, business hotels, business centers, restaurants, communities areas and travel centers such as airports, harbors, and train stations. Visacom’s solutions are exclusively architected using the highest levels of security, reliability, flexibility and open systems to allow for scalability and new features. This level of performance is achieved without compromising ease-of-use features, thus meeting the most demanding end-user requirements. « back to Press Releases |
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