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Wi-Fi service providers who use Wificom’s SAB Server™ can easily join the Boingo® Roaming System SANTA MONICA, Calif. and HELSINKI, Finland - March 22, 2004 - The patchwork nature of Wi-Fi deployments is a barrier to mass adoption by business travelers. Improving the ability of WISPs to add their networks to global roaming systems is an important step toward further fueling the convenience, productivity benefits and market acceptance of these services. Boingo and Wificom have integrated their individual authentication servers, which enables roaming by securely passing client and billing information between the systems. The integrated service is already in use with a Wificom WISP customer in Brazil that has more than 167 hot spot locations operating in airports, cafes and hotels across the country. Under the agreement, Wificom has made Boingo compatibility a standard feature of the SAB Server and the two companies will work together to market the capabilities to WISPs around the world. "Roaming is very important to the Wi-Fi industry because it is the key to user satisfaction and the growth of the industry. This agreement reduces the integration challenges wireless ISPs face when opening their networks," said Dave Hagan, Boingo president and COO. "Wificom is an innovator in this field and a great addition to the Boingo ecosystem of industry partners." "Wificom has had success with the SAB Server because we help WISPs build both their networks and their businesses and the addition of this Boingo integration capability adds a lot of value to the service creation and billing capabilities that are at the heart of our solution," said Mikko Riepula, CEO of Wificom. "From the beginning we have built in various forms of roaming, and in addition to inter-operator roaming, joining with an aggregator like Boingo makes sense to many infrastructure builders. We’re looking forward to even greater success in the future by working together with Boingo." Wificom’s SAB Server is a complete back-end software solution for wireless Internet service providers. It integrates service creation, self-provisioning authentication, billing, rating, roaming, customer self-care, reporting, device independent content delivery and value-added location based services. The SAB Server has been successfully deployed by regional telecom operators, IT integrators, and WISPs in more than 20 countries worldwide. The Boingo Roaming System integrates the networks of more than 70 hot spot operators worldwide into a single roaming system that is easily and securely accessible by end users. The private-label Boingo software solution includes award-winning client software and back-end software platforms for roaming, billing, mediation and clearinghouse services. About About Wificom Wificom is a premier supplier of WLAN backend billing and service management products for the global broadband and wireless services industries. Wificom’s SAB Server™ is an all-in-one solution that streamlines rollout of hotspot services and has built a track record with the fastest time to market for any service provider. SAB Server™ integrates service creation, self-provisioning, authentication, billing, rating, roaming, customer self-care, reporting, device independent content delivery and value-added location-based services. Wificom was founded at the birth of the WLAN expansion in 2000 and is headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with offices in Sophia Antipolis, France. Wificom is a privately held company, backed by Europe’s leading venture capital firm, 3i Group. « back to Press Releases |
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