Boingo Adds Tokyo to Wi-Fi Roaming Network
5/9/07 – Santa Monica-based Boingo Wireless, the wi-fi network aggregator and operator, today announced it has entered into a roaming agreement with Tokyo-based livedoor that adds the company’s Tokyo metropolitan wi-fi network to the Boingo Roaming System.
Boingo says that with thousands of power-pole mounted access points, livedoor’s network covers 80 percent of the outdoor area located within the Yamanote Line, the circular train line that defines the boundaries of metropolitan Tokyo.
The agreement with livedoor marks the second Asian hot zone to join the Boingo Roaming System and, according to the company, is the latest installment in Boingo’s continuing effort to expand its network into business hubs throughout China and Hong Kong, Taiwan, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia.
In a nod to international business travelers, Boingo claims to combine more than 60,000 hot spot locations from more than 150 leading wi-fi operators into one worldwide network. The company says its users can connect to any of these locations with a single account using the company’s free wi-fi client software, which combines more than 660 network names into one “Boingo Wireless” network to simplify identifying and connecting to commercial wi-fi networks.
Boingo, founded in 2001 by EarthLink and Helio founder Sky Dayton, also provides access to this network to partners that include BT Infonet, EarthLink, Fiberlink, Nextel Communications, Verizon Business and Telecom Italia.
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