WorldWideWireless. This word means paradise to me, and probably to a lot of people like me as well. What is it ? Boingo, one of the biggest hotspotproviders in the world, has understood that timebased plans and rates are things from the past. They have discovered that it is all about flatfee, and introduced a wifi plan that shakes the planet : 39 USD p/m for worldwide hotspot use. Boingo currently has 27,000 hotspots in North America, 23,000 in Asia and 51,000 in Europe. In euros the service will cost 29 euro p/m. The price is icredibly good.



Interesting detail is that Boingo has made a deal with FON in order to achieve this massive network of hotspots :

Boingo Wireless Inc., the world's leading wholesale network aggregator and operator of neutral-host Wi-Fi networks, today announced it has signed a roaming agreement with FON, a Madrid-based company, that, when integrated, will provide access to an additional 130,000 hot spot locations - more than doubling the company's network size.FON Blog

I have used Boingo a lot on my travels to the USA last year.




More on the subject at E-Commerce News.
Another good read is here.