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When in roam: Openzone gets access to US Wi-Fi
News Wi-Fi operator BT Openzone has gone transatlantic by agreeing a roaming deal with American operator Airpath Wireless. The agreement follows an earlier tie-up between BT and TeliaSonera, which gives Openzone customers access to Wi-Fi networks in...
[July 23, 2003, 12:32]
Openzone lands airport Wi-Fi deal
News High-speed wireless connectivity will be available at 80 British Airways executive lounges at airports across the world, under a deal that BA has signed with BT Openzone. The agreement increases Openzone's global reach.
[February 19, 2004, 12:55]
Openzone boss optimistic about Wi-Fi take up
News Chris Clark, chief executive of BT Openzone, claimed on Thursday that Wi-Fi usage was accelerating fast in the UK. Speaking to ZDNet UK, Clarke said that Openzone's customer base had doubled in the last six months, and was growing by between 10 and...
[August 26, 2005, 14:30]
BT Openzone cuts prices, adds hotspots
News BT Openzone has cut its rates for Wi-Fi access, while announcing the addition of thousands of new hotspots to its network. On Tuesday, the provider introduced a flat rate, under the new Openzone Together plan, of £12.50 per month for unlimited...
[October 15, 2008, 13:16]
Wi-Fi Week: Should all hot spots be free?
News Anyone visiting one of its 1,700 Openzone Wi-Fi hot spots between 26 January and 1 February will be entitled to free, unlimited access to BT Openzone for seven days. On Monday, BT launched its wireless broadband week.
[January 27, 2004, 14:10]
BT slashes Wi-Fi tariffs
Talkback BT OpenZone forgot to mention that the price had DOUBLED for low-end subscribers. Unfortunately BT OpenZone seem to have forgotten that customers do have other choices. At the moment I get 120 mins/month for £10 - which is absolutely perfect for...
[August 10, 2004, 1:04]
BT kicks off commercial Wi-Fi network
News BT has launched BT Openzone -- its Wi-Fi service that gives laptop and PDA users high-speed wireless Internet access in selected locations. BT has been trialling BT Openzone, which currently consists of 20 hot spots, since June.
[August 2, 2002, 16:31]
BT's Wi-Fi lets go of The Cloud
News BT Openzone's Wi-Fi roaming deal with The Cloud will end on Thursday, after the two communications firms failed to resolve unspecified issues over commercial terms. The deal's expiry could drastically cut the number of hotspots BT Openzone...
[September 29, 2008, 17:02]
BT slashes Wi-Fi tariffs
News Wi-Fi operator BT Openzone is making big cuts to some of its service tariffs in the hope of getting more customers on board. A subscription to Openzone will now cost £25 per month for up to 4,000 minutes of access.
[July 27, 2004, 13:40]
BT to bundle Wi-Fi with broadband
News Customers will be able to buy a broadband connection for their home, a wireless modem, and a subscription to BT Openzone's Wi-Fi network all in one package from this autumn. BT Openzone was launched last summer, after the government legalised...
[May 19, 2003, 10:57]
BT revises its Wi-Fi prices
News BT is to slash the prices of its Openzone service in the hope of encouraging more companies to embrace Wi-Fi. The telco is creating a new corporate service with an up-front fee of £5 a month for each user, with additional charges depending on how...
[October 22, 2003, 15:10]
Wi-Fi networks kiss and make up
News From November, mobile workers whose company has taken out a subscription with either BT Openzone or T-Mobile will be able to use both Wi-Fi networks in the UK at no additional cost. BT Openzone recently slashed its prices, but a single monthly...
[October 21, 2004, 16:15]
Mobile operators to offer Wi-Fi via BT
News BT is turning itself into a Wi-Fi wholesaler by opening up its Openzone wireless network to other companies, a move that allows Vodafone and Orange to begin offering Wi-Fi access to their customers. The telco announced on Monday that it is now...
[September 29, 2003, 14:20]
BT to turn payphones into hot spots
News Tens of thousands of BT's public phone boxes could become Wi-Fi hot spots over the next few years, giving the telco's Openzone service a much larger presence across the UK. The telco announced on Monday that it is aiming to install BT Openzone...
[September 15, 2003, 16:10]
Railways set for Wi-Fi showdown
News BT Openzone, the pace-setter in the rollout of 802.11b, or Wi-Fi, hot spots across the UK, said last week that it expected to offer its service at railway stations in the near future, in its push to make Wi-Fi "widely available to businesspeople...
[February 3, 2003, 14:37]
UK Wi-Fi market is hotting up
News Megabeam, which is shaping up as the most serious rival to BT Openzone, released details last week of the 14 places where it plans to set up a Wi-Fi hot spot between now and the end of December. BT Openzone has taken a similar approach.
[November 18, 2002, 16:52]
Wi-Fi firms put onus on users for hotspot security
News In a demonstration aired on Watchdog on Thursday, security vendor Garlik sniffed wireless traffic at hotspots run by BT Openzone, The Cloud, and T-Mobile. BT Openzone responded to the demonstrated breach by saying that people using public Wi-Fi...
[November 2, 2009, 14:06]
BT turns business customers into Wi-Fi hotspots
News The latest version of the BT Business Total Broadband hub, unveiled on Monday, can effectively be turned into a BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspot — users can give their connectivity away, or sell their customers BT Openzone vouchers and keep 25 percent of...
[February 9, 2009, 15:49]
BT lures consumers with free Wi-Fi
News The telco, which currently runs around 1,700 hotspots in the UK under its Openzone brand, is hoping to expand this to more than 4,000 hot spots by the summer. In order to achieve this target, the company has reduced the cost of Openzone-in-a-Box...
[January 5, 2004, 13:55]
BT keeps quiet on Wi-Fi sharing talks
News Because Fusion handsets also work in BT's Openzone hotspots, this has allowed BT to establish a mobile network based entirely on unlicensed spectrum. The spokesperson also pointed out that BT's Wi-Fi footprint already comprises 2,000 Openzone...
[February 5, 2007, 12:46]
