Verizon Kicks Off Hot Spots
News The service provider is collaborating with Wayport, a company that offers nationwide wireless Internet access using the 802.11b standard. As Verizon customers increasingly rely on high-speed wireless service to meet their data needs, they will...
[August 6, 2003, 16:00]
AT&T Turns To Wi-Fi
News For a daily or monthly fee, AT&T subscribers will have access to Wayport's "Wi-Fi" network, available in more than 475 hotels and 10 airports around the nation. AT&T's agreement with Wayport may indicate a shift in the carrier's wireless data...
[January 29, 2003, 9:35]
Dell And Startup Team On Wireless Access For Notebooks
News On Wednesday, Dell and four-year-old Wayport will announce a cross-marketing arrangement for selling notebooks enabled for wireless networking and Wayport's service that permits consumers to make wireless notebook connections in wired hotel...
[February 21, 2001, 9:25]
Palm Adds Net Phoning To Wi-Fi Handheld
News Palm is also working with Wayport and WiFinder to improve the consumer's ability to find and access hot spots. Wayport is offering a 30-day free trial to its service, which makes hot spot access available in areas such as hotels and airports.
[May 30, 2003, 8:21]
Microsoft Puts Handhelds In The Wi-Fi Hot Seat
News According to a promotion introduced on Monday, anyone who buys a PDA (personal digital assistant) or other device that uses Microsoft's Windows Mobile software will get a free month of hot-spot surfing from T-Mobile, Boingo Wireless and Wayport.
[June 24, 2003, 9:47]
Microsoft Moves Into Hot Spot Security
News T-Mobile and Swisscom, both of which have Wi-Fi offerings across several countries, have been unveiled as customer wins, and Microsoft rounded up supporting testimony from mainly North American companies running thousands of Wi-Fi network access...
[October 13, 2003, 10:20]
Group Attempts Wireless Unity
News Suits have included Agere Systems against Intersil and Proxim against Intersil, as well as against Symbol Technologies, Standard Microsystems and Wayport. Via Licensing is forming a group devoted to making licensing of 802.11-related patents easier...
[March 3, 2004, 11:05]
Cisco Installs 19 Airport Hot Spots
News In the US, providers include Voicestream and Wayport are putting WLANs into airport lounges and other public places, while in Europe, Megabeam is getting licences for similar sites. Network giant Cisco Systems is putting its Aironet wireless LANs...
[July 12, 2002, 9:20]
McDonald's Beefs Up Wi-Fi Combo
News The restaurant chain also has a test program with network company Wayport underway in more than 75 restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area. McDonald's is super-sizing its Wi-Fi trial with wireless networking start-up Cometa Networks.
[July 30, 2003, 11:20]
McDonald's Upsizes Wi-Fi Plans
News San Francisco Bay Area locations are served by established Wi-Fi provider Wayport. Fast-food chain McDonald's said on Tuesday that it plans to sell Internet access at 100 locations in the Chicago and Milwaukee areas.
[August 13, 2003, 10:14]
Support Grows For Rural DSL Alternative
News WiMAX is also initially looking to draft wireless "hot-spot" operators -- such as Cometa Networks, T-Mobile and Wayport -- to support 802.16a technology. Gear makers have joined a nonprofit group looking to promote wireless access to high-speed...
[April 9, 2003, 9:17]
Wi-Fi And Fries?
News Cometa Networks, Toshiba's SurfHere and Wayport are vying for the business, and the company's decision could dramatically boost the winners' prospects. And McDonald's has a real estate advantage there, according to Dan Lowden, vice president of...
[March 12, 2004, 14:25]
WiFi For Wireless LANs
News WECA members include Cisco, 3Com, Lucent Technologies, Symbol Technologies, Nokia, Philips, Fujitsu, Sony, Siemens, AMD, Samsung, Telxon and Wayport, among others. Why can't wireless local area network (LAN) hardware all just get along?
[March 16, 2000, 9:27]
Is Roaming Coming To Wi-Fi?
News A Boingo customer can now roam onto the 450 Wayport hot spots inside airport executive lounges as well as onto Surf And Sip networks. The popularity of Wi-Fi -- which features networking nodes that use the 802.11b wireless technology to broadcast...
[September 11, 2002, 8:10]
Tech's Heavyweights Go Wireless
News Michael Dell, of Dell Computer, said his company has signed a pact with Wayport, whose system allows consumers to make wireless Net connections in hotel lobbies or airports. The Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association show used to be...
[March 21, 2001, 7:53]
Nintendo And McDonalds Sign Supersized Wi-Fi Deal
News On Monday, Nintendo announced an agreement with wireless Internet provider Wayport to set up free access to the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection in almost 6,000 McDonald's in the US. Traditionally, the idea of seeing anything toad, turtle, or donkey...
[October 19, 2005, 12:10]
Boingo, Said Apple
News The company's network covers 12,000 hot spots from roaming partners such as Wayport and Surf & Sip, allowing British users to surf in areas as diverse as the British Library, Caffé Nero coffee shops or Wetherspoon's pubs -- nearly 4,000 locations...
[January 11, 2005, 10:25]
MCI Spreads Wi-Fi Roaming With Boingo Deal
News Next year, MCI also plans to add an additional 3,000 hot spots via Boingo and MCI's other partner, WayPort. MCI will more than triple its footprint of Wi-Fi access points through a partnership with Boingo Wireless, MCI announced on Tuesday.
[December 17, 2003, 11:40]
BT Openzone Cuts Prices, Adds Hotspots
News Openzone has also added around 6,000 hotspots, 2,500 of which are in Europe, through roaming deals with operators including iBahn, Wayport and Vex. BT Openzone has cut its rates for Wi-Fi access, while announcing the addition of thousands of new...
[October 15, 2008, 13:16]
UK Wi-Fi Market Is Hotting Up
News Wayport, which has built over 450 Wi-Fi hot spots in America, operates one site in Dublin and two in London, UK Explorer has one site at Birmingham Airport, and Starbucks is currently conducting trials at two London stores.
[November 18, 2002, 16:52]
