Boingo Wireless said it opened Boingo Passpoint, a...
Boingo Wireless said it opened Boingo Passpoint, a commercial Next Generation Hotspot Wi-Fi network, at Chicago’s O'Hare International Airport. The Boingo Passpoint network enables “seamless” roaming and carrier offload, automatic network identification, authentication and encryption without requiring user intervention, Boingo…
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said. The network is available for end-to-end testing by mobile carriers, Wi-Fi operators and smartphone manufacturers, Boingo said. “We believe that carrier offload will be an important growth driver for Boingo and the Wi-Fi industry at large, especially as standards-based seamless offload methods like this become more prevalent in market,” Boingo CEO David Hagan in a news release. “The sheer volume of users in high-volume, high-traffic locations like O'Hare Airport creates data demand thresholds that can tax traditional mobile networks; Wi-Fi offload via Passpoint creates additional data capacity for carriers without forcing users to jump through hoops.”