According to Boingo, following a successful market trial with millions of handsets that demonstrated the power of automatic and seamless authentication onto Boingo’s network, this long-term agreement covers the carrier’s entire smartphone customer base. When the carrier’s smartphone customer comes into range of a Boingo Wi-Fi network, the system will automatically connect the customer’s device to the network, requiring no action from the end-user. Additionally, this agreement encompasses Passpoint-certified mobile devices to leverage seamless Wi-Fi authentication for carrier offload via Boingo’s “Passpoint Secure” network which includes WPA2 enterprise-grade encryption technology.
Boingo Wireless has signed a deal with a tier one U.S. wireless carrier to provide automatic WiFi offloading feature for its mobile subscribers. The multi-year deal is said to include Wi-Fi offloading service for up to 40 million of the carrier’s handsets at Boingo’s managed and operated networks, as well as the option to auto-authenticate onto Boingo’s aggregated network of Wi-Fi hotspots.
It is clear that with skyrocketing mobile data traffic on cellular networks, the need for carrier Wi-Fi offload has now arrived. This is a milestone we have been working toward for years, and we believe this agreement is just the first step in what’s to come. True, seamless Wi-Fi offload is here.
