Liberty Global, the largest international cable company will be deploying Devicescape's solution across its European mobile footprint.
The solution allows operators to enhance their customers’ smartphone connectivity experience with automated access to Devicescape’s Curated Virtual Network (CVN) of amenity Wi-Fi access points. The CVN gives Liberty Global a powerful complement to its cellular offering, enabling a market-leading integrated connectivity service.
The agreement between Devicescape and Liberty Global builds on a successful implementation of the Devicescape solution by Virgin Media, Liberty Global’s UK operation, announced in February 2014.
The announcement by Liberty Global comes as a response to the increasing competitive pressure from cable operators and disruptive market newcomers positioning Wi-Fi at the heart of their wireless connectivity offerings, said Devicescape.
Graeme Oxby, Managing Director, European Mobile Operations, Liberty Global
Wi-Fi is essential to our mobile strategy, boosting coverage and capacity — particularly indoors — while driving economic efficiencies which we can pass on to our customers. By combining Wi-Fi and cellular as we are able to with the Devicescape solution, we are also delivering a significant improvement to the customer experience.
Dave Fraser, CEO, Devicescape
More importantly for the wider industry, this is the first top tier deployment of a service that truly integrates cellular with the huge resource of free, intentionally shared public Wi-Fi.
