Boingo to drop roaming charges on hotspot network
By Darren Murph 
posted Jun 25th 2007 6:55PM
posted Jun 25th 2007 6:55PM
Ah, Boingo just keeps getting sweeter. After showing off its mobile service and partnering with FON, now the WiFi operator is making it even cheaper to hop online via its worldwide hotspot network. The company has announced that it will be hitting us up with a flat-rate service for $39 per month, which will enable users to utilize "more than 100,000 WiFi hotspots" across the globe sans roaming charges. Of course, this won't impact those Boingo users who manage to stay within the confines of the US of A, but globetrotters will certainly appreciate the end of per-minute roaming charges when surfing abroad. [Warning: read link requires subscription]
Finally! Now if only t-mobile would follow suit.
I've only paid for Boingo once, at an airport in Brazil (either Sao Paulo or Salvador, I forget which). I had a loooong time before my flight and it was a lifesaver.
t-mobile charges like $39 per hour for wifi these days
My free laFONERA = DD-WRT, good luck connecting to that suckers...
It's an interesting idea, but I noticed that 4 out of the 6 hotspots in my city are free to everyone--Boingo has 'em listed as though they were part of the deal with Boingo, when they're actually just plain old free wifi spots. I would suggest that anyone planning to subscribe first compare Boingo's location list with a free wifi list, and see whether it's really worth it or not for the areas they plan to be in.