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Wireless industry expert TSI and leading Wi-Fi roaming provider Boingo Wireless™ team up to promote seamless WLAN and WWAN roaming to drive mass adoption and increased revenues for wireless operators TAMPA - July 7, 2003 - TSI Telecommunication Services Inc. (TSI) (www.tsiconnections.com), a global communications technology company, and Boingo Wireless™, the leading roaming provider for Wi-Fi Hot Spots, today announced an update to their strategic relationship to accelerate adoption of wireless data roaming by wireless operators and subscribers. The two companies will combine TSI's long-term wireless industry clearing and settlement expertise with Boingo™'s Platform Services to establish cooperative roaming services for Wi-Fi WLAN networks and WWAN networks. Wireless Operators can leverage Boingo's Platform Services to add fully branded Wi-Fi WLAN services to their existing product offerings, while utilizing their existing relationship with TSI to integrate these services with their existing systems, including combining authentication and billing data into a seamless reporting stream to simplify customer billing. "By combining TSI's authentication, billing and reporting expertise with Boingo's Hot Spot roaming network and customer software, wireless operators get a quick-to-market solution that unites Wi-Fi and wireless WAN," stated TSI CEO Ed Evans. "With TSI and Boingo, wireless operators get the best of both worlds - traditional roaming settlement and leading Wi-Fi services." "Wireless Internet access is on the verge of exploding in the United States and abroad," said David Hagan, president of Boingo Wireless. "Wireless operators need to be prepared to address customer requests for a combined Wi-Fi and wireless WAN service. Using Boingo's Platform Services with TSI's clearing, settlement and roaming facilitation services, operators can make WLAN and WWAN services appear seamless - both to the customer and through billing processing." About TSI TSI Telecommunication Services Inc. (TSI) is a global communications technology company specializing in innovative business and network engineering solutions that manage and interconnect voice and data systems in 26 countries throughout North America, Central and Latin America, Asia Pacific and Europe. TSI provides technology interoperability, network services and call processing to more than 250 mobile operators, wireline carriers, emerging telecom market entrants and business customers. Products include SS7 intelligent network solutions, clearing and settlement services, voice and data roaming facilitation, fraud management, revenue enhancement solutions and more than 25 other integrated services. TSI is a privately owned corporation headquartered in Tampa, Fla., U.S.A., with offices in major cities throughout the United States and offices in Amsterdam, London, Luxembourg, Beijing and Hong Kong. For more information, visit www.tsiconnections.com. CUSIP: 87287VAB8 Bloomberg Tickers: TSITEL (Bond) 32497Z (Equity) About Boingo Wireless Boingo Wireless, Inc. is an ultra-high-speed wireless Internet service now available in hundreds of locations across the country, such as hotels, airports, cafes, and other public places. Boingo provides business travelers with a wireless broadband Internet connection to improve productivity while on the road. Through its free Wi-Fi software, Boingo makes finding and connecting to Wi-Fi networks point-and-click simple and secure. EarthLink founder and chairman Sky Dayton founded Boingo in 2001 and serves as its CEO. To sign up for Boingo service, or to download Boingo's free Wi-Fi software, visit http://www.boingo.com or call 1-800-U-BOINGO. Cautions about Forward Looking Statements This press release contains "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the TSI's plans, intentions and expectations. Such statements are inherently subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected. Given these concerns, investors and analysts should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. TSI Telecommunication Services Inc. 1-888-724-3579 Outside of North America: 1- 813-209-5944 www.tsiconnections.com « back to Press Releases | ||||||
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