Boingo Wireless - Wi-Fi Industry Basics

As the first and largest hotspot roaming aggregator, Boingo’s mission is to unite Wi-Fi hotspots into a seamless network. Boingo then enables major brands to rapidly offer the easiest, most powerful hotspot service to their millions of customers.

To accomplish this, Boingo created Boingo Platform Services, which includes the leading roaming network of Wi-Fi hotspots and the world’s most advanced Wi-Fi client software, all customized and delivered under the carrier’s or ISP’s brand.

Boingo has agreements with dozens of HSOs across the globe, more than any other roaming provider. The company has built the technology and systems necessary to turn these disparate networks into a single unified experience that can be offered to end users.

Boingo’s client software makes finding and connecting to both private Wi-Fi networks (in the home and office) and commercial public hotspots easy, all under one brand.

In addition to Wi-Fi, Boingo supports wireless wide area network (WWAN) technologies such as GPRS, CDMA and iDEN technologies, so end users will be able to move seamlessly between Wi-Fi hotspots and wide area networks through a single service.