Customers of BT Openzone's public wireless (Wi-Fi) Hotspot services will be frustrated to learn that the operator has failed to reach a new roaming agreement with The Cloud. The original deal allowed both operators to increase their wireless footprint by sharing network coverage, which will now end on 2nd October 2008:


The Register reports that The Cloud has begun offering disgruntled BT Openzone subscribers 30 days' free Wi-Fi if they swap to their services. Meanwhile BT Openzone still has a lot of Hotspots, including 3,000 in the UK and 40,000 worldwide:


We question the wisdom of BT's move given the growing popularity of Mobile Broadband services, which have a tendency to make Wi-Fi Hotspots look less than attractive.