Posted: 05th Dec, 2003 By: MarkJ
One of the UKs broadband wireless LAN (Wi-Fi) public hotspot providers, Broadreach, has extended its roaming agreements by teaming with rivals iPass and Gric:
The company's own customers, meanwhile, will be able to bill their access fees to their mobile phone accounts, thanks to a tie-in with Excilan. Users log into the ReadytoSurf access point with their mobile phone number instead of a username. They're called back and told the connection fee. Pressing the '1' key authorises payment and access.
Excilan currently provides the service to 37 Wi-Fi providers in Europe and Canada. It has deals with a number of European mobile operators, but currently O2 is the only one in the UK.More @
The Register.