Articles tagged with: Bt and Fon
BT Wi-Fi usage doubles in a year
Users of Wi-Fi hotspots operated by the UK's bt clocked up twice the number of minutes online between April and September 2008, than the same period last year. The half year figures, combining bt Openzone and bt FON are 100% up on the same period in 2007 and 57% up on the previous six months. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, wayport, meteor, bt-openzone, wireless-broadband, hotspots, wi-fi-alliance, UK
UK Wi-Fi Provider Halves Monthly Subscription Rates
bt, the UKs dominant landline operator has cut public Wi-Fi rates by up to 50 percent as it launched a new price structure. More than 2,500 extra European hotspots are also being added, bringing the choice of places to connect to more than 50,000 overseas, and over 100,000 UK and Ireland locations. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, roaming, swisscom, landline, 3, meteor, bt-openzone, wireless-broadband, hotspots, wlan, railway, UK
BT Launches Broadband Service with HTC Smartphones
The UKs dominant landline operator, bt is launching a "Total Broadband Anywhere" service which is packaging domestic broadband internet access along with a free HTC smartphone and access to bts public Wi-Fi network. more
Related Tags: wi-fi, windows-mobile, microsoft, smartphones, htc, landline, bts, bt-openzone, hotspots, UK
Wi-Fi Arrives on North Sea Oil Rigs
Oilfield services provider, Schlumberger and UK telco, bt have announced the
launch of a public wireless broadband service for offshore and remote oil and
gas drilling rigs and production platforms.
more
Related Tags: wi-fi, satellite, bt-openzone, hotspot, UK
BT Plans to Build World's Largest Free WiFi Network
The UK based British Telecom (bt) has agreed to create what it says will be the world's largest "free" WiFi network - in a deal with Spain's FON. Every person who agrees to share a small portion of their home broadband connection, by opening up a separate, secure channel on their wireless router, will be able to share the connection of any other member. bt Total Broadband customers will also be able to use bt's premium existing hotspot network bt Openzone, including 12 Wireless Cities. more
Related Tags: bt-group, bt-openzone, hotspot, hotspots, UK

