Articles tagged with: Bt and Roaming

Starbucks Switching Wi-Fi Providers in UK and Ireland

Starbucks is to switch its in-store Wi-Fi service from T-Mobile to British Telecom, covering more than 650 Starbucks coffeehouses in the UK and Ireland. The first stores will have the service installed this week and the roll out will be completed by the end of the summer 2009.  more

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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

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INTERVIEW: EU Reding: Telcos Must Cut Data Roaming Fees More

LONDON -(Dow Jones)- European mobile phone operators must continue to cut data roaming charges and ensure customers are properly informed of them, European Union Communications Commissioner Viviane Reding said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires this week.  more

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Comfone Launches Remote Wi-Fi Test Service

Comfone says that it has launched a Wi-Fi remote test service to facilitate the testing and rollout of Wi-Fi roaming services. The service enables operators and software suppliers to remotely test the inter-operability between WISPr client software and over 30 test hotspots located in a single location in Bern, Switzerland.  more

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