Sprint and Boingo Bring Seamless Wi-Fi to Millions of Sprint Travelers
April 30 2015 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
Strategic Agreement Enables Access to Boingo
Wi-Fi Networks in 35 Major U.S. Airports
Boingo Wireless, the leading DAS and Wi-Fi provider, and Sprint
today announced a multi-year Wi-Fi agreement, enabling access to
seamless and secure Boingo Wi-Fi networks in 35 major U.S.
airports. Leveraging Boingo’s industry-leading network technology,
connecting to Wi-Fi will become as easy and safe as cellular.
Sprint devices within proximity of a Boingo hotspot can
automatically connect to the Wi-Fi network seamlessly, providing
service at the fastest speeds available, be that cellular from
Sprint or Wi-Fi from Boingo. The auto-authenticating Wi-Fi
connections are available at no additional charge to all Sprint
customers with capable devices, and usage while connected to Wi-Fi
does not count towards a customer’s monthly service plan. Sprint
and Boingo conducted successful market trials with millions of
Sprint handsets, which demonstrated the consumer benefits of
effortless authentication onto Boingo’s network.
“With Wi-Fi being the world’s largest wireless ecosystem, we
view it as a highly complementary layer to our network,” said
Stephen Bye, Sprint CTO. “By enabling customers to move seamlessly
between secure Wi-Fi and cellular, our customers will have a better
mobile experience in more locations, all while lowering their cost
of data usage.”
The Sprint network improves daily and the company continues to
invest in solutions that deliver the consistent reliability,
capacity, and speed that customers demand. As service expands to
additional Sprint handsets, customers with Passpoint-enabled
devices can be connected to Boingo’s “Passpoint Secure” networks at
airports nationwide. By utilizing Boingo’s “Passpoint Secure”
networks, customers can enjoy a simpler mobile experience with
seamless Wi-Fi authentication and WPA2 enterprise-grade encryption
technology.
“Boingo's relationship with Sprint removes the traditional
barriers between Wi-Fi and cellular service,” said David Hagan,
Chief Executive Officer for Boingo Wireless. “Sprint is a market
leader with the integration of Wi-Fi and cellular, which is a very
customer centric solution to provide an always-best-connected
experience through either network.”
About Sprint
Sprint (NYSE: S) is a communications services company
that creates more and better ways to connect its customers to
the things they care about most. Sprint served nearly 56
million connections as of Dec. 31, 2014, and is widely recognized
for developing, engineering and deploying innovative technologies,
including the first wireless 4G service from a national carrier in
the United States; leading no-contract brands including Virgin
Mobile USA, Boost Mobile, and Assurance Wireless; instant national
and international push-to-talk capabilities; and a global Tier 1
Internet backbone. Sprint has been named to the Dow Jones
Sustainability Index (DJSI) North America for the past four years.
You can learn more and visit Sprint at www.sprint.com
or www.facebook.com/sprint
and www.twitter.com/sprint.
About Boingo Wireless
Boingo Wireless, Inc. (NASDAQ: WIFI) helps the world stay
connected. Our vast footprint of small cell networks cover more
than a million DAS and Wi-Fi locations and reaches more than one
billion consumers annually – in places as varied as airports,
stadiums, universities, and military bases. For more information
about the Boingo story, visit www.boingo.com.
Boingo, Boingo Wireless, the Boingo Wireless Logo and Don’t Just
Go. Boingo are registered trademarks of Boingo Wireless, Inc. All
other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners.
Cautionary Statement Regarding Forward-Looking
Statements
This press release contains “forward-looking statements” that
involves risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Forward-looking
statements can be identified by words such as “anticipates,”
“intends,” “plans,” “seeks” “believes,” “estimates,” “expects” and
similar references to future periods. These forward-looking
statements include the quotations from management in this press
release, as well as any statements regarding Boingo’s strategic
plans and future guidance. Forward-looking statements are based on
the company’s current expectations and assumptions regarding its
business, the economy and other future conditions. Since
forward-looking statements relate to the future, they are subject
to inherent uncertainties, risks and changes in circumstances that
are difficult to predict. The company’s actual results may differ
materially from those contemplated by the forward-looking
statements. Important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements
include regional, national or global political, economic, business,
competitive, market and regulatory conditions, as well as other
risk and uncertainties described more fully in documents filed with
or furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”),
including Boingo’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2014
filed with the SEC on March 16, 2015. Any forward-looking statement
made by Boingo in this press release speaks only as of the date on
which it is made. Factors or events that could cause the company’s
actual results to differ may emerge from time to time, and it is
not possible for Boingo to predict all of them. Boingo undertakes
no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement,
whether as a result of new information, future developments or
otherwise, except as may be required by law.
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SprintAdrienne Norton,
425-256-7014adrienne.norton@sprint.comorBoingo Wireless, Inc.Katie
O’Neill, 310-689-1163koneill@boingo.com
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