I’ve heard quite a lot about Boing Wireless, the hotspot service provider. I’ve written about them before, I’ve signed-up to use them now and again and, if memory serves, they knocked me (and an array of other mobile bloggers) a 10-hour free trial for the duration of Mobile World Congress, an action that I thought very, very smart at the time.
My problem is that I spent most of Mobile World Congress this year being professionally stressed-to-hell so I never got a chance to use Boingo.
I now frequently find myself in wifi areas for extended periods of time. For example today I was in San Francisco Airport for about 3 hours then (for the connecting flight) Los Angeles Airport for about 5 hours. They’re covered by T-Mobile’s hotspot service. I’ve signed up for that, but the helpful (i.e. not at all) T-Mobile USA billing system negated to send me my username and password.
So a few weeks ago I paid — I dunno — a tenner or something stupid for 24 hours access to the T-Mobile hotspot in San Francisco Airport.
Then I got home, hunted for Boingo and signed-up with an account.
$9.95 a month buys you access to 100,000 hotspots. Done. Your login details work on anything that has WiFi capabilities. So I took the liberty of downloading Boingo’s clients for my T-Mobile G1 and my iPhone 3G — and of course the desktop client for my Apple.
The Boingo client is brilliant. It simply runs in the background and the moment it detects a compatible network, the window pops up and it logs you in. There’s no need to visit a sodding webpage, select ‘boingo’ and type in your username and password details. The client does it all for you.
The mobile clients work beautifully too. There’s nothing worse than having to fiddle about with your mobile device browser trying to initiate a connection.
If you travel a lot, have a look at Boingo. I’ve been thoroughly, thoroughly enjoying using it.
Boingo are giving away five year-long accounts on their Facebook page if you give them a good enough reason as to why you deserve one. More details on their Twitter feed.
Boingo has quickly become my preferred Wifi service http://tinyurl.com/nsgo4r
Its an amazing service
Simplified login, on laptop or on mobile is what makes it so great.
I rave about it to friends constantly and its one of the very few services to get 100% positive feedback from friends.
Boingo has quickly become my preferred Wifi service http://tinyurl.com/nsgo4r
Aye it simply *just works* 😀
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right? where did you find the 9.99 a month option? they seem to only offer 21.95 a month for north american, or 59.99 a month for world wide roaming (american's always define the world as gee not the usa 🙂 suggestions welcome. i too would like the 9.99 option.. point it out please. curious minds want to know.
Above right on the Boingo homepage -9.95 dollars? I'm sure that's what
I'm paying.
My company uses ipass. It seems similar to boingo from what you describe. The ipass client works on many platforms, I have it on a S60 phone and on windows but I know people using it on mac as well as windows mobile. looking at their web site they don't seem to be targeting grand public but only corporate.
I don't eneblae wifi by defualt as it uses a lot of energy but when I start the browser, as an example, my phone asks me which Access I want to use and I select ipass, ipass will then fire up and show a list of available access points with a specific icon when it is one available through ipass cloud.
Works well here in the uk with btconnect. I also used it on tmob US network last year.
great, hope it works here in china.. haha. off to try it.
Above right on the Boingo homepage -9.95 dollars? I'm sure that's what
I'm paying.
My company uses ipass. It seems similar to boingo from what you describe. The ipass client works on many platforms, I have it on a S60 phone and on windows but I know people using it on mac as well as windows mobile. looking at their web site they don't seem to be targeting grand public but only corporate.
I don't eneblae wifi by defualt as it uses a lot of energy but when I start the browser, as an example, my phone asks me which Access I want to use and I select ipass, ipass will then fire up and show a list of available access points with a specific icon when it is one available through ipass cloud.
Works well here in the uk with btconnect. I also used it on tmob US network last year.
Thanks man, just what I was looking for. Thanks so much…