SANTA MONICA, Calif., and AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 22 -- Boingo
Wireless and Motive (Company
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service-provisioning solutions that simplify the installation of bundled
Wi-Fi and DSL or cable modem broadband services.
The agreement enables the companies to go to market with service
provisioning software that allows end-user customers to properly configure
their PCs and related CPE devices for both broadband and Wi-Fi services.
The agreement fits within the Boingo(TM) Platform Services Wi-Fi service
offering.
"Boingo believes that the leading Wi-Fi providers will be those voice,
data, or Internet service providers that can effectively bring the service
to their large customer bases," said Dave Hagan, Boingo president and COO.
"From a customer's perspective, a broadband and Wi-Fi bundled service is
very natural because once users are accustomed to the speed of broadband in
their home or office, they don't want to return to dial-up speeds on the
road."
"Partnerships with companies like Boingo have enabled Motive to give
carriers a competitive edge, allowing them to stay ahead of CPE deployment
complexities and bring new services to market quickly and
cost-effectively," said Kenny Van Zant, executive vice president of
Motive's Consumer Business Unit. "Bringing technology from market leaders
in both broadband and Wi-Fi together in one offering creates a compelling
solution."
Among broader service management capabilities, Motive's software allows
carriers to seamlessly deploy DSL modems, cable modems, and other
residential gateway devices, reducing the cost and time to market for
launching new services.
Boingo is the leading Wi-Fi network aggregator partnering more than 50 hot
spot operators to build a roaming system with more than 5,000 Wi-Fi hot
spots under contract in the U.S., Europe, Japan, Australia, Latin America,
India and Canada.
Through Boingo Platform Services, the company packages its roaming system
with its award-winning client software and back-office services for
managing roaming and billing, and provides it on a completely private-label
basis to carriers, managed service providers and ISPs. Boingo's announced
Platform Services partners include EarthLink, Fiberlink, Infonet Services
Corp., MCI, Telecom Italia and T-Mobile USA.
About Boingo Wireless
Boingo Wireless, Inc. is an ultra-high-speed wireless Internet service
available in thousands of locations such as hotels, airports, cafes, and
other public places. Both directly and through major ISP and carrier
partners, Boingo provides business travelers with a wireless broadband
Internet connection to improve productivity while on the road. Through its
Wi-Fi software, Boingo makes finding and connecting to Wi-Fi networks
point-and-click simple and secure. EarthLink founder and chairman Sky
Dayton founded Boingo in 2001 and serves as its CEO. More information about
Boingo is available at http://www.boingo.com/ .
About Motive
Motive is a leading provider of service management software that enables
companies to build management and service capabilities directly into their
technology products and services. This helps companies improve customer
productivity and satisfaction, create new revenue opportunities, decrease
cost-of-change and reduce capital and labor expense. Motive's service
management software has been used in connection with more than 30 million
technology products worldwide by companies such as Bell Canada, BellSouth,
British Telecommunications, cablecom, Charter Communications, Cox
Communications, Deutsche Telekom, EMC, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hyperion,
Lawson Software, Mercury Interactive, NTL, SBC Communications, Telenet,
Telewest, TELUS, Time Warner Cable, VERITAS Software, and Verizon. For more
information, visit http://www.motive.com/
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