IP: Sky Dayton at it again [ with url djf]

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Public Space Wi-Fi's Transforming Event

The face of public space wireless service changes Thursday as Sky Dayton, 
founder of the dial-up Internet service provider Earthlink, launches Boingo 
Wireless. Boingo will build no hot spots. Instead, they are aggregating the 
network infrastructure of other companies and wrapping it up through a 
single user account, a single bill, and a single set of pricing. Dayton 
summarized the new firm's thrust: "Boingo Wireless is a non-infrastructure 
wireless ISP."

Their initial launch includes over 750 hot spots; Dayton estimates Boingo 
will encompass 5,000 by the end of 2002. The company did not announce 
partner networks, but Dayton said that their partners currently represent 
about 90 percent of hot spots outside of the MobileStar network. 
(MobileStar filed for bankruptcy in early December 2001; VoiceStream had a 
proposal to acquire its assets in early January 2002.)

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