October 31, 2007

Boingo Wifi roams into Russia

I owe an apology to Boingo. We don’t pay as much attention to them here as we should. They are really the only viable alterative to higher priced EVDO and EGDE services here in the US for the net dependent road warrior. Just announced: Boingo users now have access to Golden Telecom’s POPs is Russia - more than 7500 in Moscow alone.

Boingo Wireless Inc., the world’s leading wholesale network aggregator and operator of neutral-host WiFi networks, today announces the signing of a roaming agreement with Golden Telecom (NASDAQ: GLDN) — the leading provider of integrated communication and Internet services in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Recently, the Golden WiFi network in Moscow, officially recognized as the world largest metropolitan WiFi network, has been added to the Boingo® Roaming System. (from CNN)

This should greatly simplify the lives of people traveling to the CIS with their laptops. To the uninitiated, getting connectivity on any mobile device at any price from the west in Russia has not been easy if even possible in the past. It’s too bad cellular operators can’t manage this as easily - but now there is no need for them.

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