BT Openzone
BT's wi-fi parts ways with The Cloud
News BT Openzone's wi-fi roaming deal with The Cloud will end on Thursday, after the two communications firms failed to resolve unspecified issues over commercial terms. A statement sent to silicon.com sister... [30 Sep 2008]
Pay-as-you-go for iPhone 3G
News Pay-as-you-go iPhone customers will get 12 months unlimited browsing and wi-fi at hotspots from O2's partners BT Openzone and The Cloud, subject to excessive usage policy. O2 UK has revealed how much it... [01 Sep 2008]
O2 offers business tariffs for 3G iPhone
News O2 said iPhone business customers will be able to have several iPhones and other devices on one account, and all on the same bill.iPhone users also get unlimited data browsing, email downloads and unlimited access to 9,500 wi-fi hotspots... [10 Jun 2008]
Broadband Britain embraces wi-fi sharing love
News By sharing their own connections using their BT Home Hub, Fon customers can use any of the 193,000 Fon and BT Openzone global hotspots and connections within BT's 13... [05 Jun 2008]
Wi-fi adds to courtroom drama
News Visitors and people working at most Crown courts in England and Wales can now gain internet access via BT Openzone wi-fi hotspots. HMCS funded the wi-fi deployment and will receive a percentage of the... [28 May 2008]
BT business hubs to be wi-fi hotspots
News In return for adding a residential footprint to BT's Openzone network, those customers got to use other users' FON hotspots on and off the BT network for free. Hughes stressed that, as... [22 May 2008]
Coffee Republic to offer free wi-fi
News Rival coffee chain Caffè Nero launched BT Openzone wi-fi across 330 of its coffee shops across the UK, replacing the Surf and Sip service. Coffee Republic will become the first UK coffee chain to provide... [14 Apr 2008]
Workers, wi-fi and coffee shops: The perfect blend
News The ICM survey was commissioned by BT to mark the launch of BT Openzone wi-fi going live in more than 330 Caffè Nero coffee shops across the UK. BT... [07 Apr 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 28.03.08
Round-Up BA has signed up with BT to provide the Openzone service in its 25 UK lounges - including the six at Heathrow's newly opened Terminal 5 - over the next three years. Planes, trains and automobiles - the... [28 Mar 2008]
Free wi-fi wings its way to BA lounges
News BA has signed up with BT to provide the Openzone service in its 25 UK lounges - including the six at Heathrow's newly opened Terminal 5 - over the next three years. Users will be directed to the BA... [27 Mar 2008]
Poll: Wi-fi sharing not for everybody
News Speaking at the time of the BT-FON tie-in announcement, managing director of BT Group, Consumer, Gavin Patterson, explained how the wi-fi sharing deal would work: "If [Total Broadband customers] are... [15 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tear up that boarding pass...
Comment And what would the likes of BT Openzone, T-Mobile et al think as they offer their chargeable services at such high-traffic - in every sense - locations? I'm lucky when it comes to travelling for work. [08 Oct 2007]
McDonald's: 'Do you want free wi-fi with that?'
News McDonald's already has a relationship with BT Openzone, and retains the carrier as a telecoms partner, but has also signed up The Cloud as a hotspot access provider. Fast food chain McDonald's is about... [06 Oct 2007]
BT gets into bed with FON
News By doing so, the telco has effectively extended its Openzone wi-fi network across the three million BT Home Hubs - or at least those Home Hubs whose users agree to share their broadband connection. If... [04 Oct 2007]
Missing email tops business-travel worry list
News More than half of the 511 workers surveyed for BT Openzone said the amount of time they need to spend out of the office has increased over the past two years. Missing vital emails while on the road has... [17 Jul 2007]