openzone hot spot
Islington sets up free Wi-Fi zone a mile long
News It's not so black and white as that," Belanger said, who believes that Islington-based mobile workers who currently pay to use a service such as BT Openzone are likely to continue doing so. In the US, the city of Philadelphia has overcome... [18 Apr 2005]
Vodafone embraces WLAN
News The deal has been done by working with BT Openzone, which now operates over 1,200 public hotspots. However, besides usually superior speed when in the vicinity of a hot spot, the mobile giant claims the new offering will be appealing because it... [01 Sep 2004]
The Bloor Perspective: Wi-Finding, dirty money and techs in the City
Comment Paying to be listed is the same model as most business directories and the relationship can go a little further with advertising and links through to the hotspot provider, as with BT Openzone. That's part of what HotSpot Hotel, a London-based... [09 Jan 2004]
UK to get 7,000 more Wi-Fi hotspots
News As a wholesale Wi-Fi operator, The Cloud installs the necessary equipment to create a hot spot and then allows selected network operators - such as BT Openzone - to access its network. UK Wi-Fi operator The Cloud's is set to increase its coverage... [09 Sep 2003]
UK king of the Wi-Fi castle
News BT's wireless ISP, Openzone, has forged deals that give its customers access to hot spots across Europe and the US, as well as to a UK network called The Cloud. Additionally, the sky-high costs of providing Internet backhaul from hot spots will... [14 Aug 2003]
Wi-Fi: 'not all that'
Comment Last week, Openzone said that it has now reached "over 90,000 minutes of access per week" - which works out at around two hours per day per hot spot for a network that includes valuable sites such as Earls Court and Olympia, part of Gatwick... [28 May 2003]
Wi-Fi: The UK service provider landscape
Comment Take market leader BT Openzone. Openzone has the largest network by a fair distance but, you have to ask yourself, how many of its sites you will realistically visit. But unlimited access to the Openzone network costs £85 per month. [19 May 2003]
Wi-Fi comes to Britain's pubs. Cheers...
News BT Openzone will be the first such provider, starting in July. While the Starbucks/T-Mobile tariffs aren't wildly different to those of BT Openzone and other UK providers such as Megabeam, a T-Mobile spokesman defended Starbucks charging £47 for a... [06 Mar 2003]
Why not all public WLANs will be free
Comment A BT OpenZone or Megabeam, with their relatively high prices - certainly relatively high compared to zero - still stands a chance. Just over a month ago silicon.com called 2003 the year of the wireless LAN, barely distinguishing between corporate... [27 Feb 2003]
BT touts Wi-Fi over 3G
News The tie-up with BAA will see BT Openzone hot spots at Heathrow Terminal One - until now LHR has been a curious hot spot absentee - Gatwick, Stansted and Aberdeen airports. Hughes also welcomed the government's decision to deregulate the 5GHz... [30 Jan 2003]
