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News Wi-Fi operator BT Openzone has gone trans-Atlantic by agreeing a roaming deal with US operator Airpath Wireless. The agreement follows an earlier tie-up between BT and TeliaSonera, which gives Openzone customers access to Wi-Fi networks in...
[23 Jul 2003]
News BT is to slash the prices of its Openzone service in the hope of encouraging more companies to embrace Wi-Fi. The telco is creating a new corporate service with an up-front fee of £5 a month for each user, with additional charges depending on how...
[23 Oct 2003]
News BT is turning itself into a Wi-Fi wholesaler by opening up its Openzone wireless network to other companies, a move that allows Orange and Vodafone to begin offering Wi-Fi access to their customers. The telco announced on Monday that it is now...
[29 Sep 2003]
News BT has taken the logical step of combining broadband, wireless home networking and public Wi-Fi access via its BT Openzone operations. The pricing breaks down as £27 per month for a broadband ADSL connection from BT, £129.99 or more to set up home...
[23 Oct 2003]
News Tens of thousands of BT's public phone boxes could become Wi-Fi hotspots over the next few years, giving the telco's Openzone service a much larger presence across the UK. The telco announced on Monday that it is aiming to install BT Openzone...
[15 Sep 2003]
Comment That's part of what HotSpot Hotel, a London-based hotspot directory service, and BT Openzone plan to offer to extend the basic web look-up service. Paying to be listed is the same model as most business directories and the relationship can go a...
[09 Jan 2004]
News The telco, which currently runs around 1,700 hotspots in the UK under its Openzone brand, is hoping to expand this to more than 4,000 hotspots by the summer. In order to achieve this target, the company has reduced the cost of Openzone-in-a-Box...
[05 Jan 2004]
News Costa will join a growing list of companies, including Hilton Hotels, Welcome Break and Roadchef offering BT's Wi-Fi service, called Openzone. Other high street names conducting Openzone trials include Lloyds TSB, Nationwide and John Lewis.
[31 Oct 2002]
News Because Fusion handsets also work in BT's Openzone hotspots, this has allowed BT to establish a mobile network based entirely on unlicensed spectrum. The spokesperson also pointed out that BT's wi-fi footprint already comprises 2,000 Openzone...
[06 Feb 2007]
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. A total of 27 Welcome Break service stations will also get Openzone hot...
[30 Jan 2003]
News BAA, one of the world's largest owners of airports around the world, has now announced a Wi-Fi hotspot at Heathrow Terminal 1 in London, an offering put together with the help of BT Openzone and Intel, which is currently pushing its Centrino...
[11 Apr 2003]
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 website when they activate their wireless devices...
[27 Mar 2008]
News Two in five mobile workers said being in contact with people back at the office is more important than it was two years ago, and 55 per cent of the 511 business people surveyed have seen the amount of time they spend outside the office increase...
[08 May 2007]
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]
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 Openzone replaces the Surf and Sip wi-fi service previously used by Caffè Nero.
[07 Apr 2008]
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 they are prepared to securely share a little of...
[04 Oct 2007]
Comment For example, BT Openzone's website only lists 76 sites that are open to the public - even though its target is to reach 400 by this summer - but a company spokesman insisted last week that the true figure is closer to 200.
[28 May 2003]
Comment Take market leader BT Openzone. But unlimited access to the Openzone network costs £85 per month. Openzone has the largest network by a fair distance but, you have to ask yourself, how many of its sites you will realistically visit.
[19 May 2003]
News Andrews' unit looks after BT Openzone Wi-Fi as well as cellular mobile and clearly he sees an opportunity in combining those two services, as well as fixed line broadband, which is outside of his remit but now a big money spinner for the telco.
[19 Nov 2004]
News Chris Clark, chief executive of BT Openzone, told ZDNet UK last month that Openzone's customer base had doubled in the last six months. However, he refused say how many customers Openzone actually has.
[08 Sep 2005]
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