Sprint and Boingo Bring Seamless Wi-Fi to Millions of Sprint Travelers

Boingo Wireless, the leading DAS and Wi-Fi provider, and Sprint today announced a multi-year Wi-Fi agreement, enabling access to seamless and secure Boingo Wi-Fi networks in 35 major U.S. airports. Leveraging Boingo's industry-leading network technology, connecting to Wi-Fi will become as easy and safe as cellular. Sprint devices within proximity of a Boingo hotspot can automatically connect to the Wi-Fi network seamlessly, providing service at the fastest speeds available, be that cellular from Sprint or Wi-Fi from Boingo. The auto-authenticating Wi-Fi connections are available at no additional charge to all Sprint customers with capable devices, and usage while connected to Wi-Fi does not count towards a customer's monthly service plan. Sprint and Boingo conducted successful market trials with millions of Sprint handsets, which demonstrated the consumer benefits of effortless authentication onto Boingo's network. "With Wi-Fi being the world's largest wireless ecosystem, we view it as a highly complementary layer to our network," said Stephen Bye, Sprint CTO. "By enabling customers to move seamlessly between secure Wi-Fi and cellular, our customers will have a better mobile experience in more locations, all while lowering their cost of data usage." The Sprint network improves daily and the company continues to invest in solutions that deliver the consistent reliability, capacity, and speed that customers demand. As service expands to additional Sprint handsets, customers with Passpoint-enabled devices can be connected to Boingo's "Passpoint Secure" networks at airports nationwide. By utilizing Boingo's "Passpoint Secure" networks, customers can enjoy a simpler mobile experience with seamless Wi-Fi authentication and WPA2 enterprise-grade encryption technology. "Boingo's relationship with Sprint removes the traditional barriers between Wi-Fi and cellular service," said David Hagan, Chief Executive Officer for Boingo Wireless. "Sprint is a market leader with the integration of Wi-Fi and cellular, which is a very customer centric solution to provide an always-best-connected experience through either network."