Air2Lan, Boingo team for service

Susan Rush
From the October 9th edition of CED Broadband Direct

With the help of Boingo Wireless, Air2Lan has launched its Air2Lan Wi-Fi service.

The service, powered by Boingo Wireless, is being offered to Air2Lan's current corporate clients and will be marketed to corporate and recreational users nationwide.

Air2Lan Wi-Fi is a co-branded version of Boingo's wireless Internet service and includes a built-in VPN, and software that provides signal settings where users can store network profiles to ease moving between Wi-Fi locations.

The partnership with Boingo enables Air2Lan to expand beyond its local clientele by making use of Boingo's network of Wi-Fi hot spots in hotels, airports, cafes and other public locations in the United States.

Users have three pricing plans from which to chose. For $7.95, users receive unlimited sessions and traffic at a hot spot location for 24 hours. Each 24-hour period is dubbed a "connect day." For $24.95 users receive 10 connect days per month. Unlimited access costs $74.95 per month.

"Being able to take broadband connectivity on the road is tremendously appealing to people who are wirelessly enabled at home or at the office," said Dave Hagan, Boingo Wireless president.