Subject: [NEXTEL-1] BT Steps Up Wi-Fi Network Deployment

From: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 14:36:37 -0400

BT Steps Up Wi-Fi Network Deployment

BT Group has launched a self-install product that will make it easier for
restaurants, shops and small hotels to become Wi-Fi hot spots. The company
developed the product with Japanese retail equipment maker Toshiba. In
addition to its Openzone Wi-Fi network, BT has also signed a deal with The
Cloud, a Wi-Fi network developed with Leisure Link Group, Britain's largest
operator of slot machines and jukeboxes in pubs. The company hopes to have
1,300 Wi-Fi hotspots at the end of 2003.

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BT looks to increase wi-fi
hotspots

19 May 2003
- by Veronique De Freitas

BT is looking to increase
the number of locations
that laptop and PDA users
can get high-speed
wireless internet access to
4,000 public venues by summer 2004.

BT Openzone has teamed up with Toshiba to create 'Hotspot in a
box', a new product that will let local establishments including
bookshops, golf clubs, shops, pubs and small hotels offer wireless
access to the internet to their customers.

According to BT, these new hotspots will be in addition to the BT
Openzone access points that will be available in 1,300 pubs and
clubs by the end of the year.

BT has also launched two new subscription offers to tempt people
to try out BT Openzone, which lets you access data at speeds of
up to 500kbps. Openzone 120 costs £10 a month for two hours'
access a month.

And anyone who buys BT's Voyager ADSL wireless modem for the
home from Carphone Warehouse will get six months free
Openzone 120 access, worth £60.

Related items:
www.bt.com/openzone

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BT steps up Wi-Fi efforts
May 19 13:08:00, 2003

LONDON—British Telecommunications plc continued its push into the Wi-Fi arena with several
new initiatives it said
would help accelerate the spread of Wi-Fi communications in the United Kingdom.

The company announced an “off-the-shelf” product in conjunction with Toshiba Corp. that it
said would allow local hot
spots to spring up in pubs, shops and hotels across the United Kingdom. The company also
announced partnership
deals with Cisco Systems Inc., Nortel Networks Ltd. and retailer Carphone Warehouse to
grow its BT Openzone network.

The U.K. operator said its Wi-Fi use has increased 20 percent per week during the past two
months, which translates
into more than 90,000 minutes of use per week. The company now said it aims to deliver
4,000 hot spots by mid-2004,
pushing forward that goal by a year. The company said it is on target to deliver 400 hot
spots by this summer.

The Toshiba agreement will see Toshiba manufacturing the technology and BT offering the
wireless Internet service.
Roaming agreements between the two companies will link BT’s Openzone network with
Toshiba’s global hot spots.

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