LOS ANGELES – Feb. 12, 2008 — Boingo Wireless, which owns and operates Wi-Fi hotspots at some of the largest and busiest airports, today announced it has joined the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), an industry alliance of wireless broadband industry players that facilitates global Wi-Fi roaming amongst its members.  Boingo is the first pure-play hotspot operator to join WBA.

“Boingo is one of the pioneers in hotspot business and the WBA board of directors is delighted to have them on-board as our latest General Member” said Julie Ragbourne, Chairperson of the WBA.  “This decision allows our members to benefit from the extremely valuable hotspot network owned by Boingo and aligns well with our strategy to continually expand global roaming footprint by adding new members who can help increase quality coverage and choices for end-customers”

Boingo operates Wi-Fi networks in 28 airports in North America and the United Kingdom, including Kennedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports in the New York metropolitan area, as well as Chicago’s O’Hare and London’s Heathrow airports.  Boingo and other WBA members from across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific would be able to negotiate access to each others hotspots under WBA guidelines while providing Boingo an ability to use the award winning WBA WRIX (Wireless Roaming Intermediary Exchange) for accelerated roaming deployment with other WBA members. This further expands the collective footprint available to end-customers through WBA members, especially at the airport hotspots which are increasingly important as traveler demand surges for Wi-Fi broadband access.

“As the original Wi-Fi roaming enabler, Boingo fully endorses the WBA’s commitment to standardizing high-quality roaming among top-tier network operators” said Luis Serrano, Boingo’s vice president of network strategy.  “We look forward to furthering global roaming by working with other members of the WBA.”

Boingo brings deep experience in hotspot roaming integration and aggregation, including existing roaming agreements with 14 of the WBA’s 20 member companies, and expertise enabling Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices, such as dual-mode handsets, for Wi-Fi connectivity and roaming authentication.

About Boingo Wireless
Boingo Wireless, Inc. is the global market leader in Wi-Fi. Boingo makes it easy for consumers to enjoy Wi-Fi access on their laptop or mobile device at more than 100,000 hotspots worldwide — including airports, hotels, cafes and metropolitan hot zones — with a single account. Through its Concourse Communications Group, LLC subsidiary, Boingo operates wired and wireless networks at 20 of the top 100 North American airports. More information about Boingo and Concourse is available at http://www.boingo.com and http://www.concoursecommunications.com.

About the Wireless Broadband Alliance
Formed in March 2003, the Wireless Broadband Alliance was created to drive the adoption of wireless broadband technologies and services around the world by developing a common commercial, technical and marketing framework for wireless network interoperability. Its goal is to develop a global alliance of wireless providers that can truly deliver services that users can trust. It aims to provide a consistent customer experience and reliability for wireless broadband users worldwide. To facilitate commercial roaming implementations between its member operators, the alliance has developed WRIX (Wireless Roaming Intermediary Exchange), a modularised standard service specification that won the Wireless Broadband Innovation 2007 award in the Best Wi-Fi Product / Service segment.

The Wireless Broadband Alliance is formed by pioneers in the wireless broadband field, encompassing major players in the telecommunications field. Collectively, the Wireless Broadband Alliance operates over 85,000 wireless hotspots across 26 service providers around the world.

For more information, please visit wballiance.com