[CWN-Summit] Fwd: [onShore-Tech] SBC offers $1.99 Wi-Fi Web access

[Stelios Valavanis]

i don't know where they have hotspots in chicago.

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Subject: [onShore-Tech] SBC offers $1.99 Wi-Fi Web access
Date: Monday 18 October 2004 09:00 am
From: Steve Kent <stevek at onshore.com>
To: tech at onshore.com

http://money.cnn.com/2004/10/18/technology/sbc_wifi.reut/index.htm

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - SBC Communications Inc. said Monday it will offer
access to its network of 3,900 public Wi-Fi Internet access points to its
high-speed Internet subscribers for $1.99 per month.

SBC said the discount from the regular monthly charge of $19.95 for its
Wi-Fi network was meant to boost usage of Wi-Fi services.

The second-largest U.S. telecommunications company has been one of the
most aggressive backers of public Wi-Fi service, with deals to put Wi-Fi
in McDonald's restaurants and UPS stores, as part of a goal to launch
20,000 Wi-Fi hot spots by 2006.

The $1.99 charge requires a one-year contract with SBC. The company also
said new users of its DSL service would get free access to the Wi-Fi
network through April 2005.

SBC (Research) has 4.3 million subscribers for its digital subscriber line
(DSL) high-speed Internet service. It has not said how many subscribers it
has for its public Wi-Fi service.

Last week, SBC said it would use its Wi-Fi access points as an extension
of the Cingular Wireless network, offering phones that can switch calls
between networks by 2006.

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Steven Kent
Senior Network Engineer
onShore, Inc.
http://www.onshore.com

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