Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) News

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February 12, 2009

Boingo Wireless launches Wi-Fi service at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, is exclusive provider for terminal

AUSTIN, TEXAS – Boingo Wireless is now the exclusive Wi-Fi service for technologically savvy travelers throughout the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport Barbara Jordan Terminal. With Boingo service, Austin travelers will be able to get online with a fast, reliable and easy-to-use connection, and be able to browse, upload and download files for work, check email, and anything else that needs a high-speed connection.

Travelers may log-in to the Wi-Fi network by using an existing Boingo account, or an account with one of Boingo’s many roaming partners. Travelers without a Boingo account can get online with either a Boingo Unlimited account for $9.95 a month, or a 24-hour pass for $7.95. Future plans for Austin’s airport include kiosks providing free Boingo access.

Travelers with smartphones – such as the iPhone, Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones or Windows Mobile 6.0 devices – are able to get online with Wi-Fi if they have a Boingo Mobile account. Boingo Mobile provides worldwide access to Boingo hotspots for $7.95/month.

“Austin is one of the great tech cities - with companies such as Dell, and technology events like South by Southwest – and we’re proud to have been chosen to provide the Wi-Fi service for the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport,” said David Hagan, CEO and president, Boingo Wireless. “We look forward to providing the travelers in Austin with the same fast and reliable service that we provide other airports. With Boingo, Austin knows that they are getting a top Wi-Fi provider.”

For more information on Boingo visit http://www.boingo.com. Boingo Wireless, Inc., the global market leader in Wi-Fi, makes it simple and easy for people to enjoy Wi-Fi access on their laptop or mobile device at more than 100,000 hotspots worldwide. With a single account, Boingo users can logon to the Boingo Network locations that include the top airports around the world, major hotel chains, cafés and coffee shops, restaurants, and metropolitan hot zones. Boingo, and its Concourse Communications Group subsidiary, operate wired and wireless networks at 55 airports worldwide, including 29 of the top 100 North American airports, as well as the WSDOT Ferries Division Wi-Fi network.

Over 9 million passengers came through Austin-Bergstrom International in 2008. Austin-Bergstrom International Airport has nonstop service to 41 destinations in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. A complete listing of all nonstop flight destinations from Austin and the airlines that serve them is available on www.abia.org, click on ‘airlines & flights.’

Source: City of Austin