Trustive Extends Hotspot Network by Signing Strategic Roaming Agreement with Wayport
04 July 2007
Europe’s leading wireless hotspot access provider, today announced that it has signed an in-bound roaming agreement with Wayport, an international leader in the design and integration of applications and software over wired and wireless carrier-grade networks.
The agreement allows Trustive’s retail customers to access more than 1,000 Wayport hotspots across the US and 250 hotspots in Europe. These locations include major airports and hotels, including brands such as Marriott, Sheraton and Radisson SAS. The agreement also means Trustive can now offer wholesale customers access to an extended hotspot network.
Gavin Dresselhuis, co-founder and managing director of Trustive, said: “We are very pleased to be working with Wayport. According to recent research carried out by Trustive1, the top three locations where people use wireless Internet access are hotels, cafes and airports. We continue to meet end-user demand for seamless connection at these prime locations all over the world."
1 Trustive WLAN Research 2007
"This agreement reconfirms the commitment we have made to our neutral-host strategy, which opens up our network to key industry players around the world to continually foster the adoption of Wi-Fi and in turn drive the maximum number of customers to our partner locations," said Dave Vucina, CEO for Wayport.
Trustive is Europe’s leading wireless hotspot access provider and one of the fastest growing in the world. Through roaming agreements, Trustive is meeting the end-user demand for access to a global network of hotspots by offering a unified service through an easy-to-use user interface, providing the end-user with one single login and invoice. Trustive is targeting both the retail and wholesale markets. Among Trustive wholesale customers are SFR, Vodafone Italia and Vodafone Netherlands.
Building on its established network infrastructure encompassing more than 14,000 locations in 34 countries, Wayport designs, develops and enables software and applications over carrier grade networks for innovative organizations in a number of vertical markets encompassing retail, healthcare, hospitality, managed services and others. Wayport helps organizations attract and retain loyal customers, create new business capabilities and improve operational efficiencies at premier venues including major hotels, airports, McDonald’s and Hertz locations, and other retail brands worldwide.
