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Boingo are on a huge roll with the addition nearly 1000 hotspots in Ireland today.
Eircom the Irish national provider has now partnered up with the USA based group and all Boingo clients will now be able connect to Eircom’s nationwide hotspots which include Dublin, Donegal, Farranfore, Knock and Waterford airports.
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Stay Connected Across ireland with Boingo
Thanks To the Luck of the Irish, Boingo Adds 950 Hot Spots

LOS ANGELES– November 11, 2008 – Boingo Wireless , the global market leader in Wi-Fi, announces the addition of 950 eircom hotspots to the Boingo® Roaming Network. With the addition of these locations, Boingo members can now enjoy broadband connections in business and leisure hotspots – airports, train stations, hotels and pubs – while traveling throughout Ireland.

Boingo’s aggregated network in Ireland now includes most airports - including those located at Dublin, Donegal, Farranfore, Knock and Waterford - as well as the top train stations, more than 200 hotels, and 350 popular restaurants and cafés such as Insomnia and McDonald’s.

“With the addition of eircom’s hotspots to Boingo’s network, Boingo users will be able to access the largest network in Ireland, a country that has become a key European business hub,” said Luis Serrano, vice president of network strategy for Boingo Wireless. “The quality of the network is critical for our customers and eircom provides the kind of tier-one service excellence that we strive to offer throughout our entire footprint.”

Boingo gives business and pleasure travelers the best choice of Wi-Fi hotspots by combining more than 100,000 locations from 150 leading Wi-Fi operators into a single worldwide network spanning 90 countries.

“As the largest telecommunications operator in Ireland, eircom is committed to bringing the highest quality wireless Internet to its customers and partners. With Boingo, people coming to Ireland will be able to conveniently logon and get high-speed, reliable Internet access no matter where they are, be it airports, train stations, pubs or even Croke Park, the largest stadium in Ireland.” said Alan Brown, Director of Broadband and Internet, eircom.

Boingo members can connect to any of the 100,000 Boingo hotspots using GoBoingo , Boingo’s free Wi-Fi client software, which recognizes more than 660 network names as Boingo-accessible hotspots, and stores a user’s name and password to simplify identifying and connecting to commercial Wi-Fi networks.

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 23 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 eircom
eircom is the leading provider of fixed-line telecommunications services in Ireland and has a 69% revenue market share of the Irish fixed-line market. As the incumbent fixed-line telecommunications provider, eircom has the most extensive fixed-line telecommunications network in Ireland in terms of both capacity and geographic reach. The company has over 1.2 million customers and provides a comprehensive range of advanced voice, data and internet services to the residential, business and enterprise markets.

eircom is the leading broadband service provider in Ireland with over 600,000 broadband customers on its network.
The company which was formerly listed on the Dublin and London stock exchanges, was purchased by Australian firm Babcock & Brown Capital Ltd (ASX:BCM) together with the eircom Employee Share Ownership Trust (ESOT) in August 2006.

With almost 7,000 employees, eircom Group is one of Ireland’s largest employers
Our mobile division, Meteor, was acquired on November 23, 2005 and is Ireland’s third largest mobile phone operator. Meteor has over 1 million mobile subscribers.