Talk:Boingo Wireless

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I do not think this should be deleted User:Elakhna 22:42, 20 February 2008 (UTC)

I agree, it needs more information. 132.203.167.16 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 15:02, 15 July 2009 (UTC).

Delete this article or make it useful

I came here trying to understand exactly the nature of what Boingo offers. Instead I get miscellaneous investor information that is only marginally important to the article.

How does Boingo offer WiFi hotspots. Does it own its own hardware? Does it contract with people that have hotspots to license some of their bandwidth. If that is the approach what is the nature of the compensation that these people provide?

How good is the coverage? Is a major metropolitan area like New York likely to have nearly 100% coverage or is it something much less?

Sometimes an article can be so crappy that Wikipedia would just be better off without the article even the subject is worthy of an article. This article is close to the level of crappiness that consideration should be given to deleting it unless it is improved. --Davefoc (talk) 19:20, 17 December 2012 (UTC)

Excellent questions! The article has been improved since last December, but some of the questions seem unanswered. We need more information, including the technical details and more about the pricing plans. Some say good service, some say ripoff, leaving me confused and wary.--DThomsen8 (talk) 12:24, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

Adding content to Boingo Wireless company page

My name is Christian Gunning, vp of communications for Boingo. I'd like to assist the community in better understanding our business, so the Wikipedia page more accurately reflects the expansive nature of our company. I have declared my COI on this front on my user page, so it is explicitly clear. I'm happy to propose content based on third party sources to validate the information in order to flesh out the content on the company page, leaving the final editing and publishing decisions to the Wikipedia community. I have joined the Cooperation WikiProject and have reviewed the Paid Editor Help suggestions to ensure I'm following recommended guidelines for participating as an editor with a COI. X-Gunman (talk) 20:28, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

• [5] X-Gunman user page
• [6] Cooperation WikiProject
• [7] Paid Editor Help guidelines

Proposal: adding "Acquisitions" to company page

Since the diversity of our business has evolved in many ways from acquisitions undertaken over the years, I'd like to propose a section around the acquisitions the company has made. These are pretty straightforward corporate events, with validating news articles describing the events. Publications such as Information Week, Wireless Week, RCR Wireless and MediaPost have covered the transactions. Below are the significant acquisition events that would most accurately reflect the company's efforts on this front. --X-Gunman (talk) 20:52, 21 August 2013 (UTC)

Acquisitions

On May 22, 2006, Boingo acquired Concourse Communications Group , which operated Wi-Fi and cellular DAS networks in key airports. The acquisition led to Boingo moving from a pure play roaming aggregator to a network operator ; it was finalized in March 2007 with Wi-Fi networks in three New York Airports (JFK, LGA, EWR), two Chicago airports (ORD, MDW), Toronto, Detroit, Minneapolis and Nashville among other top 100 cities.

On October 31, 2007, Boingo acquired seven more airport Wi-Fi networks from Sprint Nextel’s Wi-Fi operations. Airports included two in Houston (IAH, HOU), Milwaukee General Mitchell (MKE), Louisiville-Standifer Field (SDF) among others.

On November 10, 2008, Boingo acquired Opti-Fi Networks’ Wi-Fi holdings, adding another 25 airport Wi-Fi networks to its portfolio of managed locations and bringing its total of airport Wi-Fi networks to 55.

The company acquired Cloud Nine Media on August 8, 2012 to bolster its ad services with Cloud Nine’s media platform and ad sales team, as sponsored free Wi-Fi becomes more prevalent in consumer venues.

On February 21, 2013, the company acquired Endeka Group, a provider of Wi-Fi and IPTV services to military bases and federal law enforcement training facilities.

• [8] Boingo Wireless Acquires Airport Cellular, Wi-Fi Operator Concourse Communications
• [9] Boingo Wireless Acquires Airport Cellular, Wi-Fi Operator Concourse Communications
• [10] Boingo Completes Concourse Buy
• [11] Boingo buys Sprint Nextel’s airport Wi-Fi
• [12] Boingo Acquires Opti-Fi To Boost Airport Wi-Fi
• [13] Boingo Buys Wi-Fi Startup Cloud Nine Media
• [14] HetNet News: Boingo to purchase Endeka

New section on Spying is false allegation

The original CBC story simply mentions that Boingo is the largest independent provider of Wi-Fi services, which is followed by a portion of the company's statement that Boingo "has not provided any information about our users to Canadian government, law enforcement or intelligence agencies." There is no implication of Boingo providing any data to the Canadian intelligence services (CSEC).

Further, if you read the redacted report from the CSEC , slide 7 seems to imply that on Boingo-served networks, the data was invisible in aperture intelligence. So for data acquired elsewhere, the extended tracking did not appear to work across Boingo networks in Canada.

• :Very many airports and hotels served by large Boingo private network
  • :not seen in aperture; traffic seems to return via local Akamai node

Additionally, the company posted a blog entry in response to the story with a specific response to the claims about providing data to CSEC.

>>I heard that Boingo cooperated with Canadian intelligence agencies to track customers who used Wi-Fi at airports. Is this true?

>>>No. According to our records, Boingo Wireless has not received nor responded to any requests for information from Canadian authorities in this instance, and subsequently to the best of our knowledge, has not provided any information about any of our users to the Canadian government, law enforcement or intelligence agencies.

[15] CSEC used airport Wi-Fi to track Canadian travellers: Edward Snowden documents

[16] IP Profiling Analytics & Mission Impacts

[17] Your Privacy is Our Priority

X-Gunman (talk) 15:00, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

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Edit Request

I have a conflict of interest and understand that the preferred way to update the article is to post a connected edit request. I'd be very grateful if someone can review and make sure I'm doing this right and that this request correctly follows site guidelines. These changes are to update the article to reflect several company changes since it was last updated.

1) Please remove the financials section in the infobox. The company is private and so the financials no longer apply.
 Done STEMinfo (talk) 18:30, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
2) The company has moved its headquarters to Texas. Please change the third sentence in the lead, which has a better source than what's there now.

In December 2022, the company announced it was moving its headquarters to Frisco, Texas, and would maintain regional offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Las Vegas.
 Done after converting refs to regular URLS. Content matches source. STEMinfo (talk) 18:51, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
3) Please add these three recent items to the history section.

In 2021, Boingo launched a private network for the staff at Petco Park in San Diego, home of the Padres baseball team. In October 2022, the company announced it was opening a Boingo Innovation Center in Las Vegas, to demonstrate different wireless technologies. In December 2022, the company announced it was moving its headquarters to Frisco, Texas, and would maintain regional offices in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago and Las Vegas.
 Done after converting refs to regular URLS. Content matches sources. STEMinfo (talk) 18:51, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

4) We have two new product lines that I'd like to add to the top of the products and services section:

• 5G – Boingo works with Tier One carriers to deploy 5G networks at major airports, stadiums, military bases, hospitals and commercial properties.
• Private Networks – Boingo deploys private LTE networks that operate independently of public networks.
  

 Done after updating urls using reFill. @WikiDrafts: you can use reFill to fill in your bare refs before posting your request. I describe the process in an essay that I'm working on User:STEMinfo/COI_edit_requests_for_novices. STEMinfo (talk) 19:00, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
WikiDrafts (talk) 15:15, 29 September 2023 (UTC) WikiDrafts (talk) 15:15, 29 September 2023 (UTC)

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