Boingo has a great wireless network for Wi-Fi access around the world.  If you’re on the road they seem to be a pretty good alternative to paying on a site-by-site basis, and it is even a decent price often just for a daily.  Well, it seems that they are pretty keen on getting more subscribers on their monthly plan rather than holding out for the daily subscribers, so they’ve cut their subscription pricing drastically, from $21.95/month to $9.95 for folks joining up now.

The key is to use promo code UNL01090USD0 when you are signing up.

Originally noted here.  Thanks!

UPDATE: Three caveats about this offer.  First is that it expires July 31st. Second is that the “unlimited monthly usage” is actually 3,000 minutes/month.  So don’t leave it logged on overnight at the hotel and you should be fine.  Third is that it is only good in North America; global roaming will cost you per minute.

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Remember last week? AT&T tried to show how generous they are by handing out free Wi-Fi access to any iPhone user through their hotspot network.

Sadly the freebie has already been turned off. Things may change once they make an official announcement, but in the meantime the only way to get free iPhone hotspot access is at select local airports through Boingo.

Or course, the whole thing could also have been turned off because it only took people a day to discover how they could get free access using their PC or Mac and have their browser pretend to be an iPhone…

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Runway Girl is repoorting that Boingo is looking to partner with AirCell, extending their WiFi peering arrangement with one of the major players in the airborne WiFi space.  AirCell is currently providing service to American Airlines and Virgin America.  Back in the Connexion days, Boingo users were able to roam onto that network, and clearly it is something that their customers would demand so it is nice to see them moving in this direction.  Still no word on how much they’ll charge for the roaming, but we can hope that it will be reasonable.

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Here is a generous offer that should help many of you when you are at the airport; Boingo is offering 15 minutes of free Wi-Fi access in exchange for a 15 second ad on your iPhone/iPod Touch.

This is great if you need a quick way to pick up your email or need a speedy connection to download something from the iTunes music store. It’ll also save you a fortune on roaming costs when you land in the UK (or US, depending where you are heading).

The participating airports are:

United Kingdom: EDI, GLA, LHR, LGW, SOU, STN

North America: AZO, BNA, BWI, DTW, EWR, HOU, IAH, JFK, LGA, MDW, MEM, MKE,
MSP, OAK, OKC, ORD, SDF, SJU, SLC, STL, YOW, YYZ.

Of course, if you need more than 15 minutes, it may pay to check out the regular Boingo plans which start at just $7.95. With international GSM data costing as much as $2 per megabyte you’ll earn that $7.95 back in under a day.

Source: Boingo

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