NTT Com Seals Wireless Broadband Roaming Deal with ePLDT, Accelerates

JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network, Aug 29, 2005 by Dale Hug

Tokyo, Aug 29, 2005 - (JCN) - NTT Communicationsa member of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), announced a deal on August 23 to expandof its wireless broadband roaming coverage to the Philippines with leading operator ePLDT.

NTT Com also has roaming arrangements with other WBA members, including KT (Korea), T-Mobile USA (USA), British Telecom (United Kingdom), Telecom Italia (Italy), Telstra (Australia), StarHub (Singapore) and Maxis (Malaysia).

NTT Com customers will now be able to use their Wi-Fi subscriptions for a consistent, global wireless broadband experience to access information, communications and entertainment at more than 35,000 Wi-Fi hotspot locations across Asia Pacific, North America and Europe, including 1,600 within Japan.

It is expected that other members of the WBA will join the roaming arrangements in the near future, further broadening the WBA footprint in which NTT Com Hotspot customers can roam with a single Wi-Fi subscription.