Global Wi-Fi Access Deal Makes World Wireless

A worldwide roaming agreement among four of the world’s biggest wireless operators has given the Wi-Fi hotspot market a shot in the arm and users access to more than 20,000 hotspots. UK-based BT Group; StarHub of Singapore; T-Mobile International, which operates in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, and the US; Australia’s Telstra; and Telecom Italia, under the auspices of the Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), all agreed to share hotspots — meaning that any of their customers should have instant access to the thousands of hotspots in 11 countries across the globe