Wayport is an infrastructure builder, not a reseller, and they've built 10,000 Wi-Fi hotspots: Six thousand of these locations are under Wayport's direct management at McDonald's, IHOP, Hertz, and elsewhere; the remaining are built for companies like SBC. They installed 7,000 hotspots in the last year.
I visited Wayport's Austin, Texas, headquarters in March, and saw a company that was poised for some serious growth from manufacturing to customer support to back-office operations. They had 2.2 million connections in the previous quarter alone on the 6,000 network locations it operates directly.
Wayport delivers! I tried them all: McDonald's, B&N, UPS stores and some hotels.
McDonald's finally got around to placing "Wireless Internet Access Location" signs in their store windows. They show Wayport, Centrino and "at-m" logos and pictures of all the credit cards they accept. Check out a sample from a store in Corona, NY (made famous by Paul Simon - "Rosie, the Queen of Corona")
K.E.
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