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July 3, 2007

Trustive Enters Flat-Rate Hotspot Access Fray

By Glenn Fleishman

Trustive adds unlimited Wi-Fi access for €33/month for 30,000 hotspots: The firm is also offering a five-account unlimited rate for €150 for businesses. The firm aggregates hotspots across Europe, with 23,000 available now and 7,000 being added in the next two months. Boingo’s new worldwide plan costs US$39 or €29, but includes access across 60,000 hotspots today (and 100,000 in the near future), including Asia, America, and the rest of the world.

Given that both networks include major European providers such as The Cloud, Surf and Sip, and BT OpenZone, it’s hard to see what differentiates Trustive’s more expensive offering from Boingo’s more extensive one.

Boingo requires a software client (Windows only at the moment) for access to every location, although the majority of partners also allow a manual login at a partners window. Trustive requires a client and doesn’t note whether alternatives for login are available, although it’s likely that similar partner login gateway pages are available. Update: A Trustive spokesperson said that a gateway login is available without a software client for all locations in their network. I’m not sure why both firms don’t mention this clearly on their Web sites, as that would attract non-Windows users, including iPhone customers.

Posted by Glennf at July 3, 2007 9:48 AM

Categories: Aggregators, Hot Spot

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