Excilan's pay-by-cell-phone technology has been acquired by The Cloud's Roampoint: Excilan went into bankruptcy in its headquarters of Luxembourg last Friday, but a last-minute deal with Roampoint, the aggregation and roaming service that's part of UK's large The Cloud network, saves its unique method of payment. Excilan's system allows a cell-phone carrying user to enter their telephone number on a hotspot gateway page, receive an automated call, and authorize payment which is charged to their bill. The significant difficulty faced by Excilan was getting both hotspot operators and cell operators in the same countries to participate. Excilan has 40 hotspot operators and 17 cell operator contracts, but few overlap geographically.