Nextel launches a very boring service, surprising given Sprint PCS's latest footprint: Nextel will be part of Sprint PCS sometime soon, so it's a very strange thing to hear today that they have announced a very tedious and overpriced hotspot offering: $40 per month buys you unlimited usage of Boingo and Wayport locations, 7,000 in total. Since Boingo already resells Wayport locations, one would assume this deal separately brings other Wayport locations to the table, but it doesn't seem to be the case.
This is completely uninteresting and overpriced.
Update: There is something interesting about this after all. Nextel, unlike Sprint and Cingular, contracted with Wayport to resell access to guest room service, hence Nextel's higher monthly rate. Wayport typically resells just access to public and common areas of hotels alongside their broader Wi-Fi offerings in airports and other locations. It's vitally important, then, when you sign up for aggregated reseller access to make sure that hotel guest rooms are included in the monthly fee.