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WirelessDevNet.com Press Release
STSN and BT Openzone to offer first complete managed Wi-Fi and fixed broadband access
2 December 2003, WLAN World Congress, Vienna, STSN, the world’s leading supplier of secure, managed broadband services to the hotel and conference industry, and BT Openzone, the UK’s largest Wi-Fi provider, today announced a joint initiative.
The STSN/BT Openzone proposition will offer the first total broadband service designed specifically for the specialist hospitality sector. It will allow hotels to deal with a single supplier for all aspects of broadband services, including marketing, billing and customer support services.
The service will include fixed and wireless broadband access for rooms, public areas and conference facilities. STSN already provides a secure, fully managed fixed-line and wireless broadband solution, including design, installation, customer support and billing integration, to over 700 hotels worldwide and consistently achieves the highest buy rates in the industry.
STSN and BT Openzone’s joint offering is designed to help hotels generate revenue via quality internet access services. The combined service will run across BT’s infrastructure, whilst STSN will take responsibility for driving sales, account management and ensuring successful delivery of the service.
Dave Garrison, CEO, STSN said:
“Our focus is business hotels and the business traveller guests who demand and need secure broadband access. Quite simply, when it comes to broadband services in hotels the combined offering of STSN and BT Openzone will have all of the bases covered.”
Dave Hughes, CEO, BT W ireless Broadband, said:
“Mobile broadband-powered working is essential for businesses to achieve the agility they need to compete and succeed in today’s market place. Anyone working away from the office can access the internet at broadband speed and download even the largest files quickly and cheaply via BT Openzone. Working with STSN gives us the ability to provide a complete service which covers rooms, conference facilities, and public areas now demanded by our hotel partners."
About STSN
Founded in 1998, STSN is the leading global provider of secure broadband to go for business at premium locations such as hotels and conference centres. STSN's premium iBAHN(tm) wired and wireless solutions provide increased productivity and connectivity options to business travellers and meeting planners worldwide with secure, reliable, easy-to-use, broadband connections in nearly 700 hotels in North America, Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific region including more than 200,000 guestrooms and hotel meeting rooms. STSN is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah with additional offices in London and Frankfurt. For more information, or to access a list of STSN-enabled hotels, visit www.stsn.com.
Using BT Openzone
BT Openzone provides access to the internet and the ability to get secure and fast connection to corporate networks while working "on the pause" away from the office. Users with a laptop and a Wireless LAN access card and software can access data at speeds of up to 500 kbps (almost 10 times faster than a standard 56K modem), enabling them to send and receive large quantities of information at broadband speed. Users need to be within range of an Openzone site (approx 100 metres) - zones will be badged with the BT Openzone logo. PC access cards range from £45 to £120, but are likely to become cheaper as wireless LAN is increasingly built into PCs as standard.
A full list of prices is available at www.bt.com/openzone.
About BT
BT Group plc is the listed holding company for an integrated group of businesses providing voice, data and video services in the UK and elsewhere in Europe. British Telecommunications plc, a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group, holds virtually all businesses and assets of the BT group.
BT is one of Europe’s leading providers of telecommunications services. Its principal activities include local, national and international telecommunications services, higher-value broadband and internet products and services, and IT solutions. In the UK, BT serves over 20 million business and residential customers with more than 29 million exchange lines, as well as providing network services to other licensed operators.
BT consists principally of three lines of business:
· BT Retail, serving businesses and residential customers and including BT Openworld, one of the UK’s leading ISPs.
· BT Wholesale, providing network services and solutions within the UK, including ADSL, conveyance, transit, bulk delivery of private circuits, frame relay and ISDN connections.
· BT Global Services, BT’s managed services and solutions provider, serving multi-site organisations worldwide. Its core target market is the top 10,000 global multi-site organisations with European operations.
There are a number of other businesses within the BT group, including BT Exact, an internationally renowned centre of excellence in IT and networking technologies. It is also BT’s technology and research and development business.
In the year ended 31 March 2003, BT’s turnover was £18,727m. with profit before taxation of £1,829m
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