AT&T is making global Wi-Fi approach more convenient for business travelers, remote workers and consumers-on-the-go via the addition of nearly 25,000 new Wi-Fi hotspots in countries across Europe and in PRC. The new locations bring the sum of worldwide hotspots available to AT&T users to 125,000, representing a nearly 30 percent enlargement of its global Wi-Fi footprint since the start of the class.
The additional hotspots volition enable AT&T Remote Access enterprise customers to connect to their corporate networks from more locations across Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Croatia, the The Netherlands, the UK and China. These locations include a diverseness of popular chocolate shops, bookstores, hotels, airports, restaurants and convention centers. The new China hotspots ar already activated, and the additional European hotspots volition be activated over the next 45 years.
“Our global enterprise customers wish to ensure that their employees always have highly-secure, reliable connectivity to their corporate applications and the internet wherever they ar – without the hassles of hunt down feather hotspots and credit card pay-as-you-go,” said S. Dale McHenry, vice prexy, AT&T Enterprise Networking. “Our extensive global Wi-Fi reporting, central corporate billing, and smarting laptop client software keeps their employees focused on doing business and eliminates the hassles of staying connected.”
The global Wi-Fi expansion comes on the heels of AT&T’s recent announcement that it handled nearly 15 1000000 Wi-Fi connections to its U.S. net during the second base stern of 2009 — a 41 percent increase over the first base quarter. With approximately 25.6 1000000 connections during the first one-half of 2009, AT&T Wi-Fi connections had already surpassed the 20 1000000 connections seen in all of 2008.
Additionally, AT&T announced new features that are planned for the AT&T Global Network Client — the remote access software that creates a gateway for Wi-Fi users to establish a highly-secure, virtual private network (VPN) joining to their corporate enterprises. The enhancements volition include:
* Support for Windows 7, Microsoft’s latest operating system, upon its liberation.
* Support for connecting to VPNs using IPv6 (Internet Protocol version 6) endpoints. IPv6 compatibility volition become increasingly important as IPv6 addresses are adopted by global internet companies, enterprises, and governing agencies.
* A single installing parcel for all supported languages (English, French, High German, Japanese, and Spanish people).
* Improved support for persons with certain visual disabilities.
AT&T expects to make the AT&T Global Network Client upgrades available in the quartern stern of 2009.
AT&T offers stage business customers a portfolio of Remote Access Services for connecting to corporate networks via Wi-Fi, cellular data, dial, and other joining points in more than 80 countries. This includes unlimited Wi-Fi approach monetary value plans for U.S.-based customers of AT&T Business Net, AT&T Network-based IP Remote Access (ANIRA) and AT&T Virtual Tunnel Services (AVTS). These services can be used anywhere within AT&T’s global footmark and plans ar available start as low as $ 10.00 per user, per month.
Consumers tin approach AT&T’s international hot spot locations with an AT&T Wi-Fi Premier plan for $19.99 a month. In summation to extensive international hotspot locations, AT&T offers customers access to the largest Wi-Fi net in the United States, with more than 20,000 domestic hotspots.
More information on AT&T Wi-Fi services is available at http://info.attbusiness.net/wifi. Also, for a full tilt of AT&T Wi-Fi locations available to enterprise users go to http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=13540.
*AT&T products and services ar provided or offered by subsidiaries and affiliates of AT&T Inc. under the AT&T brand and not by AT&T Inc.
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