Customers of UPC and Telenet may next year free use of millions of wifispots in various European countries and in the USA. Liberty Global has a contract with Comcast closed to the public and home hotspots to open up to each other’s customers.
Liberty Global is internal testing for the opening of wifispots outside the Netherlands and Belgium, and next year should be the possibility to customers of the internetgigant. In practice, this will mean that subscribers of UPC and Telenet soon in various European countries and in a large number of American cities and areas, free of charge through public wifispots of users and public hotspots surf the internet.
When the opportunity is exactly offered, Bert Holtkamp, Liberty Global has not yet told Tweakers: “It will be in any case in 2015. In the US you can surf the internet via wi-fi hotspots in the coverage of Comcast, such as in San Francisco, Washington, Chicago and Boston.” According to Holtkamp are going to Liberty also connect with wifispots in other European countries. The company is with UPC, among others active in the Netherlands, Ireland, Austria and Poland, with Telenet in Belgium, with UnityMedia in Germany and Virgin in the United Kingdom. Liberty is also engaged in the acquisition of Ziggo in the Netherlands, if the acquisition is completed could also be that customers with the possibility of an international wifispot-use.
“You’ll soon be able, for example, as a subscriber with the public hotspots in the London underground connect,” says Holtkamp, “The intention is to make it as easy as possible, with automatic log-on, just as in the Netherlands.” In the US, Comcast three million Xfinity wi-fi hotspots that will be opened for UPC and Telenetklanten. Through a variety of providers Liberty Global has more than 2.5 million wifispots in Europe.
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