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AT&T (News - Alert) has great news for its AT&T Remote Access customers—a.k.a. “road warriors.” The telecom giant has beefed up its WiFi footprint for these business customers globally. How big of an expansion are we talking about here? Pretty significant: mobile workers will now have an additional 13,000 new hotspots around the world where they can access their much beloved corporate network.

 

The WiFi (News - Alert) access points will now be available in popular spots such as airports, hotels, cafes and restaurants. The new expansion means AT&T’s global WiFi coverage area now includes more than 48,000 hotspots in 79 countries.

 

“Providing mobile workers with simple, flexible, wireless or wireline access to their corporate infrastructure is a core business initiative for AT&T,” said Mark Keiffer, chief marketing officer at AT&T business division, in a statement. “And AT&T's Wi-Fi service will enhance the global reach of that initiative.”

 

In addition to expanding its WiFi hotspot footprint in the U.S., AT&T now offers WiFi coverage for business customers in Argentina, Bermuda, China, Ecuador, Niger, Peru and South Korea, along with new airport locations across Europe and Asia. In the U.S., AT&T's expanded WiFi footprint includes new hot spots at 15 additional airports. Most of these hotspots are located in areas open to the public such as terminal gates and food courts.

 

Last year, AT&T joined forces with WeRoam, an aggregator of mobility management systems for wireless telecoms, in order to expand its WiFi access footprint in new regions throughout Europe. The partnership enabled AT&T to have more than 18,000 total hot spots in Europe, including points of access in Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Spain, Hungary, Ireland, France and Israel. Additionally, AT&T now has a WiFi footprint through WeRoam in Brazil, Japan and Taiwan.

 

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