ASTRI Selects Boingo Embedded Toolkit to Enable Wi-Fi Roaming on Wireless VoIP Phone Design.

Hong Kong Research Company to Enable W-iSIP Wi-Fi Phone with Boingo Roaming Capability

BARCELONA, Spain -- Boingo Wireless Inc., the world's leading wholesale network aggregator and operator of neutral-host Wi-Fi networks, today announced that Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) has adopted the Boingo[R] Wi-Fi Embedded Toolkit for use in its Wi-Fi phone reference design. The Wi-Fi toolkit will make ASTRI's Wi-Fi phone capable of roaming at tens of thousands of commercial hot spots around the world.

ASTRI has developed the W-iSIP, a turnkey Wi-Fi phone reference design that leverages Linux for cost-effectiveness and ASTRI's own VoIP protocol software for high performance and robust SIP features. The W-iSIP comes with a complete software development kit (SDK) for customizing a wide range of voice quality and functionality features.

The Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit enables handsets and other mobile devices to easily and transparently authenticate to Boingo's Wi-Fi hotspots worldwide. Users will be able to turn on their devices and enjoy a broadband Wi-Fi connection when in range of any Boingo Hot Spot in venues such as hotels, airports, convention centers, and retail stores around the world.

"Wi-Fi phones are opening up a new market for low-cost mobile calling, which is really only fulfilled if the device can roam onto public hot spots," said Jonathan Mendelson, director of business development for devices at Boingo Wireless. "ASTRI is a world-class research company with cutting-edge technologies, and its selection of the Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi toolkit is a visionary statement that roaming will be an essential part of the next-generation of Wi-Fi phone designs."

"Our expertise at ASTRI lies in VoIP protocol, wireless communication, high mobility and cost-effectiveness of the solution," said Dennis Lee, director of business development at Enterprise & Consumer Electronics Group of ASTRI. "In Boingo, we have found a partner with tens of thousands of global points of presence that provide extensive public area coverage to our Wi-Fi handsets."

Boingo and ASTRI are working together to develop and field test the Wi-Fi toolkit's integration into the W-iSIP phone in both Hong Kong and North America. OEMs and ODMs who are interested in adopting the W-iSIP platform, including Boingo's commercial Wi-Fi roaming capabilities, should contact ASTRI.

About ASTRI's W-iSIP Wi-Fi Phone

ASTRI W-iSIP Wi-Fi Phone is a high performance and cost effective reference design. It is a complete turnkey solution for phone manufacturers to make a SIP-compliant Wi-Fi-enabled VoIP phone. Bundling with a complete telephony suite, W-iSIP Wi-Fi Phone offers a solid platform of superior voice quality, Wi-Fi hot spot access, Wi-Fi mobility, software SDK and production tools.

About ASTRI

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited (ASTRI) began its operation in 2001 to capture the promises of technological advances for Hong Kong through applied research. In April 2006, ASTRI was appointed by the Innovation and Technology Commission to host the Hong Kong R&D Centre for Information and Communications Technologies (Hong Kong R&D Centre for ICT) to perform high quality R&D for technology transfer to industry, through paid licensing or service contracts for the purposes of commercialization.

As a world-class applied research institution, ASTRI's R&D activities focus on four closely interrelated technological areas - Communications Technologies, Enterprise & Consumer Electronics, IC Designs and Material & Packaging Technologies. Our goals are to build teams of excellent researchers who conduct world-class research and create real economic impact by transferring the intellectual properties they develop in customer-focused ways to the ICT industries of Hong Kong and Greater China. For more information, please visit our website at www.astri.org.

About Boingo Embedded

The Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit is an open source solution that runs on BREW, Linux, Symbian OS, Windows Mobile 2003 and Windows Mobile 5. It is designed for service providers, OEMs, ODMs, and chipset manufacturers that develop Wi-Fi equipped devices and want to enable global roaming on commercial hot spot networks. It is also available as licensed software. More information is available at www.boingo.com/embedded.

The Boingo Mobile service provides unlimited Internet access to users of Wi-Fi enabled devices that run the Boingo Embedded Wi-Fi Toolkit. Users of those devices can access the Internet in tens of thousands of hot spots in 77 countries around the world. More information about the service is available at http://mobile.boingo.com.

About Boingo Wireless

Boingo Wireless, Inc. provides global Wi-Fi Internet access through the Boingo[R] Roaming System, which comprises 60,000 hot spots in airports, hotels, cafes and other public places, including metropolitan hot zones. Business travelers can use a single Boingo account to log in at Wi-Fi networks around the world using one username and password. Boingo Roaming System services can also be private labeled by telcos, wireless operators, Internet service providers (ISP) and managed service providers (MSP) as part of their own branded services for laptops, handsets and mobile devices. Through its Concourse Communications Group LLC subsidiary, Boingo operates neutral host wireless access systems that provide wireless voice and data services supporting public and commercial interests. More information about Boingo and Concourse is available at http://www.boingo.com and http://www.concoursecommunications.com.

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