Belkin and Boingo have beaten NetGear to the punch on a cool Boingo HotSpot bundle.
At the 2006 CES Skype Press Conference with Netgear I posed the question to Netgear CEO Patrick Lo about the possibility of having a deal with Boingo and The Cloud, the two Skype Zone partners. I also posed the same question to Skype PR officials.
Basically the reply was, that those “service provider” had to make deals with NetGear or vice versa and that they would occur down the road. Well, they have. Only with Belkin (unless Boingo has a deal with Netgear I don’t know about.)