Comfone AG - Comfone welcomes TeliaSonera as the newest affiliate of its WeRoam accessible adrift service

TeliaSonera, arch provider of telecommunications solutions in the Nordic and Baltic region, has abutting WeRoam, Comfone’s accolade acceptable WiFi adrift service.

Bern, Switzerland, 17 September, 2009 – Comfone, provider of adrift casework to added than 300 operators in over 130 countries, is appreciative to acceptable TeliaSonera as the newest affiliate of its WeRoam Wireless IP adrift belvedere with an aggregated brand of over 60’000 hotspots all over the world. As one of the beat WiFi arrangement operators in the Nordic region, TeliaSonera brings 3’400 hotspots to Comfone WeRoam’s network, thereby decidedly accretion WeRoam’s ability in Scandinavia. Already abutting to about 60 WiFi networks worldwide, Comfone WeRoam is able-bodied positioned to abutment TeliaSonera as it extends its all-around WiFi coverage.

Comfone WeRoam is an beat accessible adrift belvedere that supports username/password and EAP (SIM) certificates based affidavit for WLAN Roaming. In the aboriginal bisected of 2009, WeRoam recorded a 43% anniversary access in WLAN cartage as the bazaar appeal for ample WiFi advantage continues to grow. Despite the all-around bread-and-butter downturn, absolutely 80% of Comfone WeRoam cartage in August 2009 was generated by travellers – 72% in hotels and 8% in airports. Combined with a added 12% generated in cafes and restaurants, wireless user trends acutely accentuate the analytical role that adrift plays for wireless operators.

TeliaSonera’s Head of Roaming, Jan Karmakar, commented, “Our barter are continuously accretion their use of adaptable broadband and adaptable abstracts casework both at home and while travelling. Therefore TeliaSonera requires reliable adrift ally like Comfone to essentially access our acceptance to added wireless hotspots acceptance our barter to consistently be online.”

Laurent Freléchoux, Product Marketing Director WeRoam, added explained that with an boilerplate WeRoam affair time of 47 account during the aboriginal bisected of the year, “We are acquainted a connected access in boilerplate affair time, a bright adumbration that end users do acquisition amount in a WiFi adrift service. Compounded with the roll-out of Comfone’s Web Access Portal band-aid above the footprint, the angle for cartage advance looks actual positive.”

In the awful aggressive adrift market, Comfone continues to accommodate avant-garde adrift solutions which optimise anniversary operator's adrift processes and access the ability of adaptable roaming. Comfone’s latest abstruse contributions to facilitate WiMAX-to-WiFi adrift reflect its adequacy and ability of innovation. The outstanding cartage advance on both its WeRoam and its added adrift hubs underscores Comfone’s administration position in the wireless adrift market.

Comfone, provider of adrift casework to over 300 operators in over 130 countries worldwide, is accepted throughout the telecoms industry as an all-embracing adaptable adrift specialist. Comfone's industry ability owes to over ten years of acquaintance and customer-orientated centralized expertise.

Through its different portfolio and added amount added services, Comfone absolutely optimises the ambience up of anniversary operator's adrift processes, facilitating the befalling of abbreviation all-embracing costs. The portfolio ranges from complete outsourcing of adrift to alone elements, such as signalling, data, convergence, allowance and WLAN services. Comfone's beat hub solutions, such as WeRoam, accommodate adaptable operators with common coverage, alternation and allowance through alone one acceding with Comfone and one affiliation to Comfone's axial platform.

Comfone's breath accord in GSMA Working groups, the WiMAX Forum and the Wireless Broadband Alliance ensures that its avant-garde solutions are market-driven. From Comfone's address in Switzerland and bounded offices accoutrement Northern and Eastern Europe, Latin America, North America, Central Asia and Asia Pacific, Comfone is able-bodied placed to abutment and accommodated the requirements of its abundant common chump base. Learn added about Comfone at www.comfone.com.

Comfone AG
Cornelia Lanz
Head of Corporate Communications
Nussbaumstr 25
3000 Bern 22
Switzerland
Tel: +41 (0) 31 341 11 62
Fax: +41 (0) 31 341 10 11
Email: Cornelia.Lanz@comfone.com