Boingo Wireless

LIVE FROM MWL UNWRAPPED: Boingo Wireless Chief Commercial Officer Michael Zeto (pictured) called for bigger investment in smart city innovations to democratise the benefits for more people.

LIVE FROM MWC21 LOS ANGELES: San Diego Padres CEO Erik Greupner (pictured, left) explained a private wireless network at the baseball team’s stadium enabled it to implement contactless transactions and discussed details about future plans for the network…

A US Major League Baseball team began trialling a private wireless network from Boingo Wireless for stadium operations, removing traffic from public mobile networks and harvesting data to improve services.

Digital Colony finalised an $854 million acquisition of DAS and Wi-Fi specialist Boingo Wireless, with its new owner highlighting the potential of the latter’s military and private enterprise networks businesses.

The board of Wi-Fi and DAS specialist Boingo Wireless unanimously backed a $854 million takeover bid by infrastructure investment company Digital Colony, with the proposed deal expected to close in Q2.

Boingo Wireless hired a former AT&T executive to help it identify new business opportunities, as the company presses ahead with a restructuring plan.

Analysts pointed to infrastructure providers and private equity companies as potential buyers of Boingo Wireless, but warned the Wi-Fi and distributed antenna system (DAS) provider would likely be broken up as part of any transaction.