Chapter 7: Boingo™ Hot Spot In A Box® Program For Hot Spot Businesses; Program Overview; Simple Hot Spot In A Box Program - Linksys WRV54G User Manual

Wireless-G VPN Broadband Router
Chapter 7: Boingo
Businesses

Program Overview

Boingo Hot Spot in a Box is a program for businesses that want to offer wireless networking services for their
customers. Enabling the Boingo Hot Spot in a Box feature will turn the Linksys Wireless-G VPN Broadband Router
into a commercial hot spot. The service is powered by Boingo Wireless, the leading WI-Fi service provider, and
has been designed for small business that need a single hot spot installation.
Wi-Fi is the fastest growing segment of the Internet industry and there are already millions of people carrying Wi-
Fi enabled notebooks and PDAs. Now you can harness Wi-Fi to make money and provide a valuable service to
your customers. Wi-Fi service will grow to hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years. Notebook
manufacturers are already building Wi-Fi capability into their machines, rapidly making Wi-Fi a standard
computer component similar to the way the 56k modem is standard today.

Simple Hot Spot in a Box Program

The Boingo Hot Spot in a Box simplifies your process to become part of this exciting technology movement. Here
is the program:
1. Enable the Boingo Hot Spot in a Box feature during the setup of the Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router.
2. Register as a Boingo Hot Spot in a Box owner and configure your Hot Spot in a Box using Boingo's online
setup wizard. Your location will be listed in the Boingo directory, which is available on our website and in the
Boingo client software, which will reside on the notebooks and handhelds of millions of mobile users.
3. Market the program with the Hot Spot in a Box marketing kit that Boingo will send you. This kit includes
everything you need to sell access in your location, including 300 brochures explaining the service and
technology, 20 table tents promoting the service, as well as 10 Boingo stickers and CDs to sign up additional
customers. Boingo will also send you a presentation describing the most effective ways to promote your
location, and Boingo will advise you along the way.
4. Collect a check that Boingo will send you every month for aggregate customer connections and customers
you sign up to the service.
Chapter 7: Boingo™ Hot Spot in a Box® Program for Hot Spot Businesses
Program Overview
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Hot Spot in a Box
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Program for Hot Spot
IMPORTANT: Make sure to check with your
Internet Service Provider's terms of service
agreement to see if they allow hot spots on your
plan before you continue.
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