Boingo Bringing Its Wi-Fi Services To NYC Subway Stations

For phone calls, however, your best bet is probably still just going old school — d.billy's flickr

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Published May 4, 2012

Modified May 4, 2012

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Subway station internet service is coming to Verizon and Sprint customers. Eventually. Yesterday Boingo Wireless announced that it had struck a deal with Transit Wireless, which manages cell service underground, to bring its wi-fi services to customers underground. Because not everyone has AT&T or T-Mobile!

According to the release, the plan is to eventually have Boingo's hotspots connected to Transit Wireless's growing underground network (the MTA wants full coverage in stations in the next few years). Which means wi-fi for Boingo's users, as well as for users of its partners—which include Spring, Verizon and Skype.

There is no launch date for the new service, just a plan to "gradually roll out over the next five years." Right now Transit Wireless has cell/data service available in a handful of stations, but only for AT&T and T-Mobile customers.