Jan/Feb 2006

Joined-up wireless connectivity has take a small step forward with the news that US-based iPass, a specialist in mobile Internet and Wi-Fi integration, has acquired GoRemote, which specialises in links to remote workers in fixed offices.

Among target users, GoRemote cites teleworkers and employees in home offices, branch offices and retail locations. It links them with their bases primarily through what are termed managed broadband services.

According to Ken Denman, iPass chairman and chief executive: "Enterprise customers increasingly have been demanding a single source of secure broadband for all their mobile and remote employees worldwide. As a result of this acquisition, iPass will have the answer with a complete suite of broadband services."