After pairing with Verizon to offer Wi-Fi access to its wireline subscribers, Boingo is now working with Verizon Wireless to provide Wi-Fi support for its Android smartphone users, said Hagan.
However, the conventional wisdom was that Comcast had won itself a battle but would ultimately lose the war in spectacular fashion, since the obvious move for the FCC would have been to reclassify broadband access as a Title II "telecommunications service, " which is the same way the agency regulates wireline phones, and ISPs would have suddenly found themselves in a regulatory nightmare.