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.

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Using the attendant, consumers will be able to access programs from sources on the internet, wireline, wireless or WiFi.

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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.

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