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The industry is trying to standardize a settlement process through which carriers would sort out who gets paid when a customer roams from one service area to another.

In the meantime,aggregators and clearinghouses are stepping in. They partner with multiple wireless LAN service providers, aggregate the players’networks to create a merged footprint and put a common brand on the services.

Wireless ISP aggregator Boingo,which launched its services in January,is “partnering with every Wi-Fi [wireless] ISP we can find to build out our network,” says Christian Gunning, director of product management.“It is cost-prohibitive for a single carrier to be ubiquitous. But having a patchwork of [Wi-Fi] locations and different ways to authenticate themselves and log on is confusing and difficult for users.”

Longtime IP remote-access players iPass and Gric — which aggregate and broker worldwide dial-up IP services — also have begun expanding their services to include wireless LAN offerings.

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