Comcast, Liberty Global Forge A Wi-Fi Connection

Comcast and Liberty Global have struck a Wi-Fi roaming agreement that will allow their respective customers to access millions of hotspots in the US and seven countries in Europe. The Wi-Fi roaming/peering deal, a first between MSOs that serve customers in the US and abroad, is poised to provide access to more than 10 million hotspots in the early phases -- Comcast expects to have 8 million “Xfinity Wi-Fi” hotspots up by year’s end, while Liberty Global expects to have 2.5 million by then under its “Wi-Free” and “WifiSpots” SSID signals in several countries, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Ireland, Poland, and Switzerland.