Rummble Acquires Global WiFi Community

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Rummble are today announcing the acquisition of Total Hotspots, the global WiFi community. This deal brings a global WiFi database to all Rummble users, along with an active community and partnerships.

I met Andrew Scott and the Rummble team on a bus at FOWA London 2008. After mad dash to Scotland to face-off against 3G at Hadrians Wall on the Gadget Show, we launched Total Hotspots for iPhone which combines Rummble’s mobile platform and a rich database of global WiFi hotspots.

WiFi provides a better mobile data experience and usage has increased by around 50% in 2009, with over a billion public connections. This is the most advanced app of its type, not only telling you where the nearest paid and free hotspots are around the world, but also providing personalised recommendations for those venues. To celebrate the acquisition, Total Hotspots for iPhone has been reduced from £2.99 to just £0.59 over Christmas (iTunes link).

I have joined Rummble’s founding team as VP Business, to help drive service development and key partnerships. Total Hotspots was created in 2004, while studying Business and Computing at City University, London, helping more than a million people find WiFi on the way.

Alex Housley | alex.housley [at] rummble.com | @ahousley