WeRoam specialises in wholesale mobility management and roaming solutions for the fixed and mobile telecommunications sector. Its patented open roaming platform connects to nearly 60 WISPs and offers an aggregated footprint of more than 55’000 hotspots. Key solutions found in GSM technology make up the WeRoam solution thus positioning WeRoam as the only open roaming platform supporting username/password and SIM based authentication for WLAN Roaming. All solutions easily integrate with existing products of Internet, Enterprise, GSM and VoIP service providers.
The winners of this year's Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards were selected from more than 170 nomination entries from 35 countries across the world by a panel of world-leading experts. “WeRoam has proven itself as a true Wireless Broadband Innovation Award finalist by providing excellence and innovation in a highly competitive market place. WeRoam is well-positioned to grow into the future,” said Michael Gebert, Organiser of WBI Awards. This year, all finalists have shown themselves to be highly innovative in their approach to wireless applications and deployments. The WBI Awards’ judges have recognised several large scale deployments in healthcare, resources, transportation and especially municipal wireless, with Europe, the USA and Japan competing in this strong category.
Toni Stadelmann, Board Member of Comfone AG, commented, “It is a great honour to receive this prestigious award for our WeRoam roaming solution. The award reflects our commitment to delivering innovative solutions of the highest standard that will enrich the wireless broadband industry. We are confident that our success in delivering roaming solutions for the Wireless industry will optimize each operator's roaming processes and increase the efficiency of mobile roaming.”
Comfone enables global connectivity and simplified roaming procedures for mobile operators and network providers through a choice of different roaming hubbing solutions. Comfone Key2roam Hub, currently interconnecting 107 live members, takes over full financial liability on behalf of the client operators. Comfone GCS, a technical hub, provides centralisation of signalling and roaming management for operators. Further Comfone hubs include SMS and MMS Hubs as well as Comfone’s WeRoam solution, an open roaming platform connecting over 60 Wireless ISPs and providing an aggregated footprint of more than 55’000 hotspots around the world.