Sprint and AT&T Wireless today announced a reciprocal WiFi roaming agreement for Denver, Kansas City, Philadelphia, Raleigh-Durham, and Salt Lake City international airports. This is the first roaming agreement between Sprint and AT&T Wireless for WiFi service.

Under the agreement, Sprint PCS WiFi Access customers will be able to add Denver International, Philadelphia International and Raleigh Durham International airports to the list of locations available to them to stay connected to the Internet, access their corporate networks, or check e-mail via a WiFi enabled laptop or PDA. AT&T WiFi subscribers will be able to access the same range of services at Kansas City International and Salt Lake City International airports. The companies' respective customers will be able to roam using their existing user ID's and passwords.

"Customers will reap the productivity benefits of Sprint PCS WiFi Access at additional locations," explained Wes Dittmer, General Manager of WLAN services at Sprint. "WiFi is an integral part of Sprint's remote access strategy, and we are fostering customer productivity by providing multi-megabit wireless data speeds at an ever-growing list of venues that are frequented by mobile employees. Sprint is also pursuing other WiFi opportunities beyond today's announcement, representing not only other airports but a variety of locations that cater to both business and consumer audiences."

"Through our own properties and roaming agreements, AT&T Wireless offers WiFi access in hundreds of locations around the country to serve the needs of today's mobile professionals," said Jeff Bradley, senior vice president for business data offers at AT&T Wireless. "This agreement with Sprint will add important new venues and builds on our strategy of expanding WiFi networks as a compliment to our national, wide-area EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for Global Evolution) network."

The parties expect to complete integration efforts and enable roaming at the respective airports as soon as possible. For rates and technical support to connect to either the Sprint PCS WiFi Access or the AT&T Wireless service (now merged with Cingular).