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GlobalAirNet provided wireless internet access to four and five star hotels across Europe. Its 5,300 hotspots will bring the total operated by The Cloud to over 20,000 in the UK, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Norway and The Netherlands.

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to Cloud hotspots, while iPod touch users can pay £3.99 per month for the same service.

Steve Nicholson, The Cloud's chief executive, anticipates that over the next 12 to 18 months poor performing mobile data networks provide "a significant opportunity for The Cloud as the imagination of the mass market is captured by the arrival of new multimedia Wi-Fi enabled mobile devices throughout 2008."

He said that the Cloud is now the leading public Wi-Fi provider in the UK, Sweden and Germany

"Our aspiration is to provide high quality, low cost mobile access to the internet which we achieve by building our networks in locations where the public gathers in large numbers or where the business traveller needs a quality data connection, such as in hotels."