MySpace signs free Wi-Fi deal

 

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By Matthew Sparkes

Posted on 6 Aug 2008 at 08:50

MySpace has signed a deal with The Cloud to offer free Wi-Fi access to its users at over 7,000 hotspots throughout the country.

The deal will run until October, at which point users will have to subscribe to the service or go without their mobile social networking fix.

"MySpace users want to easily communicate with their friends and discover exciting, relevant content wherever they happen to be," says Anthony Lukom, managing director of MySpace UK.

However, the rise of unlimited mobile data plans and mobile broadband is now giving users the chance to do just that without the constraint of staying near a hotspot that this deal brings.

As part of the promotion The Cloud's landing page will be branded with MySpace advertising, directing new users to the site.

The Cloud has a history of similar contracts with third party customers to provide free access to their content.

In October last year the BBC announced that it would be providing access to all of its sites for free via the network, and Microsoft Vista and Skype deals have also been run in the past.

Earlier this week it emerged that MySpace is the target for a new worm which turns infected machines into zombie PCs on a botnet. The malicious code is transmitted via profile messages that appear to come from user's contacts.