IT World Canada reports today that Innove Communications' GlobeQUEST is expanding its Wireless Internet Zone (WiZ) service across the Philippines and abroad through domestic and international roaming partnerships.

"With the roaming agreements, the company can now provide a wider Wi-Fi access service to prepaid, postpaid and 'wiz on' subscribers whether they're in the country or traveling overseas," writes reporter Anna Chato. "The 'wiz on' service allows Globe HandyPhone postpaid subscribers to download a username and password by texting a message request. The service will then be billed to the subscriber's account."

"Innove's vision is to bring the Filipinos to the broadband age," says GlobeQUEST's jesus C. Romero. "To support this, GlobeQUEST provides broadband facilities like Wi-Fi to major key establishments where people converge for business, as well as promote Wi-Fi as a strategic tool for education, local government projects, product advertisements, and foreign ventures, among others."

The company is targeting the beachfront area of Boracay as its initial market for WiZ. "We don't just put up a WiZ hotspot anywhere," Romero says. "We make sure that all our hotspots are in strategic areas, in a sense that they must be establishments where businessmen and transient Internet users normally converge such as airports, coffee shops, convention centers, golf clubs, resorts and restaurants. We want to be where it matters to our customers."