Frontier, AirTies Make Home Wi-Fi Connection

Looking to provide better, more consistent in-home Wi-Fi, Frontier Communications is hawking AirTies Wireless Networks’ Smart Mesh Wi-Fi” platform via Frontier Secure, a site that sells a mix of smart home products and services. Per the site, Frontier is selling the AirTies Smart Mesh Wi-Fi product individually for $72 and in pairs for $144. Customers link those devices to the main router/gateway to expand and improve Wi-Fi access in the home. Frontier sells products and services via Frontier Secure to residential and small business customers on a national basis, and offers products wholesale through strategic partnerships.

Frontier is the second (and largest) North American operator to deploy AirTies’s Wi-Fi Mesh product; the first was Midco, which is selling a whole-home Wi-Fi service starting at $7.95 per month. Frontier said it also has trials underway with mid-sized and large service providers in the US AirTies is working with several providers outside the US, including Sky, Vodafone, Singtel, and Swisscom.