Free Wi-Fi hotspots in the U.S. are now available to nine million Verizon residential broadband customers using many of the carrier's more expensive DSL or FiOS internet services plans, Verizon announced today.

The expanded Wi-Fi service relies on Boingo Wireless access points located in 30,000 locations, including airports, hotels and coffee shops in the U.S. Not all 30,000 U.S. locations will be available, a Verizon spokesman said. He declined to elaborate on how many of the hotspots would be available, except to say the number is in the "thousands."

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