MILAN — With the proliferation of Wi-Fi hotspots, it has become possible to open a laptop and connect to the Internet in just about any major airport as well as thousands of hotels, restaurants, cafes and bars. Yet logging on can sometimes be onerous, and pricing is likely to be expensive and opaque. That has opened the way for what are called aggregators, companies that bring together the Wi-Fi networks of many different operators and allow clients to connect in the same manner and at the same price whether they are at a café in Los Angeles, an airport in Milan or a hotel in Bangkok. While aggregators can make logging on easier by having a standardized system, costs have remained high – so high in fact that a recent survey found that almost two-thirds of people who use Wi-Fi outside of their homes consider the service overpriced. Boingo Wireless, one of the biggest aggregators with more than 100,000 hotspots, is introducing on Monday what it says is the first worldwide flat-rate plan for Wi-Fi hotspots. For a monthly fee of €29, or $39, subscribers can use any of the company’s affiliated hotspots for as long as they […]