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<DESCRIPTION>FORM 3 - PETER HOVENIER
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        <footnote id="F2">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on July 1, 2003; exercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaining shares subject to this option each month thereafter</footnote>
        <footnote id="F3">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on January 1, 2005; excercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaining shares subject to this option each month thereafter</footnote>
        <footnote id="F4">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on August 25, 2005; exercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaining shares subject to this option each month thereafter</footnote>
        <footnote id="F5">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on October 31, 2006; exercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaining shares subject to this option each month thereafter</footnote>
        <footnote id="F6">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on August 31, 2007; exercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaining shares subject to this option each month thereafter</footnote>
        <footnote id="F7">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on June 15, 2008; exercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaining shares each month thereafter</footnote>
        <footnote id="F8">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on November 18, 2009; exercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaning shares subject to this option each month thereafter</footnote>
        <footnote id="F9">Subject to continuous service, this option is exercisable with respect to 1/4th of the shares subject to this option on December 31, 2010; exercisable with respect to an additional 1/36th of the remaining shares each month thereafter</footnote>
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<DESCRIPTION>POWER OF ATTORNEY
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<PRE>
POWER OF ATTORNEY

Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Edward Zinser, David Kim, Kurt Oreshack and Noah Belsky with full
power of substitution, as the undersigned's true and lawful attorneys-in-fact to:
(1) prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the undersigned's behalf,
and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") a Form ID,
including amendments thereto, and any other documents necessary or appropriate
to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned to make electronic
filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 or any rule or regulation of the SEC;
(2) execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of Boingo Wireless, Inc. (the "Company") and/or 10%
holder of the Company's capital stock, Forms 3, 4, and 5 in accordance with
Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;
(3) do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto, and timely file such
form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar authority; and
(4) take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorneys-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorneys-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorneys-in-fact may approve in such
attorneys-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein granted.
The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in
such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming, nor is the
Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply with
Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned
is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's
holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier
revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the foregoing
attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 27th day of April 2011


/s/ Peter Hovenier
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