The deal announced this week between iPass and Devicescape was a blow for common sense and genuinely creates a potential partner for any business that needs fast reliable access to WiFi. That makes it a first point of call for WiFi First MVNO style deals, as well as enterprise customers. Both companies try to make a large number of WiFi hotspots available to a common customer base, in Devicescape’s case it was mostly Free WiFi hotspots which are either free or open, and for iPass it was more a case of collecting together sites which require some payment, but which would negotiate for a bulk deal with iPass. This is great for mobile offload and a recent deal illustrates this,…