CIMtegration's server checks whether you have registered as an iPass member and whether your username and password are valid. After receiving authorization from CIMtegration, the remote ISP connects you to the Internet and allows complete Internet access. You continue to use your regular web browser or e-mail program. Thus, in effect, though you may be dialling in through a different provider, you are still logging into the Internet via CIMtegration. At the end of your Internet session, the remote ISP passes information regarding the length of the session to the iPass server.
Electronic reports show the roaming usage of each subscriber.