As if the experience of flying weren’t bad enough already with lousy (or non-existent) airline food, precious little leg room, massive delays, packed flights and idiotic security “theater” measures, here comes Ofcom, the UK telecoms regulatory authority, with a deranged plan to make the flying experience completely unbearable: Ofcom is allowing UK-registered airlines to let [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mobile’
UK will allow mobile phones on airplanes
Posted: 26 March 2008 in Current events, Technology, TravelTags: cellular, mobile
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Why the French are ahead in broadband; will free mobile calls for ads work
Posted: 7 February 2008 in TechnologyTags: broadband, FTTH, mobile, Wireless
The French don’t just have better food and clothes, they have faster, cheaper broadband too. In Paris you get 50 Mbps symmetrical for 30 EUR per month! Want to know how they got there? The French regulator comes down very hard on France Telecom (read here). How’s Blyk (the free-mobile-calls-for-ads) doing? Not bad. Will this [...]
The problem with mobile Internet today: expensive data plans and roaming charges
Posted: 7 November 2007 in TechnologyTags: iphone, mobile, wifi
In the past few weeks, I have attended two conferences, Mobile 2.0 in San Francisco and Nokia’s Mobile Mashup in Palo Alto, on the supposedly new world of mobile Internet, a paradise where everyone can use these incredible applications on their mobile phones AND access the Internet in all its glory. Unfortunately we’re stuck with [...]
