Two stories in WirelessWeek on the subject of LTE that have been covered in a few places caught my eye and demanded amplification. The first is about Verizon's Rural Program and a rural mobile operator in Tennessee, Blugrass Cellular joining the Verizon LTE enablement program. This is very smart business for both parties as it quickly … Read more
Engadget reports that Skype is adding Pre-Paid as a way to top off, making them look more and more like a mobile operator. They're retailing Pre-Paid cards at a slew of technology and consumer shops across the UK, much like they are already doing in Mexico. What this means is those without credit cards, or … Read more
If you ever lost anything while traveling, you know how frustrating the whole process of filing a claim, and ever hoping you'll receive your lost property back. In an era where we travel with smartphones, tablets, laptops, headphones and USB drives, losing any of those can be emotionally catastrophic unless you work for Apple or … Read more
According to most recent surveys, passengers don't want in flight calling on airliners flying around the globe. That's interesting because for many years GTE (now a part of Verizon) had an in flight calling service where phones were one every row, and each first class seat had a phone. I was one of those people … Read more
I’m sitting where it should be sunny. And, it’s not. This afternoon will mean visiting with good friends from Finland, who I know from Los Angeles, who live here as my friend is the Deputy Counsel General, and his wife an international business attorney. I’m in a hotel which is by all means a resort, … Read more
As someone who has been using Boingo's VPN service on my iPhone and iPad, I love how elegantly it works, and what it does to protect sensistive transmissions in places where one never knows who may be snooping, so when I saw the news in Engadget about Boingo adding their VPN feature to Mac and … Read more
Image via CrunchBase Are you seeing strangeness since Skype updated it's client to 6.0 on the Mac OS? Are you seeing messages appear out of order time wise? Are you finding messages are going through from iPad but showing as pending? Are your calls via Skype Out not presenting your Skype In Number or designated … Read more
Today, I’m in the Alentejo wine region of Portugal, on a business related project that I have started in addition to what my agency is already involved in. One of the things I have been enjoying, not only on this trip, but on all trips to Portugal is how efficient and effective their network infrastructure … Read more
English: T-Mobile logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The MetroPCS acquisition by T-Mobile in the USA is going to be about more than just spectrum and customers. It's about technology. While AT&T and Verizon diddle about trying to keep the next guy down, T-Mobile is about to leapfrog and be the USA's equivilant to Three in the … Read more
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Hurricane Sandy proved something. Our infrastructure for communications isn't hurricane proof. As the New York Times reports on what the FCC has determeined, it seems the northeastern United States became in spots a country back in the sixties, where the only thing that seemed to work was a wired landline and one … Read more
