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If you’re flying into London’s newest airport terminal at Heathrow, aptly named “Terminal 5” you’ll be happy to know that you can be working there while you wait for your baggage or are waiting to fly. T-Mobiile Hotspot service is available there now.

Pat’s post about his horror story with Vodafone reminded me about a post I wanted to write about AT&T. It’s one that may spare many business people who are customers frustration and be a benefit to them. The same applies to Verizon here in the USA. Qualify to be a business customers as soon as … Read more

SMS Text News’ Mobile Industry Review has a very responsible public service post about the dangers of your personal details being shared without your knowledge. Check out what they saw in London and think next time you give out yours who may be seeing all that gets inputted into the computer. I recently expressed a … Read more

We’re at the Courtyard by Marriott, just outside the Philadelphia city limits and the broadband is fine and dandy. How fine? Just a tad under 3 megs in both upload and download speeds. Granted it’s a weekend, but still, that tells me this iBahn locations needs to be Working Anywhere Approved so far. We’re here … Read more

Denver has this “ad supported” WiFi service. Some content gets blocked. Speeds are inconsistent and most of all the lag time is horrendously slow. Sure I got about 800 k down and 1.5 up, but the ping time to a local server was 183 milliseconds. I’ll compare that to my SureWest connection in Sacramento to … Read more

I fly in and out of Sacramento airport alot, as my second home is there due to my wife’s medical practice. You don’t move a doctor that easily. I’ve never been a fan of their bandwidth when a private company ran the WiFi concession. About two years or so the Airport realized they weren’t either … Read more

Jim Courtney of Skype Journal has a nice post about the available alternatives to the late, lamented SkypeCasts which Skype decided to stop operating. He picked up on my Meme yesterday (as did others) about the decision by Skype to shutter a community benefit service. The two suggestions are: Calliflower from iotum and VAPPs’ HighDefConferencing.

Over the past few months we’ve seen a rash of complaints from bloggers and users about Skype. Now I see they’ve decided to retire SkypeCasts (hat tip to Stuart Henshall). I’m not sure why they would be doing this, but I suspect it is a pairing down of non-core business efforts under the new regime. … Read more

It looks like the next concept in wireless technology, the so called 4G version is coming on stream with the hype and hoopla of the Super Bowl meets the Democratic National Convention….. It’s WiMax and the push behind it from the Clearwire/Sprint/XOHM team is a full court press. WiMax maven Paul Kapustka has the lowdown … Read more