The Sofitel in Philadelphia is an awesome broadband experience. They offered iBahn wired in the rooms, but T-Mobile everywhere. My speeds, over 2.3 megs in both directions on T-Mobile. I never turn on iBahn this trip. The T-Mobile experience was great for downloading iTunes videos quickly, for VoIP calls on both GizmoProject and Skype and … Read more
One more reason for airline clubs. Decent broadband. In the general terminal area I’m getting at best 236k down on a Sunday, but over a meg upload ability. This tell me that alot of people are likely on the network, but also that the network is underpowered. Compare this to Philadelphia, which is an AT&T/Wayport … Read more
Getting good WiFi on the road…check out the HotelChatter’s ongoing WiFi series. This time…BERLIN
Today being Saturday, and a holiday weekend, I’ll be out and about but there are some interesting post. Skype Journal Jim Courtney writes about more mobile telephony plays. In his post he mentions Mobivox, Truphone, Cubic, iotum and Thomas Howe, plus a few more Skype options. Om Malik has a post about Meraki and Sonic.Net … Read more
David Beckemeyer could have thrown in the towel. He didn’t. Just two days or so ago he IM’d me to say that one of the data centers he was using for Phonegnome was pulling the plug and turning the lights out IN TWO DAYS. David to his credit found another data center, and within a … Read more
While no one is saying exactly how or what he’s up to, Pat has quietly launched Cubic Telecom with promises to lower the cost of international mobile calling.
If you know that you pal is using Truphone and you have a PhoneGnome you can easily call them for free now since both are SIP based companies. Just dial **878 and the Truphone number. This is just one of the networks you can call for free from a PhoneGnome. Once people get beyond the … Read more
I’m going to start a short one or two line post as needed when I see news stories that need to be read, but don’t need a lot of commentary or which may be commented on later. Here’s todays as of 745 AM EDT! Verizon Pushing Wholesale– this clearly puts more pressure on XO, Global … Read more
San Diego Airport used to charge for WiFi via a third party provider. When they had an option to make a change they chose to go “free.” Tonight at gate 33 waiting for my US Air flight I saw what free gets me. 82K download. That is pathetic. I spoke earlier in the week to … Read more
San Diego Airport used to charge for WiFi via a third party provider. When they had an option to make a change they chose to go “free.” Tonight at gate 33 waiting for my US Air flight I saw what free gets me. 82K download. That is pathetic. I spoke earlier in the week to … Read more
