Hotels Make Excuses About Poor Bandwidth

Hotels are being attacked by users who are demanding better, and more robust bandwidth in their rooms and conference facilities. They are reacting by blaming things like Peer To Peer file sharing which for some funny reason is cutting into their Pay Per View revenue, services like You Tube where the content is fee and … Read more

When It Comes To Business HotSpots BT Says “Open Up”

BT (British Telecom) is providing a method to business broadband customers to easily create a hotspot that they can provide to their customers for free or via the sale of BT OpenZone Vouchers. This is one more way people can stay connected but from a business perspective it provides one more reason for UK customers … Read more

Ad Supported Calling

In an era where online advertising is being challenged every day, facing uncertainties like its print siblings, PokeTalk out of Israel is trying to reverse the trend and provide calls for ads. I’m not convinced this is a long term business model to market with towards anyone who can afford phone service or is part … Read more

Comcast Now Likes WiFi

Now Comcast likes WiFi. For years, on panels and elsewhere, I’ve been saying that the best partner for WiFi networks in public spaces are the cable operators. Now it seems that Cablevision has broken ranks and is going wireless to benefit their customers, so too is Comcast. This is something that should have happened seven … Read more

DeviceScape Study Reveals More About WiFi

Om Malik yesterday posted about his iPhone and WiFi, relating the study to some of HIS favorite apps. Two he highlighted are two clients, Truphone and Boingo. At SFO Airport last week and again earlier this week I made a series of international calls using my iPhone using Truphone. I also made some domestic ones … Read more