Tag Archives: data
Making sure you get connected
After the experience of the last few days whilst in France, this article really brings home the need to have a number of options available to you for getting your data connectivity that you need to do your job when travelling. Starbucks is a digital oasis for me.I usually pop in, fire up the Starbucks [...]
Roaming Cost Reductions
This is encouraging news reported via ZDNet UK, long time supporters of reducing roaming costs. The European Commission has unveiled its proposals for driving down the cost of mobile voice, text and data roaming for people travelling in Europe. via EU acts to push down mobile roaming costs | Mobile Working | ZDNet UK. The [...]
Another Tool in the Travellers Toolbox
You land in a strange outpost with your Smartphone and Laptop, you cannot find any WiFi that costs less than $20 per hour, you dare not turn on roaming data on your phone for the horror of $9 per MB charging, you need to feel close to your home country, you need to be able [...]
Mobile Phone Respite
When travelling, one of the worse things you can have is to have to sit near someone talking on the mobile phone or, worse, noisy SMS conversations – you know those, the ones with a bugle horn on every receive! Of course, when you get on a plane this all disappears and it is absolute [...]
Tales of ‘Woaming’ …
In some rather interesting timing, I saw that the EC are to look into the cost of data roaming. The European Commission will soon launch a public consultation into the cost of data roaming, digital agenda commissioner Neelie Kroes announced on Friday. via European data roaming consultation looms | ZDNet UK. I would say interesting [...]
Mobile Broadband Affordability for the Traveller
Interesting news around the Internets today – BBC News – EU moves to prevent ‘shock’ mobile internet bills. As a mobile worker around Europe, I have to struggle with the most cost effective way of having data access for both smartphone and laptop wherever I am. This mostly consists of finding free or low cost [...]
WiFi on Aircraft
Recently I had time to ruminate on the availability of WiFi on aircraft. There is much written and said about this in the US, and on the face of it, it seems that this would be a Nirvana of tech. However there is a big issue with it in the short haul flights of Europe, [...]