Heise News reported recently about O3b Networks, a new satellite operator who’s mission statement is to connect “The Other 3 Billion” to the Internet. Hence, their name O3b. It was probably worth a post as one of the investors is a certain Google Inc. The company’s web site doesn’t yet contain a lot of material … Continue reading Internet For The Other 3 Billion
Good news on the Wi-Fi front: Linksys has launched the WRT610N access point, which simultaneously operates in the 2.4 GHz band for current 802.11b/g devices and in the 5 GHz band for new 802.11n devices that support the so far little used frequency band. Should make the transition to the new frequency band much easier, … Continue reading Linksys launches a simulatenous 2.4 and 5 GHz Wi-Fi Access Point
Location based services have been the holy grail in mobile for at least half a decade now and I wonder what hasn’t been proposed to mobile operators over the past years from standardized Mobile Location Centers to A-GPS assistance their network could supply to mobile devices? Yet, they haven’t been able to figure out what … Continue reading Location: Another Diminishing Opportunity for Mobile Operators
A number of train operating companies have started to offer Wifi Internet access in some of their trains over the past year or two like for example in the U.K. or in Germany. Now Thalys, a private train company that links Paris with Brussels and Cologne has started their pilot service for Wifi Internet access … Continue reading More Internet on Train: Thalys Starts Pilot Service
In countries such as Austria and Italy, mobile operators are heavily promoting the use of their HSDPA networks as an alternative to DSL access at home. Pushed by very interesting prices starting at €10.- a month for 250MB, €20.- for 3GB and €50 euros for 20GB in case of One in Austria, only the sky … Continue reading 3G and 4G Wireless Is Private – DSL Is for Sharing
A couple of days have passed since I posted the first entry on the Nokia Maps / Smart2Go application and how it fares for car navigation. In this post I’ll take a look at how well the application fares while being on foot in an unknown city. I am in Rome at the moment and … Continue reading Nokia Maps Review Part 2: Navigating in Rome
Every now and then I go and check which search phrases lead people to my site. Today I stumbled over "Nokia N80 as WLAN access point". Google was nice enough to lead the searcher to an earlier post of mine about the N80 WLAN and SIP capabilities. The person looking for this was probably a … Continue reading A Nokia N80 as WLAN Access Point – A Double Blow for Mobile Operators?