Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

A nice little gift dropped in my hands today, the new Blackberry 9700 from Vodafone Ireland.
I have been watching Vodafone closely lately and have been to a few of their events, I really like their new slogan “Best Performing mobile broadband” so to stick with that I would like the best comment involving the best [...]

Post’s from Andy and Ben’s “Broadband In My Car” got me thinking

“I wonder can I do this?”
It should be quite simple really, 1. A USB cigarette charger and a USB2 cable to charge the Novatel MiFi device. 2. A vodafone sim for MiFi for only $19.99 a month including 10GB.
3. Two pieces of blue tack [...]

The cool guys from NovaTel Wireless had promised me one of these for a few months for testing and after much nudging and prodding it arrived on Friday.
Andy has been writing about it for a few weeks now but I think its the first one on these shores.
So what is MiFi?
A mobile broadband dongle? yes
A [...]