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

I have never been a huge Skype fan believing that people speak on phones rather than computers and that 5 billion is a much more interesting number than 28 million. I am though a fan of a new application called Viber which appears to be taking the world of telephony by storm. Friends who would be [...]

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 [...]

Some interesting news floating around regarding Apple and its interest in purchasing iCall a USA VOIP provider. iCall allows iPhone users when in a hotspot to divert calls off of the GSM network and onto the WiFi network. I have been testing it for a few week now and quality appears to be as good [...]

Dan dropped me a line on this earlier. “Skype 2.8 Beta for Mac OS X provides screen sharing, WiFi access, chat features and Twitter-like mood messages” My initial thought was “wow, incredible, at last two industry leaders Boingo and Skype get it together” Then I happened to read through Dan’s post and came to Probably [...]

Boingo one of my favorite companies and also one of the most useful to the global traveller had a bit of good news today. “Boingo today announces the addition of Tata Communications hotspots to the Boingo Roaming Network, giving Boingo members access to over 500 new hotspots under the Tata Indicom brand. With the addition [...]