Itelligent Communications Update
Make Mine a Double Cheeseburger and Wi-Fi
McDonalds are to become the UK’s largest access point for Wi-Fi when it completes the roll out of FREE Wi-Fi across its 1,200 outlets later this year. It has been announced that you are not obliged to buy anything to take advantage of the service although it is more than likely you will. Will the sound of clicking keyboards and VoIP access phones drown the normal sound of McDonald’s munching clients? It is not a hard choice to make between Starbucks and McDonald’s as Starbucks offer the expensive T-mobile access while sipping their coffee.
Not only laptop-using consumers will think this is a great deal - think of the growing range of wifi-enabled mobile devices that include GSM/wifi mobile phones, Skype phones and the new iPod Touch.
If you can connect to the net without a browser-based log in process, you’ll be able to use many of these devices.
Just nip into a McDonald’s and munch a Big Mac while you make some free phone calls or get some more songs from the iTunes Wifi Music Store.
Google –v- Microsoft
Google have announced their new offering of the phone of the future but it is not a competitor to the new Apple iphone. It will have an operating system that will rival Microsoft’s Windows Mobile and instead of charging a licensing fee for the system, it is believed that Google will rely on advertising to make money, making it better value for users.
DSL still reigns supreme
Around 64% of the world’s 313 million broadband connections are using DSL while nearly 22% connected through cable.
Western Europe retains the lead for the number of subscribers with some 72 million using DSL as their means of connecting to the Internet.
15 countries now have over 3 million DSL users and 29 have over 1 million.
T-Mobile Outage Black Monday
Black Monday for Blackberry users and those connected to T-mobile as their data provider suffered an unexplained 4 hour outage on Monday, leaving users the task of actually speaking to people for four hours instead of emailing them.
Just like Orange and Vodafone previously T-mobile assures users the problem is now fixed and should not occur again.
When will it be O2 turn to suffer the same fate?
£1,000 challenge from BT
That is what BT have put up for grabs for some developer to come up with a mobile phone application that uses a Wi-Fi connection for something. If you can put together a Symbian application that uses a Wi-Fi connection at some point during its execution then this could be just for you.
Well you have to do something when touring the BT Openzone Wi-Fi Hotspots.