HotelChatter.com has just released their 2012 report on WiFi in hotels. There is some good news bit also still a lot of bad news. Charges as high as $20 per day (or even worse per day AND per device) still exist! On top of that many hotels still use a “regular” DSL line to backhaul [...]
Posts Tagged ‘wifi’
2012 hotel WiFi report; the good and the bad.
Posted: April 19, 2012 in Uncategorized, wifiTags: hotel, internet, wifi
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Dublin gets “free” WiFi. Again….
Posted: April 9, 2012 in Uncategorized, wifi, wifi hotspot portalTags: dublin, dublin city council, eircom, evert bopp. bitbuzz, free, merrion square, municipal, smithfield square, technology, the cloud, wifi, wolfe tone square
Last week Labour Councillor Oisin Quinn announced that his proposal to provide free public wifi in certain parts of Dublin had gone out to tender. This is further than the proposal by FG councillor Naoise O’Muiri in 2007 had gotten when his proposal was dead-ended out of fears that it might be seen as illegal [...]
20,000,000 wifi connections in 11 days!!!
Posted: August 21, 2011 in Uncategorized, wifiTags: 3g, at&t, evert bopp, hotspot, umts, wifi
The below figures were released by AT&T last month but I’ve only come across them today as I am seriously behind on my feed due to a house move.. Anyway, the figures released by AT&T show a number of very interesting trends. First of all there is the totally amazing number of 20,000,000 (yes 20 [...]
Haiti: communications in disaster areas.
Posted: June 27, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: communications, haiti, wifi
Below is the video of I talk I gave recently at the Dublin Ignite event. If anyone is wondering why I speak so fast then look up the concept of Ignite events.
“Checkins with a purpose”; using location based services in disaster response..
Posted: May 28, 2011 in news, UncategorizedTags: communications, disaster, gsm, haiti, sar, tsunami, ushahidi, wifi
One of the factors that led to my involvement in the disaster response and rebuilding after the Haitian earthquake last year started many years before after the tsunami that hit the Indian Ocean in late 2004. At the time I was following the disaster recovery efforts closely and one of the things I noticed was [...]
Researching the state of broadband in Ireland.
Posted: May 15, 2011 in 3g, bandwidth, broadband, broadband fiber MAN tipperary, broadband government ecTags: 3g, adsl, broadband, internet access, wifi, wimax
In light of the recently announced Rural Broadband Scheme in Ireland I am doing some research for an upcoming article. To get some basic details for this I would appreciate if you the reader could complete the two polls below. Thank you.
Everyone around here is talking about President Obama’s visit to his ancestral village of Moneygall which is only a short drive away from where I live. As is to be expected his visit will generate a substantial amount of press coverage on local, national & international level. News-crews from all over the world are expected [...]
Providing emergency communications for Haiti.
Posted: January 17, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: assistance, haiti, relief, volunteer, wifi
Last night while sitting on the couch I got one of my brainwaves; why not try to organise a volunteer effort to set up an outdoor wifi network for Haiti using wifi? Now I have for years been playing with the idea of developing emergency (disaster zone proof) wifi units that without too much work [...]
Five tech predictions for 2010
Posted: December 24, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: 2010, predictions, rfid, technology, twitter, wifi
2010 will see a huge surge in wifi usage. Those who thought that wifi was on the way out will be proven wrong. The ever increasing use of smartphone and other devices with built-in wifi will only grow the demand. The recent spate of 3G or Wimax to wifi devices is also an indicator. Mobile [...]
