Vodafone Adds Irish Wi-Fi
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[WNN Europe] Vodafone has signed with BitBuzz and BT OpenZone to offer its 530,000 Irish customers Wi-Fi hotspot access: The price is an outrageous €5 for 30 minutes or €10 per hour—outrageous from my U.S. vantage point, but apparently not out of line in Ireland. Vodafone will apparently also allowing roaming across Europe “without roaming fees” as the article puts it—but obviously priced in this same fashion. (Ironically, I’m reporting this from Seattle; our Dublin correspondent, Nancy Gohring, is on holiday.)
Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.
[WNN Europe] Boingo Roams to Ireland: Vodafone and Boingo are two big names to enter the market in Ireland and their presence might help spur the market a bit by drawing attention to Ireland. Eircom and BT Openzone also operate hotspots here as do some others including Swisscom which just has a few hotels. BT Openzone has about 75 hotspots in Ireland and Eircom operates hotspots in McDonald’s restaurants across the country as well as some hotels and other locations. But this market hasn’t seen a slew of startups chasing the space like in many other countries.
[Eirepreneur.blogs.com] €irePreneur: Vodafone roaming costs in Spain: Text messages back home to Irish mobiles, mostly via the Airtel network, cost 29.7 eurocent each. But a text to my business partner in the USA cost only 20.6c. A 49 second mobile (in Spain) to landline (in Ireland) call, at 8:30 in the evening, cost 73c.
[Eirepreneur.blogs.com] €irePreneur: October 18, 2004 - October 24, 2004: Its just incredible to watch the speed with which the Podcasting ecosystem is flourishing. I believe it barely registered on Google at all only a few short weeks ago and now it yields 107,000 results. Dave Winer added a ping server yesterday to track the 'Last 100 podcasts' and on the list I saw OpenPodcast.org - a dynamically generated podcast to which anyone at all can contribute. It expects "short" segments (under 5 minutes) which will be included in the feed as they are received.
[Cellphones.engadget.com] Western Europe will have as many cellphone lines as people by 2007 ...: If only Vodafone, O2 and the rest would stop the insanity of imposing roaming charges when you cross a border but still pick up vodafone etc. It's truly mad to leave Ireland with your Irish Vodafone mobile (for example), go to the UK and pick up Vodafone UK, then head on to Spain, Sweden etc, and get the local vodafone in each case. It's all vodafone, but you still pay roaming.
[Comwreck.com] ComWreck > Blog 14 feb 2004: P.S.: Your spokesperson managed to justify your u-turn on the governments broadband goals so eloquently: “Instead of setting a goal that we might not have be able to achieve, we’re setting a goal that we can achieve. The timeframe has changed but the goal is the same: we want to be among the top ten OECD countries.” I just like it how he misleads the public about the initial goal: Ireland claimed to be within the top 10 percent of OECD countries by 2005, not within the top 10 countries! But even to reach a place within the top ten is now buried anyway. To beat Poland will do fine.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Hotspots, Wireless Networking News
Posted at May 25, 2005 10:47 AM
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