MuniWireless

I am a Fonero. I have a FON access point in my house in Amsterdam because I like to share my wireless connection. I have been a Fonero for several years, but when I travel, I don’t see a lot of Foneros around and that’s sad because the idea behind FON is that if I share my connection, I can find other Foneros willing to share theirs. So wherever I go in the world, I can get free Wi-Fi service.…

Italy will be the first country to see the iPhone offered by not one, but two mobile phone operators: Vodafone and Telecom Italia. Apple signed a deal with Vodafone to sell the iPhone in India, New Zealand, Australia, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Greece, Italy, Portugal, South Africa and Turkey.

Why has Apple abandoned its policy of selling the iPhone exclusively through one partner? Analysts cite the disappointing sales of the iPhone in the UK, Germany and France, although some attribute that…

If you have an iPhone, you can now make free VOIP calls over Wi-Fi, thanks to Fring, an application that has been available for devices such as Nokia’s Symbian phones. According to Fring, they are the first “native” mobile VOIP application for the iPhone. This is very handy for iPhone owners who are traveling abroad and want to avoid roaming charges when they make voice calls.

I just came back from an exhausting three days at the Mobile World Congress (formerly 3GSM) in Barcelona, talking to mobile device manufacturers (specifically Nokia), MVNOs and applications developers. Several things struck me.

First, at the Nokia press conference on Monday morning, February 11, after the CEO and one of the executives announced the new Nokia devices (6210 Navigator, N96, 6220 with 5-megapixel camera), analysts and journalists could ask only one question: when is Nokia going to embed touch screen technology…

One important driver for public broadband networks is the ability to support a broad range of mobile devices. Municipalities typically see two major benefits in catering to such activity. The first is to allow citizens to use their own mobile devices, either in hotspot areas or freely roaming around a city. The second is that public workers can perform work such as building inspection, completing forms and reports onsite, and avoiding both the need to return to their offices and…