The options here range from always-on connections over a GPRS or 3G network, through connection on demand with wireless LAN hotspots, to the good old-fashioned approach of dialling up from your laptop over a fixed line.
Addressing a packed session at the ITU Telecom World event in Geneva, Sarin sketched out the Vodafone Mobile Connect card offering - a PC card that will seek out wireless LAN, GPRS and eventually 3G connections, choosing the most suitable type of...
According to Peter Cochrane, it's becoming increasingly easy to get online in office buildings and public places - if you show a little ingenuity. In many office buildings, it is now possible to find between one and three Wi-Fi signals available...
Wi-Lan said its Versatile Intelligent Network Environment technology deployed in India is designed to 'line of sight' limitations, using network nodes as repeaters and routers for other nodes that either do not have line-of-sight or are too...
The Ethernet Virtual LAN (Evlan) service extends BT's existing LAN/SAN extension service, which uses fibre connections to make Ethernet links between places up to 25km apart and is currently being rolled out to all London schools in a government...
To a first approximation my connectivity is around 85 per cent by wi-fi and 15 per cent by wire LAN. Around 35 per cent of connections were free, whilst 60 per cent were via low-cost commercial services, and just five per cent were at 'rip-off...