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3G roaming vs WiFi roaming - there is a clear winner

Posted from Barcelona Airport - on the way back from Mobile World Congress.

Logged onto the Kubi WiFi access point in the airport.  Before connecing via my BT OpenZone roaming account, I thought I’d check the roaming charges - on Kubi access is 12.7p per minute!  That’s  £7.62 per hour!
In contrast, my Vodafone data card is just [...]

Will the 3G mobile broadband “dongle” kill the WiFi hotspot market?

The picture on the left (taken late December 2007) shows a more common sight than a few years ago.  I have been using WiFi in Starbucks and other coffee shops for nearly 8 years now, and for I think the last 6 years I was predictably the only person on a laptop (connected to WiFi) [...]