A new survey has revealed that access to Wi-Fi is the amenity that travellers most want, dailymail.co.uk reports. Online travel firm, Hotels.com, questioned over 8,600 people in 28 countries about the facilities they most commonly wanted to have use of while staying at a hotel. An overwhelming two-thirds picked free Wi-Fi as their number one. In the light of
Microsoft has installed a free Wi-Fi hotspot into a magazine advert. The adverts, which will feature in select issues of Forbes Magazine, feature a small router with a rechargeable battery, allowing readers to connect to the web for 15 days. The promotion is a unique method of promoting their new Office 365 product, which utilises
In a world first, Dutch operator Ziggo is launching a nationwide free Wi-Fi network. Following a pilot in Groningen using 18,000 hotspots, the project will now be expanded nationwide offering a staggering 1 million hotspots.According to broadbandtvnews.com, the service looks similar to Telnet's hotspot service, however, it is not browser-based. Once a customer has activated the
Fixed line telephone and broadband giant, BT, has begun to search for a partner to re-enter the mobile telecommunications market. British Telecom surprised many when it won £200 million worth of the 2.6GHz spectrum in the 4G auction. However, at the time BT said that it had no intention of re-entering the mobile consumer space,
Thirty New York subway stations are to have cell phone and Wi-Fi services installed as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) continues efforts to have service across all stations by 2016. According to betabeat.com, T-Mobile and AT&T have signed ten-year contracts to provide Wi-Fi and cell service, although the network is being constructed by Transit Wireless. The
Exhibition and conference centre Manchester Central has improved its free Wi-Fi offerings by upgrading to a one-gigabit service. This is the second major upgrade this year, as the conference centre expanded its Wi-Fi capabilities in January to cover 100 per cent of the 21,000-square-metre space. At the time, Manchester Central claimed it was the first
Measuring the difference between consumer spending habits at the turn of the millennium and consumer spending habits in the present day reveals some interesting trends. According to the Office for National Statistics, clothing and footwear items have dropped in price but consumer spending on these products has significantly increased; the same trend can be seen
ICP is one of the most important key drivers to standardize and facilitate global Wi-Fi roaming. There are many benefits of ICP that encouraged True to participate. Firstly, the program will enable participants to not only assess the level of Wi-Fi service capability, but also allow them to benchmark themselves with other global players. Secondly,
As a means to alleviating the limitations of mobile data, hotspots are nothing new. For many years now, people have been able to access a Wi-Fi connection in most bars, restaurants and hotels. While hotspots have not always been a benchmark of high-speed access, they have always performed dutifully at filling the holes that the first three
