Rose Cantine

Finally, the European Union has decided to put an end to the highway robbery that is roaming charges. By this summer, we can expect roaming charges to be reduced by 70%. This is very important news for Europeans who travel to Spain, southern France, Italy, Switzerland for the annual summer holidays and find themselves confronted [...]

Here’s the link to a PDF copy of the page:
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I am waiting for my N95 to come in and I will post a review as soon as I get to play with it. In the meantime, Om Malik has written a long post on the N95, Nokia’s latest multimedia phone with a 5-megapixel camera, Wi-Fi and GPS. Click here to read his review.
Although [...]

Om Malik’s post on US cellular phone service:
What brings on the rant today? How about the for past three days I have been unable to retrieve voicemails, or calls have dropped in mid-sentence, leading to a string of profanities and hence dirty looks from nice old ladies. Frankly we all suffer this ignominy on a [...]

The European Commission’s latest detailed report on the EU telecommunications market shows that there are more mobile phones than citizens in the EU. The fastest growing segment is broadband, but Commissioner Viviane Reding says a lot of work still needs to be done. She wants structural separation between network infrastructure and services, and an FCC-style [...]

Barablu is the latest of a string of startups offering free calling via Wi-Fi mobile phones. I’ve been using Gizmo Project on my Nokia N80i for a few months now and it works very well. But what’s new with Barablu’s offering is that it claims to be able to switch you to a GSM network [...]

I am trying to get some rest after our three-day conference in Dallas (March 4-6, 2007) where we got over 400 registrants (370 attendees).
We started on Sunday afternoon with a Public Broadband 101 seminar on success strategies, which attracted 155 people. I missed it because I was en route from San Francisco. But the [...]