SMS Text News is going to a desert island next month

By on May 28, 2008 in News

Next month, starting June 16th, we’ll be bringing you SMS Text News live from a desert island in the middle of nowhere.

I’m going to be exploring the possibility of working remotely. I’ve emailed Iridium to see if they can lend us a satellite data system to enable us to produce the site. The hotel we’re using will have internet but I’d like to prove a point and detail just how easy it is to get connected literally anywhere.

If you’ve got any ideas for products and services we should look at for this feature, mail me!

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  • http://www.jonathanmulholland.com jonmul

    I can recomend a good mobile data package…

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Tell me more? ;-)

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    Try getting Vodafone's Firstbornchild roaming data add-on. They give you roaming data… you give them…

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Is that 3G?

  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith
  • http://www.smstextnews.com/author/Ben.Smith Ben Smith

    It depends how much you use… it has been known to cost several thousand g's

  • http://whatleydude.vox.com James Whatley

    Depends. Are you expecting triplets?

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Is there a subsidised handset?

  • Mike42

    Careful. I know quite a few parents who just might take them up on that deal…

  • http://invalid.name DanLane

    Over a decade ago I had a customer who was connecting to the internet through our dialup platform from a satphone from somewhere in the north sea. The only thing more shocking than the slow speed was the per minute cost. It was also a bit flakey so he called for help quite a bit (also at a horrendously expensive per minute rate)… unfortunately on the days when I wasn't in the support guys would always put him on hold for ages while they went away and tried to find out if we actually supported dialup via satphone *smacks forhead*

    And you thought Vodafone data rates screwed you!

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    Well it's looking good. I'm going to talk to Iridium shortly, Dan — and
    should hopefully hear back from Inmarsat soon.

  • http://intomobile.com constantine

    enjoy your holiday, you need it

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com smstextnews

    V good of you Stefan. I will be thinking of you when I am sipping cocktails
    and typing on my Blackberry.

    No, wait, there's no GPRS on the Island…

    …but the whole thing has blanket wifi coverage…

  • http://intomobile.com constantine

    enjoy your holiday, you need it

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan @ MIR

    V good of you Stefan. I will be thinking of you when I am sipping cocktails
    and typing on my Blackberry.

    No, wait, there's no GPRS on the Island…

    …but the whole thing has blanket wifi coverage…

  • http://lostupstairs.tumblr.com/ Constantine

    enjoy your holiday, you need it

  • http://www.mobileindustryreview.com Ewan

    V good of you Stefan. I will be thinking of you when I am sipping cocktails
    and typing on my Blackberry.

    No, wait, there's no GPRS on the Island…

    …but the whole thing has blanket wifi coverage…

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