Comments on: SMS Text News is going to a desert island next month

By: Ewan

Ewan — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:28:04 +0000

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…

By: Constantine

Constantine — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 02:21:35 +0000

enjoy your holiday, you need it

By: Ewan @ MIR

Ewan @ MIR — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:28:04 +0000

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…

By: constantine

constantine — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:21:35 +0000

enjoy your holiday, you need it

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:28:04 +0000

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…

By: constantine

constantine — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:21:35 +0000

enjoy your holiday, you need it

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:48:04 +0000

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

By: DanLane

DanLane — Thu, 29 May 2008 16:44:34 +0000

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!

By: Mike42

Mike42 — Thu, 29 May 2008 07:30:34 +0000

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

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:08:04 +0000

Is there a subsidised handset?

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:45:09 +0000

Depends. Are you expecting triplets?

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:14:14 +0000

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

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:13:49 +0000

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 23:01:04 +0000

Is that 3G?

By: Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Wed, 28 May 2008 22:55:46 +0000

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

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:46:05 +0000

Tell me more?

By: jonmul

jonmul — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:19:56 +0000

I can recomend a good mobile data package…