Boingo Wireless – expanding in the UK

by Jonathan Jensen on 19th July 2010

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Last week I caught up with Christian Gunning from Boingo. Having seen that Boingo will be the sole public WiFi provider at Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports in the UK, I was keen to understand Boingo’s plans for the UK.

Boingo provides access to approximately 132,000 WiFi hotspots across 171 networks in 103 countries. Boingo offers a range of tariff options in both US$ and £, including hour and day airport passes – but the tariff that caught my eye was Boingo Mobile’s £3.95 per month for unlimited smartphone access worldwide. You can’t use your laptop on this tariff but for iPhone, iPad or other handset access it’s looks great value. Also in the handset space, the US iPhone and iPad App Store has 1 hour access available for $1.99, for users that don’t want to commit to a monthly account. This is coming to the UK App Store shortly.

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Five minutes with giffgaff founder Gav Thompson

by Vikki Chowney on 29th June 2010

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giffgaff is a recent arrival in the UK – a ‘virtual’ mobile network operator using O2’s network that rewards its customers for helping to run the service (we covered the launch back in November) – so we were keen to find out from the man behind it all how it’s all been going since then…

Inspired by The Times’ ‘two emails’ interview segment, we racked our brains for what people would really want to know from Gav Thompson, giffgaff’s founder (and head of brand strategy at O2 we should add) about its creation – then asked him.

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James Whatley: TV star & Roaming Guru

by Ben Smith 25th June 2010
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Hey! What’s that? It’s only James Freakin’ Whatley on my telebox!
James has been chatting to the BBC about roaming costs (which guest contributor Ilicco Elia also covered recently) and the smart ways you can avoid (or at least reduce) them… It’s going to be a hot topic as World Cup fans return home over the [...]

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Want to know where the only iPhone 4s on 3UK are?

by Ben Smith 25th June 2010
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There was the predictable controlled chaos around the Apple Store on Regent Street. Queues snaked around the store, along the street and around the corner. At 6pm the line still contained many hundred of people – some estimates placing it at 1000.
Bizarrely though, with the huge rush to purchase the device, inside the store was [...]

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Nokia still accidentally telling people N-Series dropping Symbian [Told You So]

by Ben Smith 23rd June 2010

Nokia have been at it again, only this time they blabbed to CNET Australia…
As we reported back in November, it does look like they will be dropping Symbian from N-Series

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Why consumers are still confused about roaming costs… [Guest Post]

by Guest Contributor 21st June 2010

We laugh at the stories – the huge roaming bills for the unwary, the unwitting and occasionally the clueless, but is this fair? Is it actually possible for consumers to easily understand what data usage will cost them overseas?
I was looking at the data tariffs each of the operators are charging (especially around roaming data) [...]

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Success of UK mobile market threatened by Post Office [Archive]

by Ben Smith 18th June 2010
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Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose… It seems the UK government’s glacial pace in regulating the use of the airwaves isn’t just a recent phenomenon.

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Demola Innovation Experience: Nokia Image Space Mobile Browser [Video] [Updated]

by Ben Smith 18th June 2010
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In the second of the series of collaborations with The Really Mobile Project, Rafe Blandford of All About Symbian speaks to Severi Uusitalo from Nokia’s Research Centre about the Image Space Mobile Browser concept.
Image Space has been in development for some time, although the mobile browsing element demonstrated at the Demola event is new.

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