Video from Gemalto about Wi-Fi roaming
Wednesday, February 16th, 2011 Karen Ambrose Hickey, EditorOur partner, Gemalto, had a great blog today about getting relief from roaming charges using “smart Wi-Fi.” See the video by Bertrand Leroux, their Roaming guy, commenting on our announcement and “smart Wi-Fi”:
More from their blog post:
“Lots of smartphones are already smart enough to jump off the network and onto WiFi when you go home. This is smart in the same way that GSM roaming is smart: you use another infrastructure for a specific need. While this works well for places you regularly frequent, like your home, or a Starbucks, it doesn’t work as seamlessly when you show up in a foreign location. Is it really worth going through the hassle of figuring out the local WiFi codes? Do you just hope that your data plan isn’t super expensive? Or do you just turn off data to avoid any nasty surprises? Any way you look at it, there are missed opportunities.” Tags: 3G network, roaming, wi-fi access
