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Enjoying zero-click access with iPass Open Mobile Platform

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

For the holiday weekend, we drove down Interstate 5 to Los Angeles from the Bay Area. On the way back, I was finishing up a work project on my laptop (I was not driving), and wanted to email it off. I do not have a 3G card as I’m probably not profiled as needing one by my IT department. I remembered that when we stop at Subway for our take-away sandwiches in Buttonwillow, there’s a Starbucks next door. Yes, I know, I can get an iced latte, but there’s more.

I need to move fast. The holiday traffic is building. I am reminded of business travel and all those attempts at getting that ONE email out in-between flights when I can never get that day pass for Wi-Fi fast enough. Here’s what happened:

  • Run into Starbucks
  • Open laptop
  • Open Mobile is “detecting networks”
  • “Connecting now” (after finding the “best” connection for me)
  • “VPN Connecting”
  • Email syncing
  • DONE

A woman actually came over and asked me how I got connected so fast. I explained that my company used the iPass Mobile Network (ahem, we are iPass), so I have a quick, seamless logon to a lot of hot spots (over 140K+!). She asked if it was satellite. No, I said, but it was better – it was cheaper and fast, and not 3G.

With my iPass Open Mobile, I don’t have to worry about:

  • day passes and making sure to get them expensed,
  • “what’s my password and account name?? How do I remember across three accounts?!?”,
  • is it a safe Wi-Fi,
  • will I get a dropped connection before my 2MB email is sent

I open my laptop, and I’m securely connected, with “zero-clicks.” And I can rest easier, because my part of the project is passed on to the next person.

I’ll take that latte to go, please.

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