Skypephone S2 now available
August 19, 2008
The Skypephone S2 is now available for purchase from the 3 Store. It’s sleeker, shinier and all round better with a bigger screen and higher resolution camera. It also has the all important modem drivers built in to turn the Skypephone into a 3G broadband modem for your laptop.
Pricing is £69.99 on PAYG or free on a contract and a minimum spend of £10 a month gets you access to Skype for free.
For all those mourning the loss of SMS Twitter messages you’ll be pleased to know you get up to 10,000 free Skype chats and using a service such as twitterforskype or Twitt’d will hook you back up to Twitter. The Skype chats and any Skype calls you make are free.
I’m still waiting for the new Skypephone to arrive, but if you’ve already got one let us know what you think of it compared to the original.
Will the Skype dance come to a club near you?
July 29, 2008
Most people know how to type an emoticon without even thinking about it. They’ve become so ingrained in our lives from IM to email and even on mobile SMS text messages that :-) is pretty much universally understood.
In recent times :-) automatically displays as
(can any one still remember the early days when they didn’t?) and some emoticons are even animated such as
That’s about as much thought as I’d normally give emoticons until I saw on the Skype Journal that some guy has actually gone so far as learning the Skype Dance. Skype Dance is just one of the emoticons for available for use in Skype chat but this guy would like to see people doing the “Skype Dance” in clubs. If you’re out clubbing at the weekend keep an eye out for people doing the Skype Dance
Is someone eavesdropping on your Skype calls?
July 25, 2008
Just how secure is a Skype call? It’s often thought that a phone call is pretty secure and an encrypted IP phone call almost impossible to listen in on. Not any longer though, the Austrian government have revealed that it is “not a problem” for them to listen in on Skype calls.
Skype is proprietary software so no one really knows how it works, there is speculation that there might be a backdoor built into Skype to allow legal authorities to eavesdrop on calls. If that’s not the case then it appears Skype may have a flaw in the set up of calls enabling the call security to be compromised. AES encryption that Skype uses is secure, but not if the keys exchanged when a call is set up can be captured.
It’s long been known that GCHQ can listen in to land line or mobile phone calls and they can also read your emails. Does it really matter if they can eavesdrop on your Skype calls as well?
If the government really want to listen in on my mindless wittering on phone calls then they’re welcome - all the time Skype is free I’ll carry on using it. After all the alternative is to use mobile or land line phones and they can listen in to them anyway.
The big question of course is who else is listening in on calls, if governments and Skype themselves can intercept conversations then how long before someone less desirable gains access and starts monitoring calls?
Skype reports 338 million users
July 17, 2008
JD might have singled out PayPal for special mention, but Skype also had a stellar Q2 of 2008, reporting 51% year-on-year growth and an incredible 338 million users worldwide. Skype revenues were $136 million for the quarter - annualised, that’s over $½billion.
JD called it “a killer communications application”, and mentioned that 25% of Skype calls are now video. There were 14.8 billion minutes of free Skype to Skype calls during the quarter, and 1.8 billion revenue-generating SkypeOut minutes. They might have some crazy ideas, like ad-funded free landline calls, and they’re certainly in need of better monetisation of that enormous user base, but I don’t think anyone can call a $500 million a year a mistake anymore.
Skype introducing ad-funded calls to businesses?
July 16, 2008
I received a survey invite from Skype this afternoon. It began with the intriguing suggestion that Skype might offer free calls to businesses in your own country. Would this make me use my landline less? You betcha, I answered, assuming this was some kind of 0800 number deal where the businesses themselves would pay for promotion via Skype.
Of course, any sensible business will publicise their Skype name and that their customers can make Skype-to-Skype calls for free. But the new scheme being proposed is like their current SkypeOut service: you can use it to call ordinary landlines, except in this instance, you wouldn’t need to buy credit first. Sounds good?
How about if you got adverts before you could make the call? I cannot imagine a scenario where I would listen to 30 seconds of adverts just to be allowed to make a free national telephone call. I’m not even convinced I would put up with 5 seconds. What do you think - is this a service you’d go for if Skype decide to offer it?
UAE blocks Stumbleupon
July 6, 2008
Just a month after United Arab Emirates Internet provider du blocked Skype calls the only other ISP in the UAE, Etisalat appears to have blocked Stumbleupon.
I can remember when ISPs such as AOL and Compuserve attempted to control what content their users could access and both failed eventually allowing users full Internet Access. The UAE are one of the few places that still control what sites and content users can access.
Although Du have blocked Skype and Etisalat have blocked Stumbleupon it appears neither have blocked both applications.
Skype gets ex Motorola exec as new COO
July 1, 2008
Skype have just announced the appointment of Scott Durchslag as Chief Operating Officer reporting directly to Josh Silverman. Durchslag left Motorola as their Corporate Vice-President of Global Product & Experience Invention and previously Motorola’s General Manager of South Asia.
In his press statement Duschslag tells how he believes in Skype having used it from the start but then goes on to tell how Skype can save the world by “enabling smaller businesses to grow without the unnecessary fuel consumption, costs and carbon pollution generated by needless travel”. A little overstated perhaps, but it can’t be denied that Skype is a cost effective convenient means of communication and he says it’s a “privilege to join the Skype team and help to build a great company”.
Kijiji one, PayPal ten, but Skype nowhere?
June 26, 2008
Last week at Live, eBay’s classified ads site Kijiji celebrated their first birthday by giving away bags of popcorn on the exhibition floor. The site now has four million users in north America, and General Manager Janet Bannister promised, “we listen intently to our community and are currently working on several innovative features and customer-focused improvements that will enhance the Kijiji experience.”
Kijiji has popular classifieds categories such as For Sale, Housing, Cars & Vehicles, Jobs, Pets, Services and Personals. In addition to the U.S., Kijiji has online communities in Canada, Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan.
Meanwhile, PayPal are celebrating their tenth anniversary with a special microsite detailing the history of the company; the video interviews are particularly worth a look, especially to see JD looking relaxed.
However, rather quieter of late has been eBay partner Skype: they were not in evidence at all at Live, dispite plenty of empty floor space in the exhibition hall which could have easily accomodated them. I heard a rumour that this was due to “an internal issue”, but no more details than that: one has to wonder if Skype CEO Josh Silverman’s insistance that the relationship between Skype and eBay is as strong as ever is something akin to Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford’s Times ad to say they weren’t getting divorced.
Skype debuts 4.0 beta
June 18, 2008
Oh dear! Everyone is raving about the new Skype V4.0 Beta but I appear to be the only one that doesn’t like it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the resizable video in HD, I love the multiple seperate chats all handled within the same screen, I love the orange dots to show who has updated a chat message. For those that want to undock chats into seperate windows there’s a not-very-obvious button in the top right to do so.
The thing I really hate about Skype V4.0 though, is the size of the screen. I used to run Skype at the side of my other application windows. If I was waiting for one particular person to come online I could keep half an eye on Skype. Not any more though, Skype 4 V.0’s window is just too large - why they haven’t made it so that you can minimise the right hand side when you have no open chats/calls is bizarrre.
To be fair though this is the first public beta and Skype have already committed to listen to feedback over the next few months. So please guys - make the window resizable. I love the functionality of Skype - just hate the lack of functionality of the new user interface.
There’s also some more good news, the new install fixed the broken state of the Skype Firefox add on from yesterday!
Firefox 3.0 released
June 18, 2008
Firefox 3.0 has been officially released by Mozilla and is available for download today. Mike Shaver, Director of Ecosystem Development at Mozilla was at eBay DevCon today and in his keynote speech announced that the download had become available just 3 hours previously.
Mike explained how Mozilla are passionate about Firefox as a web standards based product. He explained how when IE6 was released there was no real competition and developers produced software which worked with Microsoft technology exclusively. With Firefox now having 20% of the browser share developers can once again write code for web standards.
You can download Firefox 3.0 today, on what’s been designated as “Download Day” and be part of a world record attempt. Firefox are hoping to set a Guiness world record for the most downloads of a program in 24 hours. At the time of writing they’ve had over 2.6million downloads already.
The one complaint I have so far is Firefox 3.0 is incompatible with most of my add-ons including the Skype extension for Firefox, hopefully the developers will catch up soon.
UAE blocks Skype calls
June 2, 2008
A United Arab Emirates Internet provider, du, has blocked access to cheap phone calls using Skype.
du already block access to sites with pornography, alcohol, gambling, hatred, child abuse or terrorism content by filtering Internet traffic through a proxy server. Skype and PC to phone and phone to PC communications are also blocked.
du describe themselves as the “new integrated telecommunications service provider with a fresh approach”. Their FAQ on Skype usage simply states “As a licensed telecom operator, du conforms to the guidelines set by the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA).”
At the same time as blocking Skype, du have introduced a “Freetime” offer with one fils (a UK penny is worth about 7 fils) of free credit for every second of every international call you make saying “Don’t miss anything happening back home“.
I’d be pretty upset if Skype was blocked in the UK - how about you?
An American road tests the Skypephone
April 23, 2008
Billy Purser of ChannelAdvisor was absolutely amazed at my 3 Skypephone when I showed it to him at the Catalyst US conference. It appears that there is nothing like it in the US, and in fact my distinct impression is that Skype usage is not nearly as prevalent on the other side of the Atlantic as it is in Europe.
Knowing he was due to visit London, I promised to buy him a Skypephone to use at Catalyst UK this week. Billy loved the idea of being able to keep in touch with his family, and more importantly for his kids to be able to phone him whenever they liked.
He explained that Christian (aged 9) and Sully (aged 6) had really missed their mom when she visited the EU. While she was in London and Italy there was no way for them to easily keep in touch. For this trip Billy explained to Christian and Sully, before he left, that they’d be able to call him on Skype whenever they liked.
His kids have been really excited and have called Billy two or three times every day, as they’ve been off school. Having them gathered around the home PC on speaker phone has enabled the whole family to chat at the same time. The best part of all, is that calls to Billy didn’t have to be pre-arranged and of course were free.
With calls for eBay to sell Skype, investors would do well to look at Skype outside the US. 209 million users can’t all be wrong, Skype is making good money, and the applications and potential for growth is immense. Tools like the Skypephone whilst great for keeping in touch with family are even more powerful when used for business, such as for buyers to contact sellers instantly from eBay listings or websites.
Skype is continually innovating and generating new tools and interfaces to communicate, the Skypephone is just one of them. eBay would be mad to dispose of the fastest growing communications company in the world, it’s an asset they could never replace.
Skype offer unlimited calling in UK, Europe
April 21, 2008
Skype have just launched three new packages which offer unlimited calling to landlines for UK and European customers.
Unlimited Country @ £2.24 per month offers unlimited calls to landlines in one of the following countries: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; United Kingdom.
Unlimited Europe @ £3.39 per month offers unlimited calls to landlines in all of the above countries.
Unlimited World @ £7.99 per month offers unlimited calls to landlines in the following countries, plus calls to mobiles as indicated: Australia; Austria; Belgium; Canada (incl. mobiles); China (incl. mobiles); Chile; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; France; Germany; Greece; Guam; Hong Kong (incl. mobiles); Hungary; Ireland; Italy; Japan; Korea, Republic of; Luxembourg; Malaysia; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Puerto Rico; Singapore (incl. mobiles); Spain; Sweden; Switzerland; Taiwan; United Kingdom; USA (incl. mobiles).
All packages offer free voicemail, an online number (or three if you get Unlimited World) which can be called from landlines as if it were a normal number, and no restrictions on the time of the call. All packages are subject to Skype’s fair use policy of up to 10,000 calling minutes per month. UK landlines must begin 01 or 02. Prices shown are valid at the time of writing and include UK VAT @ 17.5%.
This is an absolutely fantastic deal from Skype, particularly if you call abroad a lot. Even better, if you sign up for a 3 month or 12 month package before the 1st June, there’s 33% off.
Google and Skype partnership on the cards?
April 2, 2008

According to TechCrunch, a new Google partnership with - or even outright acquisition of - Skype may be announced shortly. There doesn’t seem to be much substance behind the rumour; news.com called it Valley gossip at its finest.
Nevertheless, I think this would make sense. eBay spent a lot of money to get Skype, they took a lot of flack for doing so, and then they left their shiny new toy sitting in its box. For months, eBay sellers were not allowed to add Skype buttons to their listings; it seems eBay’s fears that we might use Skype to cut them out of the selling process took precedence over any desire to make the most of their new acquisition. And even now, with ?? worldwide users and profits of $400m in 2007, it feels like Skype is growing dispite eBay, rather than because of it.
A Skype sold to Google could be integrated with just about every aspect of Google’s services. Imagine Skype click-to-call buttons on every company in a page of Google search results. Imagine Skype buttons for local services on Google Maps. Imagine shared Google Documents which could be automatically imported into a Skype whiteboard and worked on simultaneously across Skype’s network. The possibilities are endless, and more than anything, they’re possibilities that make sense for Skype themselves.
Of course, given the amount of April Fools’ nonsense that TechCrunch posted yesterday, it’s always possible that this is just not true, but its appearance on Seeking Alpha under an April 2nd dateline makes me think that the rumours do at least exist. Mashable had the same rumour as far back as last November, and Silicon Alley Insider and ZDnet seem to think there’s something in it.
Skype pondering emergency call support?
February 14, 2008
If you’re a Skype user, you probably already know this, or you should, because it’s all over their website: Skype cannot be used to make emergency calls. But a survey from Skype this week suggests this may be about to change. Amongst a (very long) series of questions about Skype use versus landline and mobile, were these two intriguing questions:
If Skype introduced a service which would allow you to use Skype to place emergency calls to UK 999 or EU 112, but which would also require all users to verify their address or location every time they log in to use Skype, how convenient would you personally consider such a service?
Last year, Ofcom, the telecommunications watchdog, will require VoIP operators to provide access to the emergency services’ number from September 2008. Ofcom’s research amongst VoIP telephony users found that as many as 78% either thought an emergency call was possible, or did not know whether or not this was the case.
Clearly, this situation needs resolution, though being required to verify my address or location every time I log into Skype is just a pain. To be perfectly honest, I am annoyed at having the convenience of my Skype account compromised by those who don’t bother to inform themselves about what the service is really for.
And do I really want to tell Skype every time I go away for the weekend? That seems to have enormous privacy issues, but apparently the alternative is just not logging into Skype at all when I’m away. As VoIP providers who only offer calls within their own users are exempt from these regulations, it would be nice to have this as an option on my Skype account: jump through the verification hoops when I’m at home, where I normally am, and turn off Skype In and Skype Out when I’m out with my Skypephone. Because then, I have mobile access to 999 anyway.
And you thought eBay support was bad
January 10, 2008
You know how frustrating it is, you send support an email and get a reply with a cut and paste answer vaguely related to your problem but not actually answering your specific issue. It’s something that’s not just an eBay problem (but they’re the main culprits as they’re the ones most of us deal with on a daily basis).
Well courtesy of ZD Net, Skype customer support have been taking lessons on how to solve every problem bar the one you actually asked them about. It’s a three page epic on “How to turn voice mail off”, and involves the poor user even uninstalling and reinstalling Skype but never actually getting their concern addressed.
Normally I wouldn’t have blogged such a piece bar the rather ingenious way their final email removed all references to the actual problem and involves the customer service rep doing some research, which made me chuckle.
“For Skype to be usable for us we really need a solution or workaround for the bug listed in https://developer.skype.com/jira/browse/SCW-449” is a stroke of genius as they don’t actually state what their problem is. I think I’ll adopt similar tactics next time I need to email eBay support ![]()
Skype for the Sony PSP
January 3, 2008
Skype is ready for it’s next new market - the gaming community. A post on Sony’s Consumer Electronics Show 2008 website says “Call friends, talk trash to fellow gamers or catch up with acquaintances via Skype for PSP system”.
This isn’t a new revelation, as far back as February last year references to Skype were discovered in the PSP firmware. With the posting on the Sony website Skype on the PSP could be just a few days from being officially launched.
Skype in the last year have started spreading their wings and leaving the desktop application behind. There are a myriad home phone solutions available, they’ve ported onto the MySpace IM client, the 3 Skypephone launched and even eBay eventually allowed Skype on eBay listings in all categories. Jumping into the world of gaming is a new direction but one that is bound to catch on.
As soon as PSP owners realise that they can either pay for their mobile phone or call their mates for free via the PSP, a new wave of users will be signing up to Skype.
Won’t you Skype my sleigh tonight?
December 21, 2007
Prize for the cutest ever use of Skype goes to Santa 1to1 who, for a mere £7.20, will phone your child - or better still, you can have a webcam call for £12. “Based on the information you provide in your online booking, Santa will talk about your child’s pets, hobbies, Christmas Wish list and anything else you would like him to mention.” You can pick a time and day for your call, but as there are only three days left before Santa has to go out on his rounds, you need to get a move on!
I love this idea: it’s magical and memorable, and a wonderful use of Skype.
Via Skype Journal.
TameBay triumph in Skypephone comp
December 17, 2007
Two TameBay readers have won Skypephones in the 3mobilebuzz competition winning five Skypephones between them.
Rosie from hopecouture decided to go with eBay Matchups and bagged herself two shiny Skypephones comparing the Skypephone with the iPhone, ASQ, Skype on a PC and expensive mobile phone calls.
Meanwhile Dave went the whole hog and was so keen to win he demonstrated his commitment by pulverising his old phone with a mallet. Upon hearing the news he’s about to receive no fewer than three Skypephones he told me “Both me and my wife need new phones, we can’t wait to get them, I know two people on Skype already”.
Just in case you missed it the first time around here’s Dave and his video entry one more time
3mobilebuzzcomp1
25 million MySpace users for Skype
December 12, 2007
In October Skype hit the milestone of 10 million simultaneous users online, now they’re set to smash that target with as 25 million MySpace Instant Messenger users gain Skype capability.
MySpace’s 110 million users will be able to access Skype through MySpace’s IM client, already more than half a million MySpace users have checked out the beta version of MySpaceIM with Skype. To encourage adoption of Skype MySpace users are being offered a free ten minute call to a phone in their own country.
MySpace users don’t have to download any additional Skype software. And they can now link their MySpace profiles, photos or avatars to their Skype names. Now when will they do the same for Facebook? ![]()
Win a free 3 Skypephone
December 7, 2007
We’ve told you how great the Skypephone is and if you’ve not got one you should have. Now there’s a chance to get one for free: The guys over at 3mobilebuzz are running a little competition - the winner gets three 3 Skypephones, second place gets two and third place gets one.
All you need to do is explain why you want a Skypehone – and it can be done however you want as long as it can be linked to. For example, it could be a blog post, forum thread or simple webpage, a picture or a set on Flickr (3mobilebuzz tried Flickr), a link to a YouTube video (Shouldn’t be hard to beat 3mobilebuzz’s attempts) or even a Facebook group where 100 friends sign up and support the quest for a 3 Skypephone. The more creative the better.
The only rules are: the content needs to be original, tag all your videos 3mobilebuzzcomp1!, and the URL of the site which brought the competition to your attention (that’ll be http://www.tamebay.com) needs to be included on the entry email. The deadline for submissions is midday on Monday 17th December.
Entries must be sent to the hallowed keeper of prizes, enforcer of rules and judge of all, Jack@3mobilebuzz.com. You’ve got until the 17th December to get your entries in.
T-Mobile plays catch up with the Skypephone
December 5, 2007
T-Mobile have released their latest Internet offering for Pay As You Go customers. A ‘5 Day Pass’ costing £2.50 gets users unlimited web surfing on their handsets.
Richard Warmsley from T-Mobile said: “The web’n'walk 5 Day Pass puts the whole internet into your pocket. It’s perfect for people who simply want to dip in and out of the internet on their phone, with the 5 Day Pass you get unlimited web browsing on the internet for a great price and without any hidden costs.”
On first glance it sounds like a great offer, Internet access on your mobile for just 50p per day… but it just doesn’t compare with the Skypephone from 3. With the Skypephone you can buy Internet access by the day for 50p, £2.50 gets you a whole week (that’s seven days, not five), or for a fiver you can access the Internet for an entire month (30 days).
On top of the free Internet access with the Skypephone of course you have Skype - 4,000 free Skype minutes and 10,000 free Skype chat messages. Then of course I can access eBay on my 3 Skypephone for free without even buying an Internet add on. If T-Mobile are going to tempt me to switch from 3 they’ve got a lot of catching up to do yet!
Skype and Best Offer win a sale
November 29, 2007
For the first time today a potential buyer Skyped me from an eBay listing. They had some additional questions to ask that weren’t covered in the auction description and simply clicked the Skype call button on the listing.
I wasn’t expecting the call and it had slipped my mind that any and every potential buyer could contact me. That however is the whole point of having Skype on my listings. Buyers can easily communicate as and when they want to. This particular buyer could have simply sent a question by email but rather than a long drawn out email exchange the deal was tied up in two minutes on Skype.
The good news is that after asking about two particular products the buyer finished the conversation telling me to stand by for an order and sure enough he placed a Best Offer. Even better because I now have auto-accept on my Best Offers I didn’t even have to click a button for the sale to be completed and the buyer to pay.
I do like the new features such as Skype and Best Offer enhancements that eBay have introduced over the last year. Already I’m finding it hard to remember what it was like trading without them.
Skype cancel your 0207 SkypeIn numbers
November 21, 2007
Skype users who have paid for London based 0207 SkypeIn numbers have been given a months notice that their phone numbers will be terminated. Users are faced with choosing a new number from an 0208 or 0203 range as Skype hands back the 0207 numbers to their supplier.
Users on the Skype forums complain that a month’s notice (the date numbers will be terminated is the 20th December) is simply not good enough. Many have business literature printed with their exisiting SkypeIn number and of course every previous customer will still have their old SkypeIn number.
Anyone who’s inherited a phone number will know it takes years for calls to the old user to cease and that’s part of the attraction of a SkypeIn number. When you move it stays the same, or was supposed to. The big question of course is will people trust Skype with their business again? Cheap calls are great, but are they worth the price of losing your telephone number with practically no notice?
Skype appears to have simply rented the numbers that they then sold for SkypeIn but rental agreements can and do end. The affected numbers appear to be allocated to Gamma Telecom, but there may be a third party in the chain between them and Skype.
Affected users are being called by Skype with the offer of a new SkypeIn number and voicemail free for a year. Voicemail is always free with a SkypeIn number. There’s also a post on the Skype Blog which in typical Skype fashion thanks all of their disgruntled customers for their kindness.
How the Skypephone pays for itself
November 21, 2007
It’s been almost a month since I got my Skypephone and it’s been working perfectly. That being the case I thought it was high time I read the manual, and enclosed in the box was a CD with software to connect the phone to my computer. Now I know what you’re thinking… surely I should have read the manual way before now, but who needs one for a device which is so intuitive anyway?
Well I couldn’t resist sticking the CD into my drive and up popped the software for possibly the biggest benefit of the Skypephone yet. It can be used as a modem for my laptop! Install the software, connect the phone via USB and you get a 115k connection to the Internet, from anywhere in the country that you can get a 3G mobile phone signal.
That to me will save the cost of the Skypephone many times over. I’ve lost count of the number of hotels I’ve stayed in where Internet access was promised, just to find it either to be extortionately priced or non-existent. A case in point is the Copthorne Hotel in Manchester, where Sue and I stayed for the recent eBay University and TameBay birthday party. £20 per 24 hours for Wi-Fi Internet access (but only in the bar area!). So that was a grand total of £80 for two days Internet usage as we both had laptops and needed to check email. I swear I’ll never stay in another Copthorne again!
Well there’ll be no more silly Internet charges for me from now on, with 3 you have an option to pay £1 per megabyte of data with no contract, or even on Pay As You Go you can purchase Internet Add Ons for your Skypephone. The Internet Add On prices are so low as to be almost unbelievable, £5.00 for a month, £2.50 for a week, or just £0.50 per day. Don’t forget that gets you 4,000 free Skype minutes from your Skypephone too.
Yes that’s right, buy a PAYG Skypephone for £49.99, add a £10 top up for 12p/min calls and 12p/text, and use just 50p of your top up on the days you want to use the Internet from your laptop or direct on the Skypephone.
This has to be one of the most cost effective methods available for accessing the Internet when you’re mobile. 50p per day from almost anywhere in the country, like the comfort of my hotel bedroom compared to £20 for Wi-Fi access from a noisy crowded bar in the Copthorne Hotel. There really is no contest and the Skypephone wins hands down.
The one disappointment is that during the installation the software wasn’t XP approved, that might deter some users from installing it. Apart from that it’s a fantastic, extremely cost effective way to access the Internet from a laptop when you’re on the move.





