On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 07:28:31 PM [email protected] wrote:
> Just a few objections: I have bought pre-paid cards in > both the UAE and in Singapore the times I have been > there, and I did not have to part with any personal > information, let alone fingerprints. Is this a brand new > occurrence? I don't know. When were you there :-)? > Regarding the best solution when abroad: Is it not both > faster and cheaper to simply hook up with some local > public (or private, depending on your opinions on > piggybacking) access point? Of course, availability > varies depending on country,... Yes, don't underestimate this. Even when there is free wi-fi around a building or city, never expect it to be of reasonable quality for a long period of time. Finding a Starbucks or some such is probably the best ting you can do. > but in most larger cities > in developed nations you are hard pressed not to find > access points virtually everywhere. > Some cities even > maintain a city-wide free no-login WLAN service. You'd be surprised to find out just how rife "not free" wi- fi is in "developed" countries, especially the ones you'd expect to have free access everywhere. In some places you're lucky. In others you aren't. I've just learned never to assume good, free (or cheap) wi-fi is synonymous with "developed" countries :-). But that's just me. But this is going off-topic. Mark.
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