Air travel is never fun, but it’s certainly gotten a little easier with the new wireless broadband cards available from Verizon and Cingular. Last night I pulled into a Best Western at San Jose Airport. I don’t even know if the place had Internet. I didn’t care. I just powered up the old all-you-can-eat Verizon card, and I was live on the net.
This morning I jumped on the plane at San Jose, napped for an hour, and then chowed through a pile of email. As we deplaned, I snapped the Verizon card in, threw my PC back in my pack, and let it synch email. I had to walk all over O’Hare as they changed my departure gate, but no problemo. The VPN link to my office stayed up, and kept on doing it’s thing.
Over the last week I’ve sat in the backseat of a car, with a VPN connection, email and a Gizmo call up. At the other end, you would never have known.
Bring Your Own Broadband — it’s the new road warriors tool.
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
