{"id":54,"date":"2007-10-13T13:40:25","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T17:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/10\/13\/in-the-hotspots\/"},"modified":"2007-10-13T13:40:25","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T17:40:25","slug":"in-the-hotspots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/2007\/10\/13\/in-the-hotspots\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Hotspots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was traveling and attending <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zendcon.com\/\">ZendCon<\/a> earlier this week, I realized that it would be mighty handy to have a <a href=\"http:\/\/hotspot.t-mobile.com\/\">T-Mobile Hotspot<\/a> account. There was a hotspot at the hotel that I ended up charging to my room (the conference wireless was incredibly spotty and I needed to get on the VPN, so my company paid for it), and there were hotspots in various other places we wandered through, like the San Francisco airport.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, I&#8217;d seen a flyer advertising an upgrade to my phone data plan that included unlimited wifi access for an additional $10\/month (my unlimited data plan is $20\/month). I decided to look it up while at the hotel, and, much to my surprise, I discovered that <b>T-Mobile is now offering combined unlimited GRPS\/EDGE data and Wifi access at any of their hotspots for just $20\/month<\/b> (what I was already paying).<\/p>\n<p>My current theory is that this is a (pretty smart) stopgap to compete with the 3G networks while they build out one of their own (having somewhat recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theunwired.net\/?itemid=3390\">acquired airspace for it<\/a>). I think it&#8217;ll work for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was traveling and attending ZendCon earlier this week, I realized that it would be mighty handy to have a T-Mobile Hotspot account. There was a hotspot at the hotel that I ended up charging to my room (the conference wireless was incredibly spotty and I needed to get on the VPN, so my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deals","category-smartphone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.n1zyy.com\/andrew\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}