[kictanet] My Evening in Jail (O.K, next to Jail)

Wed Mar 7 19:32:27 EAT 2007

Brian,

Integrating below developments from news just received (courtesy of  news at canarie.ca), your suggestion is not a dream but the way to go >>>> 

/Alex

----forward---- 

http://gigaom.com/2007/03/06/bt-to-invest-in-fon/

BT to Invest in FON?

FON, the Spanish share-your-Wi-Fi services company, is close to announcing a
new round of funding that could total to as much as 10 million Euros (shade
over $13 million.)

While some of its existing investors - Index Ventures, Skype and Google -
that British Telecom is going to invest in the wireless router company.

FON is the latest start-up by Spanish telecom entrepreneur, Martin
Varsavsky, who has made a name for being a thorn in the side of incumbents.
When I visited BT last summer while reporting a story for Business 2.0, the
senior management of the British incumbent carrier was pretty bullish on the
whole notion of dual-mode phones and municipal wireless.

Dual-mode phones are phone that have Wi-Fi and cellular capabilities in one
single handset, and in an ideal world there is a seamless handoff between
the two networks once you are in range of a Wi-Fi network

While this does seem like a distant dream, eventually it will happen. Nokia,
for instance, is pretty confident that most of its mobile phones in the near
future will have Wi-Fi capabilities built into them. BT can offer voice (and
other services) over Wi-Fi when in range of a FON node, and when out of
range it can switch to the Vodafone network for cellular access.

T-Mobile USA is trying something similar up in the U.S. Northwest, though it
is through a customer\'s own Wi-Fi network. Free.fr of France has also been
playing with a similar idea and has bundled FON-like software in its
residential gateways.

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",1] );  //-->are coming back with more cash, the word from telecom circles in Europe is
that British Telecom is going to invest in the wireless router company.

FON is the latest start-up by Spanish telecom entrepreneur, Martin
Varsavsky, who has made a name for being a thorn in the side of incumbents.
When I visited BT last summer while reporting a story for Business 2.0, the
senior management of the British incumbent carrier was pretty bullish on the
whole notion of dual-mode phones and municipal wireless.

Dual-mode phones are phone that have Wi-Fi and cellular capabilities in one
single handset, and in an ideal world there is a seamless handoff between
the two networks once you are in range of a Wi-Fi network

While this does seem like a distant dream, eventually it will happen. Nokia,
for instance, is pretty confident that most of its mobile phones in the near
future will have Wi-Fi capabilities built into them. BT can offer voice (and
other services) over Wi-Fi when in range of a FON node, and when out of
range it can switch to the Vodafone network for cellular access.

T-Mobile USA is trying something similar up in the U.S. Northwest, though it
is through a customer's own Wi-Fi network. Free.fr of France has also been
playing with a similar idea and has bundled FON-like software in its
residential gateways.

--ends--

Brian Longwe <brian at isisweb.nl> wrote: 
On Mar 7, 2007, at 4:56 PM, John Walubengo wrote:

Here is the IT angle - isn't it time their website
www.kenyapolice.go.ke gave the Citizens the correct
position regarding Police Procedures for Civil/Criminal
offence? I mean I never knew a traffic offence could earn
you 1-night accomodation with General Ali's (the Police
Commissioner) guests. Further more, when are those so
called Tamper-proof Driving Licences going to hit the
market?

Hi John,

Thanks for sharing (in your v. pleasant style) your experience. Actually I think you are letting us off a bit easily by only suggesting procedures be on the Police website. I would go a bit further.

Every Mobile Police Unit and/or Traffic stop have a functional laptop with wireless access to various databases:
- IDs / Passports/ Work Permits / Visa
- Driving License
- Car Registration
- Criminal Records Database

That way by simply running a couple of simple queries they would immediately know whether you are worthy of being offered free accomodation.

Regards,

Mblayo

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