My Office
Welcome to my office. It’s the lounge bar of the Metropole on Edgware Road. I come here to escape builders, 2-year-old son, and domestic mayhem. Quite frankly, some days it’s the only way I can get anything done at all.
The hotel wifi costs £40 a month, and that’s on top of all the coffees, pots of green tea, and occasional lunches that I need to keep me going. So I don’t pay it .
Instead, I have a mobile USB dongle from 3. It costs me £10 a month for a gig of transfer. The real limitation is that it drains the battery on my laptop. So I just use it for quick forays onto the net. The connection here isn’t quite as stable as a good WiFi signal, but it will do.
And now I see that Mobile Broadband is coming to Russia (Option who make dongles for Vodafone are to provide them to Russian telecom VimpleCom ). Essentially this means that the internet can now reach into the furthest corners of the earth - even where traditional phone lines are far and few between.
