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Irish Rugby tackles life without wires
Bitbuzz, Ireland's leading Wi-Fi network, today announced its continued support of the Irish Rugby team by providing the Irish squad with access to its national Wi-Fi network once again for the duration of the autumn internationals and the 6 nations championship.
Shane Deasy, Bitbuzz's managing director commented, "Bitbuzz are delighted to be able to provide this service to the Irish rugby team. Since the start of our partnership we have seen the demand for our service continue to grow as the players increasingly need to keep in contact with their family and friends during the international campaigns. With Bitbuzz the players can access the Internet at broadband speeds from a large number of hotels and other public venues throughout the country".
Mr. Padraig Power Director of Commercial & Marketing with the IRFU said "The players like the freedom of Wi-Fi, so we were looking for a service provider that could provide us with reliable and secure access to the Internet. Bitbuzz come highly recommended and the locations of their Wi-Fi hotspots suited our needs"
Bitbuzz celebrates its third year
Bitbuzz, Ireland's leading Independent and only Irish owned Wi-Fi network, has announced that it was celebrating three years trading."Wi-Fi is a relatively new technology but has become a vital way to access the Internet for people conducting business here in Ireland. We work in a very fast moving and competitive industry and we are delighted to be entering our fourth year in business." said Shane Deasy, Managing Director of Bitbuzz. "The usage of laptops in Ireland has soared as the working population becomes more mobile. Laptops are a hugely powerful business tool but they need to be connected to the Internet to deliver real benefits."
Bitbuzz started business in 2003 and has now entered a new stage of growth and will be announcing some strategic developments and new services in the forthcoming weeks. Deasy believes there are a number of reasons for Bitbuzz's extraordinary growth. "We have always adopted a culture of working with our location partners to promote their business to the 35,000 registered users of Bitbuzz. The flip side of the coin is that we have built a high quality network of over 100 premium hotspots where our customers can connect seamlessly to the Internet".
Deasy adds "The core of our success is a great team of dedicated colleagues supported by a very strong Board with a vast range of experience. Our people are the key ingredient to the great Bitbuzz story!"
Alex French, Bitbuzz's Operations Director commented "Wi-Fi has become acknowledged as an affordable, reliable service with exceptionally fast speeds and easy to use for the customer. Manufacturers of mobile phones, PDA’s and even gaming consoles are rapidly rolling out ever more Wi-Fi enabled devices to the market. The reason for this quite simply is that Wi-Fi works, and works very well!"
About Bitbuzz
Founded in 2003, Bitbuzz is Ireland's largest independent Wi-Fi network operator, providing High Speed Wireless Internet Access services to roaming partners, location partners and direct users. Bitbuzz is the only wholly-owned Irish telecoms company focused entirely on the Wi-Fi market.
BT win 'Best Service Provider' at the WBI awards 2006.
BT was named as Winner in the Best Service Provider category at the Wireless Broadband Innovation Awards 2006. The WBI Awards recognise leadership, innovation and excellence in wireless broadband.The category of Best Service Provider encompasses Mobile operators, Wireless ISPs and fixed telco's and cable operators with a wireless offering, with BT being judged most successful upon 5 main criteria:
* Quality of service and user experience
* Speed and scale of site acquisition and rollout
* Marketing, branding and customer acquisition
* Company growth
Winners were announced at the WBI Awards Dinner in London's prestigious Cafe Royal on the evening of 17 May 2006.
Piers Bearne, co-founder of the Awards comments, "We are delighted to have had such a diverse, international shortlist. Wireless is not a US/UK phenomenon - it's global, and it's great that the judges recognised entries from Macedonia, Portugal, Africa, New Zealand, Sweden, Japan, The Netherlands and Germany."
WBI Awards Ltd is a Birmingham, UK based independent institution, organising the hotly contested independent Awards for users and service providers of wireless broadband worldwide. The WBI Award categories cover excellence in service provision; in enterprise deployment by the end-user; in product development; and personal and corporate achievement.
BT Openzone only 1 euro at Insomnia
It's Spring Promotion time at the Insomnia Coffee Company with BT Openzone. For a limited time only, all BT Openzone customers can buy a coffee from Insomnia and get 1 hour's worth of wifi internet access for 1 euro.
Additionally, BT Openzone are running a competition to win free coffee and free wifi for a year.
Participating stores include:
- St. Stephens Green
- Nassau St
- Baggot St
- IFSC
- Blackrock
- Charlotte Way
- Pembroke Street
- Dun Laoghaire
- Swords
- French Church street, Cork
BT Ireland plays with Nintendos Wifi strength
A revolution is underway in the worlds of Wi-Fi and gaming. Nintendo is bringing Wi-Fi technology into play in Ireland with a new groundbreaking deal with BT Openzone.The service allows anyone to play against friends and family across the globe simply, safely and best of all - for free!
To ensure that anyone really can play against others from all over the world with their Nintendo DS, the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection can be accessed in any one of three ways:
1. Gamers will be able to visit any one of over 270 BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots at locations across the island of Ireland. These include Insomnia and O’Brien’s coffee houses, Hilton, Ramada International Worldwide, Hastings and Cara Hotels, Maxol Service stations, Belfast and Cork Airports, BT Payphones as well as many more hotpots. By logging onto www.btopenzone.ie you can find the Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection hotspots closest to you.
2. Nintendo will also be installing BT Openzone Wi-Fi hotspots into major video games retailers such as GAME, HMV, GameStop and Smyths Toys in addition to other key outlets across Ireland, meaning it really is possible to game anywhere!
3. Gamers with a broadband internet connection at home will be able to enjoy the free, simple and safe Wi-Fi gaming service, you simply need a Wi-Fi access point or hotspot, like a Wi-Fi wireless router, and an active broadband internet connection. If you do not have a wireless access point, you can purchase a Nintendo Wi-Fi USB Connector from any major video games retailer for around €40 which plugs into a PC and automatically sets up a connection for you.
Nintendo’s Wi-Fi gaming service is free - there are no fees or subscriptions to pay. It’s incredibly easy to use - you simply turn it on and select Wi-Fi, there are no complicated menu screens and minimum configurations required and most importantly Nintendo’s Wi-Fi Connection service is a safe environment for players.
Players have the option to select to play with just friends, or people of a similar skill level around the world without fear of harassment. Players do not have direct communication with each other when playing anonymously and therefore personnel details or inappropriate comments cannot be exchanged.
Chris Clark, CEO of Converged Mobility Operations, BT said: "Wi-Fi is increasingly becoming part of everyone's lives, whether you are a business traveller, a professional working away from the office or now someone who enjoys playing games on consoles against people round the world. We are delighted to be working with Nintendo on this partnership which will broaden the appeal of Wi-Fi from the business into the consumer market.
We believe the future for Wi-Fi is that people will be able to access the internet, their corporate networks and their games consoles any time, anywhere using whatever device they have."
Bitbuzz teams up with iPass
Bitbuzz now provide inbound roaming for iPass customers. iPass is one of the largest Wi-Fi networks in the world, and leaders in internet Wi-Fi security solutions. It is listed as one of the world's top 10 companies in wireless technology operating with the major players in over 60 countries.
iPass users can now access the Internet seamlessly in Ireland through accounts that were set up elsewhere.
As the only wholly Irish owned Wi-Fi network, Bitbuzz are happy to welcome iPass users to our shores.
Irish Broadband to deploy WiMAX
Irish Broadband has announced that it is to roll-out WiMAX broadband services in Athlone, Arklow, Carlow, Cork, Dublin, Ennis, Galway, Kilkenny, Killaloe, Letterkenny, Limerick, Newbridge, Portlaoise and Wexford.Worldwide Interoperability of Microwave Access (WiMAX) is seen as the next generation wifi, which is faster and offers high-speed wireless data connections over a theoretical range of up to 30 kilometres, with a real-world range of about five to eight kilometres.
According to Irish Broadband, both residential and business users will be able to sign-up for its services to make the most of higher download and upload speeds for data, of up to 12Mbps.
"We are delighted to have been chosen by Intel to team up for the roll-out of WiMAX in Ireland," said Paul Doody, managing director of Irish Broadband. "This development will enable Irish Broadband to expand its network coverage area as well as further enhance its ability to provide services such as VoIP, video broadband and other IP data and voice services."