{"id":1273,"date":"2009-01-21T01:40:58","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T06:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1273"},"modified":"2009-01-21T01:40:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T06:40:58","slug":"skypes-roaming-wifi-and-the-singapore-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/21\/skypes-roaming-wifi-and-the-singapore-airport","title":{"rendered":"Skype’s roaming WiFi, and the Singapore Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was in in the Singapore Changi Airport yesterday, and thought I should pull some mail while in the terminal, so as to be more productive on the plane ride home. Opening my laptop, I saw the following:<\/p>\n


\n\"Skype<\/a>
\n<\/center><\/p>\n

Pretty nifty right? This is what you get with the new Skype beta for Mac OS X 2.8<\/a> – access to roam on many wireless networks, via Boingo, in a new service called Skype Access. It comes out of your Skype credit, so you don’t need no stinkin’ credit card.<\/p>\n

Over on Flickr<\/a> I was asked if the €0.14 made sense per minute. I’m here to give you a resounding no<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Wireless@SG is free to access. Just roam with Singtel, and dial *186. I wrote about this previously<\/a>. Access until midnight, and when you need it again, don’t hesitate to ask. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was in in the Singapore Changi Airport yesterday, and thought I should pull some mail while in the terminal, so as to be more productive on the plane ride home. Opening my laptop, I saw the following: Pretty nifty right? This is what you get with the new Skype beta for Mac OS X […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[59],"tags":[671,670,309,307],"class_list":["post-1273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel","tag-airport","tag-changi","tag-singapore","tag-skype"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vJD-kx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1273"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1273\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}