{"id":12347,"date":"2016-03-09T17:50:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/how_gigsky_made_mwc_easy_for_me.html"},"modified":"2022-10-14T18:31:29","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T22:31:29","slug":"how-gigsky-made-mwc-easy-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/how-gigsky-made-mwc-easy-for-me.html","title":{"rendered":"How GigSky Made #MWC Easy for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/query\/SearchResults.aspx?searchstring=GigSky&#038;type=anywords&#038;stem=True&#038;phonic=False&#038;fuzzy=0&#038;feeds=True&#038;area=0&#038;sort=date\">GigSky<\/a> now a few years in Europe to keep me connected while at Mobile World Congress. I plugged the GigSky SIM into a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/query\/searchresults.aspx?searchstring=huawei&#038;Action.x=0&#038;Action.y=0&#038;Action=Go%21\">Huawei<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/query\/SearchResults.aspx?searchstring=MiFi&#038;type=anywords&#038;stem=True&#038;phonic=False&#038;fuzzy=0&#038;feeds=True&#038;area=0&#038;sort=date\">MiFi<\/a> and was able to work like a champ &#8211; getting email, doing internet searches and anything else I wanted. I tried to save bandwidth cost by using the provided WiFi in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firabarcelona.com\/en\/home\">Fira<\/a> but quite often I was disconnected. <\/p>\n<p>The MiFi helped save battery on my various devices &#8211; remember, it takes less power to send a local signal as opposed to cellular which may have transmit a mile away or more.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/gigsky.PNG\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/assets_c\/2016\/03\/gigsky-thumb-500x291-14972.png\" alt=\"gigsky.PNG\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company provided me and numerous TMC team members with $50 credits which lasted us for just under a week. My entire team said the service was great &#8211; no problems. I continue to recommend GigSky. Here is more on the company&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gigsky.com\/pricing\">pricing<\/a>&nbsp;as well as a past <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/4g\/boingo-gigsky-xcom-why-my-europe-connectivity-was-awesome.html\">post<\/a> which describes my experience with them from 2014.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve used GigSky now a few years in Europe to keep me connected while at Mobile World Congress. I plugged the GigSky SIM into a Huawei MiFi and was able to work like a champ &#8211; getting email, doing internet searches and anything else I wanted. I tried to save bandwidth cost by using the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[185,193,118,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12347"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18564,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12347\/revisions\/18564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}