Real digital nomads need cheap mobile connectivity world-wide
by Eric Ehrmann / Oct 1
Road warriors are Web 1.0, and digital nomads just may be Web 2.0. But global connectivity for people like me, who travel from the US to Brasil to France and build communities online working in languages other than English, is still back with the Flintstones. So perhaps part of being a global digital nomad should be having access to cheap mobile connectivity world-wide. In the US I use a Sprint aircard, in France it is Orange Extreme (not the cologne- the 3G mobile) and in Brasil, it’s Claro! I can feed a classroom of hungry kids in Gonaives, Haiti for a month for what all this is costing me. There is more to being a digital nomad than the upmarket lifestyle trappings. So maybe the next big step needs to be helping us non-card carrying digital nomads to juice up the fiber and get real about cross-border connectivity.
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