No seriously! Despite how rubbish you can be (note, not all are that rubbish), you have this ability to make me laugh, even when it’s not funny! You see, on Wednesday I took a trip down to my local high street, a busy one at that; in all I would hazard a guess that there are [...] Continue Reading

I’ve been meaning to do a post about this news released by Ofcom a few weeks ago. Here are the highlights: By the end of 2007, there were almost 74 million mobile connections serving a population of 60 million in the UK. This was an increase of 3.7 million connections since the end of 2006. The total [...] Continue Reading

Tim Sills is based out of Southern California and one of his bags is mobile payments. He’s got quite a bit of experience in the category so I asked him to write an overview of where we are in the marketplace from his perspective. Here we go. Tim, over to you: - - [...] Continue Reading

Kudos to Matthew Bennett who has already sent us three different videos, filmed, if I’m not very much mistaken, on a Nokia N95. Stands to reason as Matthew runs NSeriesUS.com. Matthew has pointed the camera at himself and filmed the following lines: - “You’re watching Mobile Industry Review, not SMS Text News” - “And now [...] Continue Reading

Are you among those who think that their operator is overcharging for calls? If you are, EU might just be the angel in disguise you were looking for. The European Commission, said yesterday, that it may just legislate further to lower the charges levied by most European Mobile service providers. The executive arms of European Union [...] Continue Reading

Check this issue out from Steve Rowlands (of S60blogger) about Orange (yeah, them again): Steve writes: Sick and tired of the lack of customer service from Orange, I decided to cancel my contract with 10 months remaining. Upon making the phone call to the customer (dis)service disconnections department, I found myself greeted by a rather rude and abrupt [...] Continue Reading

I was just talking to question answering service, AQA and apparently — I haven’t managed to confirm this — one of the betting tips that they suggested has yielded one lucky punter a £33,000 win. Nice. Not a bad return for a premium rate text message eh? I will hopefully get some more details soon. Continue Reading

I’m really excited to bring you the first in a series of posts about Estonia. Marino Bresciani responded to my call for contributors this week and took up the challenge. The first missive is a an overview of the marketplace and a look at how SMS is being used across the country. [...] Continue Reading

Here’s a tale of woe from Miss Charlie Waldren a semi regular reader here at Mobile Industry Review. Alas, Orange don’t have anything like Vodafone’s Forum Intervention Team so she is, I suspect, destined to roam the land without a response or a resolution. Have a read: - - - - - Orange is [...] Continue Reading

I’m being serious here. Since my time here as Mobile Industry Review I’ve read hundreds of news articles on the latest goings on with the mobile industry. Yes a lot of the so called news is terribly “boring”, but every now and then, I have to sit back laugh, and ask “why”? Ricky kindly sent me [...] Continue Reading

This is a good idea.? An excellent use of the medium (so reports the Shields Gazette): SOUTH Tyneside offenders will soon be sent text messages to remind them of their next appointments. Probation officers in Gateshead are already texting prolific offenders and those convicted of drug-related offences to remind them of future meetings. And from next month, the [...] Continue Reading

O2 Germany’s recent move to block Rebtel’s access numbers looks like yet another attempt by the big operators to preserve ‘their world’ at the expense of competition and customer choice. Other recent examples include Truphone’s interconnect issues, disabled VoIP clients on operator branded Nokia handsets and specific 07 number ranges excluded from call bundles. It reminds [...] Continue Reading