Archive for July, 2007
ticket-text
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Hot new Dublin mobile startup, Ticket-Text goes live today with it’s consumer service — simultaneously announcing an agreement to offer Ryanair’s 52m customers with low-cost tickets for concerts, sports, theatres, galleries and exhibitions in the UK, Ireland and Europe.
Customers get their tickets via unique barcode sent to their handset. No arsing [...]
trutap
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Just what is Trutap?
Four people have emailed or talked to me about Trutap in the last week.
Interesting, very interesting.
I’ll be able to say a lot more shortly.
If you’re aware of anyone who might be interested in investing into the largest mobile blogging community in Europe, do speak to Alfie at Moblog:Tech.
They’re embarking on a first round of substantial funding, they’re 100% management-owned, debt free and hauling in revenues like nobody’s business.
They don’t just run moblog.co.uk, they also provide the [...]
Link: Sprint boots 200 American patriots for using their phones | The Register
It’s not been a good month for Sprint. Just over a week ago they booted 1,000 ‘annoying’ customers for calling customer services too much, which resulted in plenty of negative PR around the web. Now they’re really asking for trouble, having thrown 200 [...]
Link: Global demand for mobile data services soars - vnunet.com
Analysts Informa have published their World Cellular Data Metrics report today - which shows that worldwide mobile data revenue from non-SMS services has exceeded $10bn in the first quarter of 2007.
However, the report goes on to state that this interest in other data services does not indicate [...]
According to reports T-Mobile have notched up half a million subscribers to it’s Web’N’Walk service in the UK in the past 18 months, and predicts it’ll double that by the end of the year.
You can’t argue with the price - for £7.50 a month you get a flat-rate data tariff (not ‘unlimited’, which is obviously something [...]
Link: Brussels drops mobile roaming case - Times Online
After seven years, millions of pounds and many thousands of man hours later, the EU have decided to drop an investigation into overcharging on overseas calls by mobile operators.
The anti-trust investigation against Vodafone, O2 and T-Mobile, which could have led to multi-million euro fines against the operators, was [...]
Caribbean mobile monopoly breaker Digicel has long complained about incumbent Cable & Wireless and their alleged anti-competitive behaviour - but today things took a further twist.
According to The Register, Digicel has launched action against C&W in the UK’s High Court, with the former accusing the latter of refusal to interconnect, as well as charging unreasonable [...]
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I and a few other SMS Text News readers have taken delivery of a Nokia N770 tablet device thanks to the uber-wicked pricing on Expansys.
I haven’t tried it out yet - just opened it up to peer in and have a wee look.
If you reckon you could [...]
Caught this on Peter’s post on MobileCrunch…
Link: MobileCrunch » Ministry of Sound Plots MVNO Launch
If you’re hitting the U.K. dance clubs until the sun comes up, then the best way to reach you might be on a Ministry of Sound branded phone. And this could be in the cards, as the popular U.K. based independent [...]
Link: Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Chinese govt. uses texting to warn 150,000 of flood danger
More than 150,000 people in southwest China survived an early morning flood thanks to timely government warnings delivered by mobile phone text messages, loudspeakers and door-to-door visits. ‘The flood was so sudden I would have drowned [...]
Helen Keegan of Beep Marketing will be spitting blood, I’m sure, when she reads this. She’s always been particularly annoyed by bluetooth spamming — me too.
Have a look at this job advertised on the London Craigslist:
Link: Bluetooth Marketing Person
We produce Bluetooth devices that beam a Bluetooth advertising text message to all mobile phones within the [...]
Based in London — if mobile account management is your thing, talk to AOL.
Link: Account Management Director-AOL Mobile
AOL Mobile is the group that brings the latest in mobile technology to the wireless consumer. We want consumers to get the most out of their mobile phones by making it easy to access and use applications like; [...]
 Mobile VOIP provider Truphone have unveiled a neat way to tell how whether your call is going via Truphone or your existing mobile operator.
One thing that makes Truphone different (and better, we humbly suggest) is that your phone works as always. No separate application - dial as usual and save pots of cash.
And how do [...]
Link: Dr Love brings good sex to Indonesia
Young Indonesians will no longer be misinformed about sex, as Fiesta Condoms launches a sex education text service in the country.
“We learned that nearly 50 percent of young Indonesians were learning about sex from watching pornographic movies,” Fiesta Condoms representative Christopher Purdy said.
“We believed that there was an [...]
Link: National Business Review (NBR) - Business, News, Arts, Media, Share Market & More
More rumblings from New Zealand, with another twist in the saga of Plus SMS…
Text message company Plus SMS is facing a cash crisis following its sacking of a senior manager for gross misconduct and alleged fraud.
Last month the company reported a loss [...]
Link: Moving mobile numbers should be instant | The Register
Ofcom has issued a second document on number portability, recommending that customers be able to instantly move their fixed and mobile numbers between networks.
Number portability, the ability to take your phone number with you when you change networks, increases churn - and thus competition - wherever [...]
This is neat!
Link: SMS warning for heart attack victims : Industry News : News : BCS
Experts at an Indian university have developed a Bluetooth heart monitor capable of sending a text message to patients’ hospitals if they are about to suffer a heart attack.
Vodafone are steaming away with what looks to be a pretty good first quarter.
Group revenue of £8.3 billion, 7.5% growth on last year, organic growth 4.0%
One should hope so, especially when it costs 35p a minute to call someone on another network
9.1 million net mobile additions — up from 4.8m in Q1 2006.
And it could [...]
20 million Brits — that is, if you scale up the survey by Hotel booking service, AlphaRooms, reckon it’s necessary to take their work on holiday with them.
Link: SourceWire | Press Releases - 20 Million Brits Take Work on Holiday
Two thirds of those questioned by the online travel company admitted to having their holidays interrupted [...]
As we reported last night, 3UK is shocking the market with phenomenally good European roaming pricing, starting from 30th August 2007.
More from the news release:
3 customers are set to make serious savings on international roaming rates as the network announces its new EU rates. Following the recent EU announcement capping mobile roaming prices in [...]
If you’re a hot shot mobile company — I can think of quite a few I know who are reading — then it might be worth taking a look at the Under the Radar event for Mobile Startups.
Dealmaker Media, the company behind the event, have put out a call for companies. Anyone can enter. [...]
Very similar to the French, the Iranians are keen to keep their culture free of too many westernisms that have been slipping into their language. There is apparently no Farsi for terms like texting and SMS. The nearest they’ve found is ‘payam’ which means ‘message’. That works, I reckon.
Anyway, more details: [...]
Got a note in from an SMS Text News reader this afternoon who confidently asserts that 3UK are about to announce the following roaming price update tomorrow:
3 are reducing europe roaming charges from 30th August: -
25p/min to make a call abroad
10p/min to receive a call aboad
25p/text to send a text whilst abroad
No charge [...]
I’ve had a ton of invitation requests for the upcoming Unlimited Drinks meeting which is very exciting.
I’ve put all the emails in their own folder so if you’ve emailed, you’re on the list and you’re coming.
I’m still planning the mechanics of it. In particular, there have been a lot of [...]
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