Mobile Data
Here I am sat in beautiful San Casciano in the middle of Italy just south of Florence. I managed to find a little bar to sit in whilst I gaze out across the rolling fields of Tuscany. It’s siesta time at the minute — most of the shops are shut and, crucially, so is [...]
Continue ReadingLink: Consumer Data Bolt On - Tariffs - Mobiles & Tariffs - O2
SMS Text News reader Barry got in touch just now to highlight O2’s rather stupid ‘unlimited’ data offering. They’re trying to hard to match similar options from T-Mobile and Three, but manage to completely screw it up by throwing in loads of conditions [...]
Ever fancied getting your hands on a really cool .mobi domain name, but found it was taken? You might be in luck, as some of the 5,500 commonly used words the registry ‘reserved’ before offering registrations to the public are to be auctioned off via Sedo starting this Wednesday.
“The mobile web is bigger than the [...]
I’m just working away on my 3UK USB Modem. It’s genius. It’s fantastic. I’m sat in a huge commercial telecommunications company’s offices at the moment. Their wireless connection has been a bit iffy so I’ve been using the USB modem all afternoon.
Now and again I’ve been showing people stuff on the web. [...]
o2’s call centre has been getting a lot of traffic today I’m sure. SMS Text News reader Barry has been on to them this morning asking about unlimited data.
Unlimited Data has been an on-going saga for ages. They’ve steadfastly avoided introducing any unlimited plans to date — and, alas, many of their [...]
Link: O2 to join flat rate club - www.mobile-ent.biz
Mobile Entertainment are reporting that O2 are about to launch a flat rate data plan in the UK - although quite when that’ll be (and how much it’ll cost) is anyone’s guess..
An O2 insider said: “O2 will offer wholesale data, but we think most of the problems [...]
I’m sat here in the Grand Hotel in Hartlepool. Grand, it ain’t.
However I have my laptop plugged into the power source — and that’s working. There’s no wifi, obviously. Hartlepool is the world’s least connected wifi town (as I proved recently).
Yesterday I popped into the 3UK shop in the Middleton [...]
I’m off down to Maidenhead this morning to meet Kitt Gilbert Scott at Good Mobile Messaging. I’m going to take a tour of the new 5.0 version which is coming soon. I can’t wait to get my hands on it.
Obviously after their acquisition by Motorola, one might expect them to only [...]
Collectively, I think I pay T-Mobile about 300 quid a month via two accounts. I have been really content with their Flext price plans and, of course, their data services — particularly since they lead the market with the Web’N’Walk plans for quite a while.
A while ago, I wrote that all of a sudden, [...]
For sometime now I’ve not been able to get my Apple to connect via bluetooth to my handset when I’ve been out and about. This morning, on the train into London from Henley, Eureka!
I upgraded to a new version of Novamedia’s Launch2net a month or so ago and hadn’t made time to [...]
Link: Vodafone cranks up 3G data rates for autumn | The Register
 First reported by us here about a month ago, Vodafone have now confirmed they’ll be rolling out HSDPA and HSUPA speed increases on their 3G network this autumn.
Vodafone will be pushing its HSDPA network to a possible 7.2Mb/sec download speed and introducing HSUPA to [...]
el Chumpo, AKA “o2″, has cooked up another raft of data plans for international roaming — as has, I think, been commented before.
Paul Worsley caught this via the o2 site and I thought I’d better document it for my own sanity. Whenever I think that we’re getting somewhere with mobile data in this country, I [...]
Link: 3 launches tenner-a-month data | The Register
The Register are reporting that 3 are about to launch 3G mobile broadband from just ten quid a month.
At £10 a month, the basic Mobile Broadband package (”Light”) gets you 1GB of data, while £15 gets you 3GB, and £25 up to 7GB. Data usage outside these buckets [...]
Link: US punters gobbling up mobile data | The Register
The Register is reporting that between April and June this year, the US wireless business made $5.85bn from data, an increase of seven per cent on the same period last year, and contributing nearly 17 per cent to total revenues.
In the UK, operators like data to [...]
You know o2 and their £100 a meg data policy? (Ok, slight exaggeration)
Well, SMS Text News reader Owen has had a bit of luck with them. He posted this today:
Link: SMS Text News » o2 chumps, attention: Get unlimited data for £10/month
My contract had run out so I phoned O2 and INSISTED [...]
Link: Steamy sex films, now moving to cellphones - International Herald Tribune
Although they are not trumpeting such deals, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, 3UK and other mainstream telecommunications providers in Europe are developing red-light districts on their Web portals. In recent weeks, some have made deals with Yahoo and Google to prominently display search tools that ease [...]
Normobs, (”normal mobile users”) are getting internet on mobile. They are actually getting it. They are understanding it and they are using it.
How do I know this?
Well, I was listening to an absolutely rubbish radio programme last night in the taxi from Darlington station to The Grand (but not very) Hotel [...]
Link: Yahoo to start optimising for mobile | The Register
The Register is reporting that Yahoo are planning to use mobile optimization technology from Novarra to help serve up mobile-friendly search results.
The service, which will hopefully work unlike Vodafone’s efforts last month, will be used to serve up pages linked from search results in Yahoo’s oneSearch [...]
David Murphy of Mobile Marketing Magazine has done an interesting interview featuring Andrew Bud of mBlox discussing mobile data. Andrew firmly believes that the mobile operators haven’t quite got the right strategy with their all-you-can-eat data plans at 5 or 10 pounds per month.
I think they’ve got it right from a consumer perspective. [...]
UK mobile operators T-Mobile, 3 and Vodafone have confirmed plans to begin rolling out the High Speed Uplink Packet Access (HSUPA) standard in the UK by the end of the year.
The technology - which uses packet scheduling - takes the performance enhancements found in the High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) standard and brings them to the upload side of a [...]
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 [...]
I think it’s time for a new handset. My poor E61 is trying to run Jaiku, Good Mobile Messaging, and Truphone - all at the same time. It’s crashing about every two minutes at the moment - which is not so good.
I’m thinking of keeping the E61 for email with Good, and going to an [...]
Link: ENN - Ireland’s IT Newswire
Lucky consumers in Ireland will be able to get their hands on a 3G HSPDA-powered mobile broadband service shortly, giving them speeds of up to 3.6Mbit/s.
The service includes up to 10GB of data transfer per month, and O2 claim will reach 75% of the population from launch. There’s a three [...]
You know I was going to buy a pay as you go USB modem for data at the Vodafone shop down the street from the hotel here in San Sebastian?
I went in.
Pigeon English, Pigeon Spanish… worked out that NO you can’t have a USB modem unless you CONTRACTOS.
Arse.
But… you’ll never guess… there’s wifi in [...]
Link: Mobile broadband popularity rockets - ZDNet UK
Europe will have five million mobile broadband connections by the end of this year, a Swedish analyst firm has predicted.
According to Berg Insight, the countries where people are signing up most quickly to HSDPA (high-speed 3G) services are Austria and Sweden. Overall, the firm predicts, the continent’s mobile [...]
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