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SMS Text News regular (and world-renowned foosball player) Ben Smith has been living with 3’s X-Series in the UK and his travels for just over six months. It’s been his ‘regular drive’ - his everyday handset and a home for his main work and personal number. What does he think about it? Here’s his long-term [...]
Continue ReadingI never knew that mobile operators actually had repair avoidance centres!
An SMS Text News reader got me on instant messenger this morning to relate a tale of woe.
Grant’s handset isn’t faulty per se, it’s just that the back and front covers aren’t connecting properly. For some reason they’ve come apart. This was a [...]
I really can’t help myself when it comes to good service from mobile companies.
Listen to this.
Or, better still, read…
Not 2 minutes ago, I got a phone call from Richard at 3UK Customer Services.
“How are you getting on with your plan?” he asks me, in a good Scottish brogue.
“Ah, er, well…” I begin, [...]
This was a surprise. Now and again I have a look through the stats and see what everybody’s looking at. I find it very useful to research what you — grouped together as the growing SMS Text News audience — is actually reading, versus what I think qualifies as news.
So, here we [...]
After rumours, hints and the odd shocked-and-saddened-from-Surrey style rants from yours truly, finally, the Nokia N95 arrives on 3UK.
I found the link burried deep within the 3UK site — I thought, for some reason, that they’d be trumpeting the handset’s arrival from the frontpage — but after a few clicks, I found it.
Many [...]
I think I could name at least 20 people planning on buying a Nokia N95 on 3UK, the moment it’s possible. If, like it’s Italian counterpart, the British N95 comes laden with X-Series goodness…. well… that could be a handset to lust over, big time.
Are you getting one?
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
I’m still really quite annoyed at not being able to get hold of a Vodafone Spain USB modem. Despite what it says on the website, the lady in the shop down the road was not having any of it.
She didn’t respond well to my pigeon Spanish at all.
I thought of thrusting [...]
So tomorrow morning I’m off to gorgeous hotel, One Aldwych, just down the road here in London, to a Mobile Internet Seminar. It’s being put on by 3UK and features presentations from 3, Yahoo, Skype, Jaiku and London School of Economics.
The event starts at 8.30am (”breakfast”), presentations start at 9.00am, followed by a short [...]
Link: Netimperative - 3 brings in new head of communication
Alan joins from brand and marketing consultancy Egghead Ltd where he was managing director. Previously he was a general manager for VW Group, Luxury Cars and also worked as the company’s head of communications. Prior to that, he was head of consumer marketing for Yellow [...]
Link: Vodafone slashes mobile internet charges by half - Independent Online Edition > Business News
This interesting news appeared on UK newspaper The Independent website today. Vodafone have apparently kicked off a ‘price war’ by introducing a flat-rate mobile broadband tariff of £25/month. Although the article says that the ‘fair use’ limit has been raised, it [...]
So I was on a conference call with Kevin Russell, CEO of 3UK, not a moment ago. The subject was number portability and just how dire the situation is here in the UK.
Currently, if you’d like to port your mobile number to another operator, there are quite a few idiot processes you need [...]
I wanted to highlight Jonathan’s point about Three UK — and in particular their X-Series team who’ve been very responsive:
SMS Text News » CUE A RANT: Three UK is ALL OVER THE PLACE with their Nokia N95 strategy
I did want to add to Ewan’s post that I was very impressed by the speed and openness [...]
Look at this, it really does wind me up. Not Jon’s comment, but the fact he’s EVEN HAVING to post the comment.
Link: SMS Text News » Three’s X-Series launches in Italy WITH NOKIA N95s!
jonmul Says:
I swapped a few emails with the X-Series blog team this morning, as I want to join up to X-Series, [...]
‘WE WAS ROBBED’
How come the Italians are getting N95s on X-Series while us poor second cousins here in the UK are having to go to rival networks to get hold of the handsets?
And what about those LG U960 handsets? Love’em.
Link: xseries
The X-Series has arrived in Italy!
Our colleagues in 3 Italy become the [...]
FT.com / Companies / Telecoms - Hutchison’s 3 challenges UK regulator
Hutchison Whampoa’s mobile operator, 3, is challenging plans by UK regulators to force it to charge substantially less for connecting phone calls to its network because of concerns that the changes threaten its path to profitability.
Last week 3 lodged an appeal with the Competition [...]
Link: Hutch 3G UK Appeals over Termination Cuts
Hutchison 3G UK has filed an appeal against a regulatory decision to reduce its termination charges by 45 percent, calling the ruling “absurd” and “‘anti-competitive,” the Financial Times has reported. The company has lodged the appeal with the UK’s Competition Appeal Tribunal.
Meanwhile they’re planning to start charging for [...]
Link: Online poker goes mobile as Bwin signs up phone operators - Independent Online Edition > Business News
The online poker craze is set to go mobile with network operators T-Mobile and 3 offering British customers access to Bwin’s multi-player application PokerRoom.com.
Since it was launched in 2005, PokerRoom has attracted 11 million registered customers over the [...]
Link: Noodle for cheap calls
Had a tip in from an SMS Text News reader earlier about a service called Noodle. The concept is quite simple - you get a new number which you use instead of your existing mobile number, and everytime you make or receive a call you earn 2p a minute cash. Is it [...]
Link: ElectricNews.net:News:RTE goes mobile with Three
The partnership will see RTE shows such as ‘The Late Late Show’, ‘Off the Rails’ ‘Tubridy Tonight’ and ‘Show Me The Money’ being made available to both pre-pay and bill-paying Three customers at a rate of EUR0.50 for a period of 24 hours.
“We see your mobile as being your personal [...]
Link: News: T-Mobile looks set to win Euro distribution rights for the iPhone - MarketingWeek
Gosh, the rumour mill is in full spin this week. According to Marketing Week, T-Mobile have emerged as the frontrunner in the race to secure the European distribution rights for the long-awaited Apple iPhone.
Europe’s biggest mobile phone networks, including Vodafone, Orange [...]
Link: Unlimited Google searches for free on your 3 mobile
Three customers in Ireland can now get unlimited Google search access after the network brokered a deal with the popular search engine. The offering is available for both pay as you go and contract customers, and adds to the existing search offerings from Yahoo! and messenging [...]
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