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So o2 has currently been behind all the other networks when it came to mobile broadband, however it seems they may have pulled the cat out of the bag.
From Mobile Today;
O2 is looking to accelerate sales of its mobile broadband by offering a money-back guarantee amid growing consumer uncertainty regarding speeds and coverage for dongles.The [...]
Continue ReadingRemembered the heady days of October the first when Virgin entered the mobile broadband market? Now they’ve only gone and launched the cheapest deal in UK at just a fiver a month.
There’s catch, as expected and there always is of course – you need to be on Virgin.
New and existing customers on their service, such [...]
The UK’s Advertising Standards Authority (”ASA”) has taken the hatchet to Vodafone UK’s mobile broadband advertising.
The ads typically showed a USB broadband stick looking like a rocket jetting into outerspace, with a strapline explaining that Vodafone’s mobile broadband service is ‘light years ahead’ of the competition. The ad also aimed to point out that [...]
I see that Virgin Media/Mobile has launched a Mobile Broadband dongle.
They have NO business doing this.
No business at all.
THIS from a company that charges 0.5 pence per Kb for mobile data to handsets.
THIS from a company that still has ‘SEE ABOVE FOR WAP CHARGES‘ on it’s tariff page.
WAP charges?
Virgin Mobile is stuck in the dark [...]
HSPA is taking over the world. According to the GSM Association, there are now 50 million users on HSPA networks around the globe - a massive leap from last’s year’s figure of 11 million connections. The association reckons that new users will be joining HSPA networks at the rate of around 4 million a month [...]
Continue ReadingNo surprise, actually, is it? Have a read of this:
3 UK’s Mobile Broadband offering has been named “Best Mobile Broadband” by the UK’s most popular dedicated broadband comparison site, www.top10-broadband.co.uk. The independent site, which claims over a million unique users each month, has given 3 UK the award based on [...]
Over in the US, there’s an interesting plan brewing. The Federal Communications Commission is planning to auction a piece of spectrum off under the proviso that the winner of the auction has to offer a free wireless internet service with part of the spectrum.
Operators, it seems, have been dragging their feet and causing delays, [...]
Kudos to 3.
They led the way, in the UK at least, with the tenner-a-month USB mobile broadband revolution.
This shows demand is strong for mobile broadband in all 3’s territories, including the UK, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, Denmark and Austria…
… says the press release I got in this morning.
Christian Salbaing, MD of European Telecoms at Hutchison isn’t [...]
I am still disbelieving, even after all this time, that I can actually sit and work on a USB broadband modem for 8 or 9 hours across a day, and for it to work continuously and without error.
It really is very smart.
I think I’m still expecting things to screw up. I remember when my [...]
Vodafone whacked me over a USB modem stick to use on the way to and from the Desert Island. (I’m given to understand that GRPS doesn’t quite work in the Maldives - so I’ll be using this one on the way to and from the airport in the UK.)
Continue ReadingThe rumours were true: BT has gone for another bite of the dual mode cherry, using an HTC smartphone, pictured here, called the BT ToGo. The dual-mode device will come bundled as part of BT’s Total Broadband Anywhere package - which covers home broadband, as well as mobile minutes, texts and 10 MB of mobile [...]
Continue ReadingO2 has joined the rest of its operator friends in launching a so-called mobile broadband service - or a 3G USB modem to the rest of us. For £20 a month, O2 customers can get 3GB of data allowance and unlimited wi-fi at The Cloud hotspots with a free modem if they sign up to [...]
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