Posted by Kay on 22 March 2012
Calls from mobile phones to 0800 numbers may be entering new territory in coming weeks. Ofcom has announced a plan to ban mobile operators such as O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Three from charging for mobile access to these numbers. At the current time, mobile phone users face stiff fees that can be as high as 40p per minute. This strikes many mobile phone users as patently unfair, since 0800 numbers are free when dialled from a traditional landline phone.
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Posted by Kay on 5 March 2012
In a move that has stunned the mobile phone community in the UK, Three has announced that, contrary to previous reports, it is working on improved 3G for the summer. Postings on the company’s own blog had earlier convinced customers that the telecom, the smallest of the largest networks in the country, was actually intending to roll out 4G quickly. The revised information has been characterised as an abrupt ‘U-turn’ that has disappointed many of the telecom’s customers.
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Posted by Charlie on 5 March 2012
The UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has issued several proposals that will help mobile phone users avoid ‘bill shock’, a term that has come to describe the increasingly common phenomenon of consumers receiving a bill that is grossly out of line with the amount they are expecting to have to pay for their voice and data service. A new study has indicated that in the last six months alone, almost 1.5 million mobile phone users may have experienced some form of bill shock.
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Posted by Kellie on 23 February 2012
The three largest mobile phone networks in the UK are Vodafone, Everything Everywhere, and O2. These three companies have long planned a joint venture that would enable them to have a mobile payment scheme in place in time for the next Olympic Games, which take place in London this coming summer. Now, however, that joint venture has been cast into some doubt by news that regulatory hurdles may delay its inception – possibly until after the Games themselves.
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Posted by Charlie on 8 February 2012
Three, the smallest of the major UK mobile phone networks, has just announced a new product to be tested in this country. The device, which bears the unusual name of WebCube, will allow home computer users to access the internet. WebCube uses a SIM card so that users can connect as many as five separate devices, such as computers and tablets, to the Three mobile phone network.
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Posted by Kellie on 29 January 2012
New proposals emanating from Ofcom have not caused the kind of dissention that last year's plans regarding the 4G spectrum did. Then, Guy Laurence, serving as the CEO of Vodafone, characterised the proposals as tantamount to a handout of government resources to smaller mobile phone networks such as Three.
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Posted by Charlie on 26 January 2012
One of the most important considerations for anyone buying a mobile phone is the signal strength being provided on the various networks. A better signal can mean faster transmission times and fewer dropped calls; it can also make it more likely that phone users who descend into an underground area will continue to enjoy service. All the major phone networks know that signal strength is a vital component of their service and have provided tools that consumers can use to check signals in their area.
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Posted by Jon on 16 January 2012
Several different mobile phone networks in the UK have announced that the much-anticipated Sony Xperia S will work on their systems. These networks include not just O2 and Orange but also T-Mobile and Three.
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Posted by Kay on 15 January 2012
In addition to a new tethering capacity, BlackBerry OS version 7.1, which is currently in a roll-out phase as users update their handsets, will offer exciting new features that make use of near field communications technology. NFC has been embedded into BlackBerry units since the middle of last year but, until now, the NFC capacity was under-utilised by most consumers. That may now be poised to change due to a new element in the 7.1 interface known as Tag.
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Posted by Kay on 23 December 2011
Even before most Brits had ever heard the term ‘smartphone’, those in business and commerce were already in love with their BlackBerry handsets. From integrated calendar and contact functions to a convenient full QWERTY keyboard, the Research in Motion company knew how to deliver what its target consumers wanted.
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