Archive for the ‘Mobile Networks’ Category
Friday, January 27th, 2012
T-Mobile U.K. is set to introduce a new price plan from February 1 that offers British subscribers everything their smartphone will ever need for just £36 (approx. $54.46) per month. It’s called “The Full Monty” plan, a trusted tipster revealed exclusively to TechnoBuffalo, and one of its best features includes truly unlimited data.
It’s ...
Posted in 3 / Three, Mobile Networks, Other News, T-Mobile |
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
UK carrier O2 finds itself embroiled in data protection controversy today, with allegations that the operator is revealing mobile users cellphone number to each website they visit on their phone. According to Lewis Peckover, buried in among the header data from each O2 visitor is a line revealing their own mobile number; he set ...
Posted in 3G, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Networks, O2 |
Thursday, January 12th, 2012
The fact that French ISP Free just began offering its own cellular service is pretty nice, but the realization that it did so by building its very own prepaid network -- rather than simply hopping on a dedicated cellular provider's towers -- is a noteworthy feat. Even more impressive, Free is offering the service, ...
Posted in Mobile Networks, Other News |
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Service for Chinese speakers in Blighty to launch 2012
China Telecom is following through on its promise to launch a UK network in 2012, piggybacking on Everything Everywhere's network for the 400,000 Chinese speakers in the UK.
The virtual network is scheduled to launch in the next three months, and will be ...
Posted in Mobile Networks, Other News |
Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Integrated data connections in tablets along with mobile hotspot connected slates are falling from favor, new research suggests, with WiFi-only use proliferating among owners of iPads and other models. While 60-percent of tablet owners used WiFi only and 5-percent reported some intent of subscribing to a mobile broadband plan within the next ...
Posted in 3G, Computing, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Networks |
Wednesday, November 16th, 2011
We’ve always known that mobile payments would some day come to mobile devices and would shortly thereafter become the dominant form of payment, the question has been when? Today the GSMA, the folks responsible for making sure that the GSM standard works and is interoperable among the roughly 800 operators ...
Posted in Financial, Mobile Networks, Other News |
Monday, November 14th, 2011
O2 has launched its first 4G LTE network in the UK, kicking off a trial of the high-speed service in London that will offer testers up to 100Mbps. The scheme will run for nine months, with 25 sites going live in November and that being ramped up until a total combined area of 40km ...
Posted in 3G, 4G, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Networks, O2 |
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
Ninety-seven per cent of the traffic carried on the Three network is data, according to a company blog posted this afternoon. Do people even make phone calls anymore?
The British Telco angled themselves as a 3G data network when they started in 2003 and that's now one of their big selling points: usually ...
Posted in 3 / Three, 3G, Mobile Broadband, Mobile Internet, Mobile Networks |
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Ofcom juggles warring operators
The UK is trialling 4G technology, while the rest of the world is deploying it, because our regulator hasn't the resources to mediate between operators bleating about the injustice of it all.
Like warring siblings the UK's network operators constantly cry foul, demanding the regulator redress historical grievances ...
Posted in 4G, Mobile Networks, Other News |
Monday, October 10th, 2011
Everything Everywhere getting there
Orange and T-Mobile have extended their joint reach by making it possible for their respective customer bases to use 3G signals from both networks.
When the companies joined forces under the Everything Everywhere banner in 2010, they underwent a "big switch-on" and opened up the 2G channels - voice, basically ...
Posted in 3G, Mobile Networks, Orange, T-Mobile, Virgin Mobile |
