Tag: carriers
Following on from a reported 15% rise in annual profits to £3.03bn, BT has announced plans to invest £6bn in faster broadband and mobile services over the next three years. The company plans to offer their “ultrafast” broadband to 12 million premises by 2020. With speeds of 300 …
Time for a quick round-up on which networks will be picking up the Samsung Galaxy S4. Now, if I’m a betting man, I’d put £10 on all of the networks picking it up, but here’s how things stand currently.. T-Mobile T-Mobile have stated that they will carry the …
I’m worried, and I’ll tell you why. Back in 2002 Microsoft emailed me after reading some of the stuff I’d put on the web. The first Microsoft Smartphones were hitting the market and I’d added some critical but constructive posted about it. They respected this, and they wanted …
OK, so after finding out that most of you still wear a watch we wanted to ask you another question. MVNO’s, or “Mobile virtual network operators”, piggy-back off one of the “major” networks and have been gained popularity over the last few years. Most people will be aware …
UK network Three have updated their amazing price package called 'The One Plan' today and this has to be the ultimate deal for heavy users and those of us who love to use data and not want to worry about fair use policies. The word 'Unlimited' has bee...
Three have anounced their Samsung Galaxy S FroYo update. They've apologised for issues earlier in the week and state that the new Android 2.2 update can now be downloaded via the Samung "Kies" application. The update also includes the ability to se...
A few weeks back we spotted that the HTC Desire Z had appeared on the Orange website. We were told shortly after that the phone wasn't actually coming to Orange and it was merely a support page for those using the handset on the Orange network. Top ...
The annual International Communications Market report from Ofcom is out today. It reveals that, amongst the countries surveyed, the UK has seen the highest rise in smartphone ownership since 2009 with a 70% jump. Over a quarter of people in the UK (26...
Customers on Vodafone UK who are on £40 or over price plans will get an added bonus now of getting 25MB a day free data roaming in certain EU countries as from 1st December. Before now on these plans Vodafone gave you 5MB so this extra dat...
A short announcement from Three has confirmed that they will also be offering "purchase options" for iPad users. They state that these will include.. “..more affordable prices when purchased with a data service plan, for iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G m...
It looks like network Three is so confident in it's own 3G network now that it has hit 97% they are starting to switch off roaming onto the 2G network supplied by Orange. There is no confirmation if this has anything to do with the Everything Ev...
If you are a mobile phone user looking for a Business contract and the new Omnia 7 has got you interested then check out this amazing deal on offer with T-Mobile. If you sign up to 24 months at £35 a month on a 'Business Unlimited' plan you …
If you've requested it then you may start seeing network names like this showing up on your phone. From what we can see it seems that you get "Orange T-Mobile" when you cross over from Orange to T-Mobile and "T-Mobile Orange" when you're a T-Mobile cu...
So today, according to the Everything Everywhere announcement Orange and T-Mobile customers should be able to browse across both networks after registering on the links below. It's currently "voice only" but you'll get data roaming soon too. “Fr...
On Wednesday we covered the HTC Event. Although WiFi was available, the weight of several hundred journalists pretty much killed it. Luckily I had a laptop with a Three Pay As You Go SIM card in. However, Three have now boosted their Top-ups now inclu...
Don't ask me why, but today I've stumbled across a few historical items about mobile networks and their development here in the UK. There were a number of successes and failures along the way, with this BBC news item looking at Mercury Communications....
Three have just announced that they too will be carrying the Galaxy Tab. The Android Tablet will be hitting the 3G network soon, with 1GB of data available for £7.50 or 5GB for £15. There's also three voice packages to choose from, including SIM...
The Orange and T-Mobile networks will merge on October 5th but, due to the amount of handsets, you'll at first have to sign-up to be part of the new shared network. This, we presume, is because some phones may have been heavily tested for T-Mobile but...
Orange have just enabled their new crystal-clear HD Voice service. It's the first network to do it and available at no extra cost to their customers. The system, which reduces background noise and adds a clearer voice quality, is only available on cer...
T-Mobile have just added an update for T-Mobile Pulse owners. It's .. not good news unfortunately and they're stating that some customers have experienced problems with the Android 2.1 update. They've pulled the update and expect to have a fixed versi...
Orange have responded to the data network issues we reported on yesterday. PR Manager, Conor Maples, has apologised to everyone affected by the outage and stated that..&ldquoFurther to some data access problems witnessed on our network yesterday, we c...
A quick note for anyone using Orange today. There seems to be a problem with the data network. Orange say that they're working on it and currently I've got no data access at all. Chris Merriman has emailed in to say.. “It's been playing up since...
Today Ofcom revealed that 45% of our waking hours are spent watching TV, using our mobile phone or other communications devices. Peter Phillips, Ofcom Partner, Strategy & Market Developments, stated.. “Increasingly, mobile devices – especially...
I did a speed test with the speedtest.net Android application last night. I tend to take results like this with a pinch of salt, but it seems that - even on full-blown HSDPA, I was roughly getting 512Kbps up and 512Kbps down. This compared to my 12Mbp...
Gah - can open, worms everywhere. The complaints about the new Vodafone HTC Desire update seem to have exploded all over the Vodafone forums with the moderators hurriedly editing posts from customers and stating that ... “We customise phone so...
Still using a Hero and Android 1.5? Chances are you're with Three and they'd like to apologise for the delay in providing the Android 2.1 update. Following a truck-load of negative comments in their blog the network released a statement stating.. &ldq...
With cheap Android devices like the Vodafone 845 entering the market it's hardly surprising that other networks are about to do the same. Orange are prepping a "Project JAL" device which will be own-branded and is believe to be based on the ZTE Blade,...
Another roadmap leak, this time from T-Mobile USA, has turned up some gems. The Motorola CHARM is up there, which we knew about already, plus there's a "HTC Vanguard" coming in September and a "HTC Emerald" in November. Both of these HTC devices are b...
Back in February Orange launched a roaming data plan to try and reduce the "post holiday phone bill shock" that many of us have experienced. New rules have now kicked in to add a €50 (£41 excluding VAT) cut-off when using your phone for data abroad...
Three have announced a new phone tariff called the "One Plan". Ofcom have proposed lower mobile termination fees and this has meant that Three can offer much cheaper calls. The new plan includes the following monthly allowances.. 2000 "Any network" mi...
Following news just yesterday that o2 are to ditch unlimited data, it seems that Orange may be about to do the same. Mobile Magazine have news that we could all kinda see coming.. "Industry commentators had predicted that operators would no longer be ...
Let's face it. "Unlimited" internet doesn't exist. Even when an ISP or mobile network says, "unlimited internet" you'll probably find a tiny paragraph at the bottom that mentions a fair usage policy and possibly some blocked ports or traffic shaping. ...
The dinky little Sony Ericsson X10 Mini is now available on 3UK. You can grab it for a mere £15 per month on a 2 year plan and that includes 100 minutes / texts or any mix plus unlimited internet. We first saw the X10 Mini in February …
We've got further details on the HTC Wildfire on T-Mobile. Following our earlier story T-Mobile have now confirmed pricing - it'll be available for £20 per month on a 24-month contract, which is pretty cheap indeed. The full press release mentions th...
We were first to break news of the Wildfire coming to Virgin Media and now, a day later, T-Mobile have also stepped up to say that they'll be carrying it too. There's not long to wait either, with the device dropping into T-Mobile shops from June 14th...
Virgin Media have, literally 2 minutes ago, revealed that they will offer the Wildfire. The network, which is a virtual mobile-network operator here in the UK, has been grabbing a number of Android handsets recently and do a lot of competitively price...
Three have had a bit of an image change and seem to be determined to get the latest phones onto their network. They've got a great range of Android phones in their shop at the minute, including the HTC Desire, HTC Hero, Samsung Galaxy Portal and the S...
Back in Barcelona we witnessed the launch of the HTC Smart. It's an entry-level device to get more people using the HTC interface and interested in smartphones. Hopefully the people buying the Smart will be moving onto Android or Windows Phones furthe...
No, it's not "T-Orange", "OrMobile" or "TOM", the name for the Orange and T-Mobile joint venture is "Everything Everywhere". The press release is below and details the merger of the two companies and the teams. The switch-over will happen on July 1st ...
Some interesting news which was just found tonight and is sending shockwaves through gadget fans in the UK is that from 1st June 2010, Vodafone will change the conditions on charging for data use on mobile phones. At present all phones with exception ...
