Watching the Vodafone quarterly results Webcast this week, a few things fell into place for me. The announcement that Vodafone was to scrap roaming charges in some countries for three months started to make more sense.

Initially, I thought including roaming calls in ordinary bundled minutes was a smart reaction to regulators’ complaints about the cost [...]

It’s struck me in the last month or so that the prepaid phone market in Europe is undergoing a big change — and it’s not a positive one. It was widely assumed the prepaid segment would benefit from an economic downturn as people watched their monthly spending and downgraded to lower-priced handsets. However, the recession [...]

LG’s KS360 hits the high street in the UK this month with a price tag that I think will ignite sales of qwerty phones to consumers. The phone (pictured on the left) comes in a choice of three finishes — blue, pink and black — that will appeal to younger users. The phone packs in [...]

There’s been a lot of talk recently about a “credit crunch” and even an impending meltdown of the economy. Things are certainly getting tougher: the German economy shrank for the first time in four years last quarter, and in the UK, the Bank of England recently warned that up to 2 million people could be [...]

On 2 September Nokia announced it will launch its first Comes With Music phone in the UK. Carphone Warehouse has secured an exclusive deal to offer the Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone on a prepaid tariff some time in the fourth quarter.
If I’m honest, I was disappointed when I read Nokia’s press release this morning. Comes [...]