Amid the gloom of the economic crisis, the issuance of 3G licences in China has caused many telecom executives' eyes to light up with dollar signs, despite the challenges presented ...
Cheaper Roaming’s Part of a Bigger Picture at Vodafone
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 ...
Tesco’s New Telecoms Centres May Herald Shift into Mobile Broadband
On 21 April 2009, UK supermarket chain Tesco confirmed it would increase its Telecoms Centre outlets from 41 to 100 by January 2010. The centres are stand-alone departments within larger ...
Last week I spent a few days in Italy catching up with friends and visiting relatives. As you'd expect, I ate and drank well. When I wasn't at the dinner ...
I'm off to a wedding this weekend, and it's prompted me to think about hitching hardware and software. Let’s rewind back to 1998. The Nokia 5110, shown on the right, ...
I expected to see more Android devices at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, and was disappointed that Vodafone's Magic phone was the only major announcement in this area. ...
I have to admit this won't be the first — or last — blog post about a backlash against touch-screen phones. I've lost count of the number of articles I've ...
Over the weekend I picked up a Polaroid Pogo printer. In the UK, O2 is selling them for half price, making them much more attractive than when they cost almost ...
Imagine a world where you were charged for every e-mail, voice call, every instant message, every Web page. Or a world where you had a set limit for these things, ...