Link: Mobile Marketing Magazine: Hotmail and MSN Messenger for 3.
For 3, Christian Salbaing, Managing Director at Hutchison Europe Telecommunications adds:
"3 is committed to providing its customers with the widest choice of communications access platforms. Communications environments and platforms are converging and it is our job to give customers more choice to communicate with each other. 3 is delighted to be working with Microsoft to make this happen."
Excellent coverage at Mobile Marketing Magazine once again.
However, I have this to say on the above quote. Get me in a room with a Hutchison executive. They won’t know what’s hit them. I’ll be right in their face with my Sony Ericsson on ‘3’ asking the executive why I can’t get to the internet from their device. Why make me browse only your approved sites? What POSSIBLE reason could you have to prevent me from PAYING you DATA REVENUES so I can use various mobile services and pages?
Preventing people from accessing the likes of Hotmail or MSN until you get Microsoft to sign a partnering arrangement with you simply doesn’t cut it. Open up your walled garden!
"3 is committed to providing its customers with the widest choice of communications access platforms"
Absolute RUBBISH. Don’t put this stuff out in the public domain if it’s patently not true for me, as a subscriber. They’re providing me the platform and censoring access to only their approved partner sites. The above quote from their MD should read:
"3 is committed to providing its customers with whatever 3 deems appropriate. If there’s a site you’d like to access on your mobile phone, text it to us and we might, possibly, once in a blue moon, add it to our access list. Provided it doesn’t interfere with any ‘strategic’ discussions we’re having with other companies."
Anyway, all my data access revenues that 3 should be getting are being paid to ‘Fresh’ . I got so annoyed with ‘3’ that I went out and got a Sony W550i and a ‘fresh’ pay as you go sim card. Direct unrestricted access to the web. Super!