I’m always surprised when I find an operator that doesn’t do PAYG data. The very nice yet very firm lady in the Orange store — to whom I was trying to give my business — explained that this was absolutely impossible. Those Americans I’d bumped into with their bags? Turns out they’d obviously bought PAYG [...]

With tens of thousands of international delegates due to arrive into Barcelona today and tomorrow for Mobile World Congress, the Orange and Movistar shops I’ve walked into are doing brisk data sim business. I just bumped into three MWC chaps from Chicago at the Orange shop just off one of the main squares. They were [...]

Continuing my look at the local MWC marketing efforts of the global mobile giants, on the way out from the airport baggage claim, a nice lady from Etisalat handed me this fancy show guide. For a moment, I thought it was a SIM card — that would have been very cool — but the guide [...]

So that’s me arrived in Barcelona and I’m now waiting for my baggage at carousel 14. A few minutes ago, a bunch of Samsung ladies dressed in branded blouses and blue skirts arrived with a ton of marketing boxes as illustrated. They’ve placed them on the baggage carousel so everyone from the flight (mostly mobile [...]

I’m already seeing tweet after tweet of people seriously criticising the Nokia-Microsoft news this morning. Phrases like ‘jumping off a burning platform into a sinking ship’, or, ‘Nokia is dead’, for example. Nokia was dead as far as the market was concerned. The market demanded immediate moves to address this — and, frankly speaking, the [...]

And here’s the money one … Begin forwarded message: From: Nokia Press Services <press.services@nokia.com>Date: 11 February 2011 07:36:38 GMTTo: Nokia E-mail subscribers <press.services@nokia.com>Subject: NOKIA – Nokia provides financial targets and forecasts linked to new strategyReply-To: press.services@nokia.com     Nokia provides financial targets and forecasts linked to new strategy Nokia CorporationStock exchange releaseFebruary 11, 2011 at [...]

And the next one … Begin forwarded message: From: Nokia Press Services <press.services@nokia.com>Date: 11 February 2011 07:34:03 GMTTo: Nokia E-mail subscribers <press.services@nokia.com>Subject: NOKIA – Nokia outlines new strategy, introduces new leadership, operational structureReply-To: press.services@nokia.com     Nokia outlines new strategy, introduces new leadership, operational structure Nokia Corporation Stock exchange release February 11, 2011 at 09.45 [...]