BlykWatch
Last week we posted the last in our fortnightly series, BlykWatch, by Ricky Chotai. Thank you Ricky!
It started off promisingly — and it really did give us a brilliant insight into how the service was working.
Now, though… apart from complaining about the lack of data or the odd weird advert — or having a [...]
Ricky catches us up on a couple week’s worth of Blyk
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Firstly this week’s edition covers the last two weeks of my Blyk usage. Last time I blogged about Blyk I was not impressed, thing were starting to bore me. Well it seems the chaps at Blyk have decided to pull their socks up, they [...]
Firstly I would like to correct my last Blykwatch post. I mentioned that Blyk did not provide PAC codes, I have now found out they do so apologies for my error there.
I returned back to the UK on the 25th of July and after recovering from my jet lag I looked at my Blyk sim [...]
Ewan has been swanning off round the Maldives and Whatley has been playing with his mobile things in the mud at Glastonbury. It’s time for me to take my holiday , however unlike my two colleagues I will not be taking any mobile wizardry with me except my holiday phone (SE W610i) and my [...]
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So who had 7 days before Blyk screwed up for me again?! The dreaded communication’s error is back again! This time everything I have tried (Sim reset, Phone reset and even putting the sim in another phone) and I still get this stupid error! If you want to know more about it read about in [...]
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Yes!! I can honestly say that after about 5 weeks of problems, they all seem to be fixed! Touch Wood!
I will be looking at the adverts I received over the past week later on, however first a few items I picked up from the Blyk Blogs.
The first is that Blyk has announced its sponsorship of [...]
Once again Ricky fills us in with the comings and goings of Blyk
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Blyk SMS Servers are currently down!
Let’s look at the issue of multiple messages, I can now tell you that this issue seems to be resolved for the time being. Over the last month I and the other member’s have had to endure this [...]
For the regular readers of this column you will know the format is generally I discuss anything I want to and then move on to explain and describe my interactions with the adverts BLYK send me. However this week I will not be able to cover the adverts for the last 14 days, this is [...]
Continue ReadingNot what you think.
Ricky, our BlykWatch correspondent, came across this rather smart o2 viral challenge for students. 40 multiple choice questions that you have to answer as soon as possible. Get as many points as you can for your Uni and win a bucketload of iTunes and National Express vouchers.
Here’s the a pic [...]
Ricky is back with his Blykwatch…and he thinks a little C.P.R. is necessary.
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Lifeguard needed to save BLYK
Firstly contrary to what both Ewan and James Whatley promised on the podcast there will be no pictures of me in Speedos and running on the beach. If that’s what you are into check out this YouTube link.
Joking aside, [...]
We interrupt your regularly scheduled SMS Text News reading for this special Blykwatch from Ricky….
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BLYK network problems, 7 days later STILL NOT FIXED!!
I was not due to report for another 7 days however I feel the need to write an update with what is going on with their SMS problems. I first reported the [...]
Ricky’s back again with his Blykwatch update…
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Hola readers
Well this edition was probably going to be pretty boring, a simple update of what messages I received and that’s about it. However, today (Sunday 11th May) has made this edition an interesting one.
Firstly let’s tackle the network problems, currently BLYK’s SMS servers are not working correctly [...]
Blyk watcher Ricky is back once again with what’s been happening the past couple weeks.
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BLYK goes Innovative!
Hello it’s time to update you all on my past two weeks of BLYK watching, at the end of the post two weeks ago , I said I wanted BLYK to be innovative well as you read on [...]
Antti Öhrling, Co-Founder of Blyk, was at the APA conference yesterday discussing the latest advertising trends.
This video is worth a look if you’d like a good introduction to what Blyk, the ad-funded MVNO, is doing. You’ll get some excellent stats (29% response rate!) and some example adverts together with example responses from the [...]
Back once again is Blyk Master Ricky ready to instill his great Blyk wisdom upon us.
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Sunday 16th March 2008
A SMS from MTV Base telling me about some special shows this week! Kind of Cool!
Monday 17th March 2008
Firstly a MMS informing me of that the band Operator Please (I still have never heard of [...]
Time to catch up with our Blykwatcher Ricky Chotai. He’s starting to get a little bored of Blyk when nothing is happening, but will there be light at the end of the tunnel? Read on to find out…
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Firstly apologies another quite short post, again been very busy and to be honest nothing much is going [...]
This week’s BlykWatch from Ricky Chotai covers a lot of ground. Let’s jump right in (I’m going to comment inline):
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Monday 18th February 2008
No brand messages today, so I thought I would try something new, twitter. I saw that the blog had an item about it so I signed up with my [...]
Ricky Chotai’s back with another BlykWatch column charting his experience of UK ad-funded MVNO, Blyk. This week, amongst other things, Ricky points out that Blyk’s ‘free texts and calls’ model is missing what many youngsters are now demanding: data.
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Monday 11th February 2008
A brand message from Blyk Music today, letting [...]
The first BlykWatch diary posted last week has been very well received, judging by the phenomenal response from a wide array of readers. I agree with reader, Tom, who emailed in saying that it’s excellent to ‘get an insider look into the service’. Since you can’t easily join Blyk (most analysts, investors and [...]
Continue ReadingRicky Chotai, our BlykWatch columnist, wasn’t due to report in until next week’s scheduled update — however we interrupt today’s regularly featured content to bring you this BlykWatch missive.
Ricky reports that Blyk appears to have suffered some manner of service interruption. There’s nothing about the issue on the Blyk blog or the Blyk press [...]
I’ve been following Blyk, the UK (and soon to be international) advertising-based MVNO for a long time — ever since it was a glint in the milkman’s eye — or, more precisely, ever since news of it publicly broke a long time ago.
I did a count last week — I routinely get about 10 [...]
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