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o2 is eating it’s own dog food with “Joined Up People” enterprise offering

By on January 9, 2012 in Operators

Kudos to o2 Enterprise. The team specialises in helping enterprise organisations embrace flexible working. Instead of simply knocking out a few whitepapers, the company has taken a different path. It’s embraced the flexible working ethos itself! Here’s a quote from their story [PDF]: We’ve been on a journey. We’ve saved millions. We use hundreds fewer desks. We’ve changed [...]

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Telefonica Digital is heading to Regent Street

By on January 9, 2012 in Operators

I think the Telefonica Digital team are winning when it comes to office locations. You’ve got most of Vodafone and Everything Everywhere camped out at Paddington whilst — as far as I know — 3 still dominates the Maidenhead skyline. Yeah: Telefonica guys, you’ve won out. Being based at the bottom of Regent Street right [...]

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Is Netflix about to be a real problem for the UK’s mobile operators?

By on January 9, 2012 in Operators

I signed up for Netflix this morning after reading Matt’s post over at The Next Web. It’s just £5.99 a month. I’ve used the service in the States a few times and was very impressed. Today’s UK launch is rightly generating a lot of excitement — and given there’s a 1-month free trial (you do [...]

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Should the UK move to make handsets unlocked — like Chile has done?

By on January 6, 2012 in Operators

The one key benefit of handset subsidies is that it does make the decision a lot easier or cheaper than it would otherwise ordinarily be. I’m certain that — from one point of view — handset subsidy has been highly beneficial to the evolution of the wireless industry in the UK. However — and it’s [...]

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New Year: Did you experience iMessage fail? Our reader in HK did!

By on January 5, 2012 in Devices, Operators

Have a read of this quick report from reader Jay in Hong Kong. One of his friends Dan posted this note on a social media group: It’s the first new year’s eve since the launch of iMessage. Will Apple’s servers hold up? Can they teach the MNOs a thing or two about scaling? History suggests [...]

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XCom Global now offers unlimited MiFi usage for $14.95/day in 195 countries

By on January 4, 2012 in Devices, Operators, Services

I have to say I’m sorely tempted to try out XCom Global’s latest offering. They can now offer you unlimited data via MiFi (or USB stick) for a thoroughly reasonable $14.95 per day across a phenomenal 195 countries (up from 67 previously). There’s no charge for the equipment and delivery is (generally free if you [...]

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The lunacy of my iPhone churning escapades with 3

By on December 22, 2011 in Operators

I have been banging on about leasing or renting phones for some time. I very much believe that the marketplace is going to need to evolve to address the hardware dating issue. For me, anyway. I’ve had my iPhone 4 from 3 for 16 months and it’s on a 24-month contract. The new iPhone 4S [...]

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You can only lease 16GB and 32GB iPhone 4S devices from o2

By on December 22, 2011 in Devices, Operators

Quite a few people have been asking about my experience leasing an iPhone from o2 the other day (here’s my post about my intent to do so). Alas I didn’t manage to do so. Here’s the overview: I sat down with Ronnie at the o2 store in Richmond-Upon-Thames on Tuesday afternoon. When I arrived into [...]

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Are Britain’s mobile operators too busy tweeting to actually sell anything? [Or: Are their Social CRM systems really this rubbish?]

By on December 20, 2011 in Operators

One of the bullet points on my todo list this morning was: Get a new iPhone 4S. I’ve procrastinated enough. Now I need to actually do something about it. It’s time I owned an iPhone 4S instead of playing with test devices. I have accounts on all the UK networks: Everything Everywhere, Three, Vodafone and [...]

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‪Mobile Video Optimisation: Time for a new era? ‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬

By on December 16, 2011 in Operators, Services

Noam Green from Mobixell caught my recent post about the data capacity crunch and sent in this contribution as a response — along with an infographic (at the bottom). Over to Noam: – – – – – Current approaches to mobile network and content optimisation will fail to address the real requirements of managing the [...]

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Orange: Free XBOX 360 when you buy a Nokia Lumia 800

By on November 21, 2011 in Devices, Operators

Have you been hearing about this deal from Orange? It’s been capturing the imaginations of quite a few normob (“normal mobile user”) friends and family. I’ve overheard people discussing it multiple times a day so — anecdotally at least — it’s certainly gathering a lot of attention. Here’s the offer: If you upgrade to the [...]

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Pocketapp open their office in Bombay.

By on November 16, 2011 in News, Operators, Opinion, Services

I have the pleasure of being in Mumbai this week. Despite the fact it takes anything from 1 to 2 and a half hours to get *anywhere* in a cab, it’s a very cool place. People are really in to mobile here, I’ve seen a lot more smartphones, particularly iPhone and BlackBerry. There are a [...]

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