Comments for Mobile Industry Review

Comment on Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry by Ilicco

Ilicco — Mon, 14 May 2012 22:56:00 +0000

so what happens tomorrow? back to £5 / 25mb? i presume

Comment on Bentley Walker satellite broadband internet: Any good? by Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:01:00 +0000

Dear me

Comment on Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry by Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:01:00 +0000

I buy the concept that jumping between timezones could certainly make things rather complicated — so tying it all to the London timezone is fine. Why, then, do I have to pay ‘more’ if I keep using data after midnight?

Shouldn’t I just start another 25mb allowance?

Comment on Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry by Ben Smith

Ben Smith — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:04:00 +0000

Yes – that’s exactly what I was thinking. I thought the ‘£££ per meg’ pricing was only for overages.

Comment on Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry by Ewan

Ewan — Mon, 14 May 2012 12:49:00 +0000

Well exactly. It’s because that 25mb for £5 is tied to midnight in the UK. You’d think that the day would reset wouldn’t you?
Incomprehensible.

Comment on Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry by garethj

garethj — Mon, 14 May 2012 10:28:00 +0000

If your timezone change meant that you lost a few hours of a day, you’d be getting less than 24 hours for the ‘day’ you paid for, and vice-versa. Keeping it in the home timezone does at least mean you pay for consistent blocks of 24 hours (albeit unable to use some of it while on a plane!). I imagine if it swapped with the timezone it could get confusing for both the operator and the customer. Especially if you were hopping between multiple timezones.

Comment on Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry by Ilicco

Ilicco — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:29:00 +0000

Ewan, I don’t get it. Why can’t you just start tomorrows data allowance of 25mb at £5 after midnight? Why the change to £3/mb ?

Comment on New transcription offering makes HulloMail’s voicemail service better than ever by James Whatley

James Whatley — Sun, 13 May 2012 10:18:00 +0000

If this ever hits Windows, I’m in.

Comment on TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service by Ewan

Ewan — Sat, 12 May 2012 21:15:00 +0000

You know what I didn’t know it existed!

Comment on TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service by James Whatley

James Whatley — Sat, 12 May 2012 18:34:00 +0000

So tell me this, how come no one has made the connection between TU, and the Telefonica-owned Spanish social network Tuenti?

Hm.

Comment on Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years by Ewan

Ewan — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Nice one Brett… pleased it’s not just me that likes this concept!

Comment on Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years by Brett

Brett — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:06:00 +0000

I have a Samsung Galaxy S now, new HTC X whatever is out bang I am using it. New one with better AMOLED comes out, move to it.

Comment on Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years by Brett

Brett — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:02:00 +0000

You could even offer a iphone or Android plan and when a new high end Android or iphone device is released your choice you can upgrade at no extra cost. Send back or drop off the old one and move forward to the new one, with all your data being backed to a secure server you spend extra for and the swap is easy and your data securely wiped before handing over the old handset.

Comment on Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years by Brett

Brett — Fri, 11 May 2012 14:00:00 +0000

Totally agree. I would be happy to pay for better data service, so other users watching youtube or something else of little use cannot take the bandwidth I am using to make money or conduct business.

I like the device on rotation idea as well, excellent. They have a lot of work with but seem like many industries to have little interesting in changing business as usual.

Roaming is a big one as well, this one I would be really happy to pay to have good data at the right cost anywhere I go. This cannot be that hard to work out, and device replacement along with it. Would be happy to pay £20 more for this type of service or offer.

Comment on TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service by Ewan

Ewan — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:28:00 +0000

There we go!

Comment on New transcription offering makes HulloMail’s voicemail service better than ever by Ewan

Ewan — Fri, 11 May 2012 13:20:00 +0000

I tried it a few months ago and had ok results — strange given it’s supposed to power Siri.

Comment on TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service by Sérgio Oliveira

Sérgio Oliveira — Fri, 11 May 2012 12:02:00 +0000

This. Or get scaled down to just a pipeline network for others to do it.

Comment on Just how much of a problem is Facebook for the operator industry? by sghosh

sghosh — Fri, 11 May 2012 04:53:00 +0000

just imagine if they were to introduce VOIP service like Skype on their platform, over night they become bigger than skype/ or any telco out their. Most operators do not realize that

Comment on .mobi Auctions – top domains sold to Domain King reseller? by Personal Injury Lawyer

Personal Injury Lawyer — Thu, 10 May 2012 21:19:00 +0000

Domain auctions? Interesting.

Comment on Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years by Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:48:00 +0000

There we go!

Comment on Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years by romanovskis

romanovskis — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:46:00 +0000

1/ Mobile wallet, payday loans and 12mo lease up to a certain limit.
2/ Priority connection to the nearest tower, so that people on cheaper plans get pushed to further towers and pay with their battery life.

Comment on Just signed up for my App World vendor account by Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:33:00 +0000

Garth, you’re a very nice man indeed for saying so.

I’m certainly a BlackBerry Nation citizen and I’m looking forward to seeing what’s next from RIM — good to hear from you!

Comment on Just signed up for my App World vendor account by Garth Simpson

Garth Simpson — Thu, 10 May 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Ewan,
Loving your stuff! I got onto you when you held the camera for Crackberry Kevin. Now I’m checking you daily. Glad your a citizen of BlackBerry Nation!

Comment on TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service by Nick Davies

Nick Davies — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:23:00 +0000

It’ll also allow the operator to see the inter-customer traffic that they wouldn’t otherwise see (e.g. through Skype), which allows them to understand a customer’s social network (in the classic sense), how many people they regularly contact, their frequency of communication, etc. all of which can be very useful in attempting to sell in other products and services (especially if they can use a “loyal” O2 / Movistar customer to “pull” customers of other networks over to their own…)

Comment on TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service by Giff Gfroerer, i2SMS

Giff Gfroerer, i2SMS — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:33:00 +0000

I believe the OTT messaging platforms have a strong place moving forward in the P2P space. Makes a good deal of sense. But now, here in the U.S. where 62% of all Smartphone owners have an unlimited text package, the need for OTT messaging apps may not be as great as say India. For companies wishing to connect to their consumers via text, the OTT platforms don’t make much sense as there are just too many of them out there thus making a sign up page extremely difficult for length.

But let’s just take a quick example. Here in the states a teenager can get a feature phone with unlimited texts with 250 minutes per month for $25 US (15 UK Pounds). That’s not too shabby. Now, what he would have to do is get his friends to all get the same OTT messaging app. Possible, if their was a cost differential. But if they go this route now they have to pay for a data package that starts at $30/month, plus the monthly fees for text and calls… I’m not sure where this fits in right now in the states???

Thoughts?

Giff Gfroerer