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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Mobile Video Optimisation: Time for a new era?
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 [...]
Fundamentally depressed: It’s almost 2012 and data roaming costs still suck
Strolling through the streets of New York this evening on the way back to the hotel from a meeting I took a look at my BlackBerry and saw the familiar wind-up text from Vodafone. The message reads: Just to let you know, you’ve used over 3MB of data which has cost you £3 per MB [...]
An expensive example of Three’s stupid data policies
This is one of those posts that’s about to get really, really popular across the mobile operator community. I know this, because previous ones on similar subjects have phenomenally high readership rates from the various operator areas such as Newbury, Maidenhead, Slough and so on. And executives call me about them too. It is with [...]
Got Android? Go abroad? Get Onavo to avoid being hosed
If you’re an Android user and you roam regularly, you have probably experienced the ‘what-the?’ moment at least once in recent memory. That’s the moment you realise that the paltry 25mb you’ve been given for your day’s worth of roaming mobile data adds up to about 20 minutes worth of heavy using on an Android [...]
Standby to upgrade your Three MiFi
My Three MiFi unit is a business critical tool for me. Routinely, WiFi hotspots are so SHIT that I simply have to rely on my MiFi unit for connectivity. Three’s data network is amongst the best in the business — and the MiFi unit is a brilliant way of unlocking that for all your connectivity [...]
Is your Vodafone Glasgow 3G data not working either?
The capacity crunch is well and truly biting for Vodafone in Glasgow it seems. Reader Squawkbox tweeted today asking if I knew anyone on the network side at Vodafone to help out. I have been thinking carefully — alas, I’m not sure I do. I wonder. If you’re reading, and you manage Vodafone’s data network [...]
Vodafone’s marketing SMS leaves me clueless
So last week I was having a good time with Vodafone. This morning I got this comparatively useless text to let me know that ‘prices are changing’. This is really good — a text update, I will obviously read it — but the call-to-action? Visit some site that isn’t even linkable from my phone browser? Who [...]
Would you pay €2 to use Facebook on the beach?
So here’s a question for you. I’d like you to have a wee look at this video and see what you think of the concepts demonstrated. I came across it in the ‘Demo Lab’ area at MACH Insights 2011. It’s showing off a MACH product by the name of the Data Roaming Engine which enables [...]
The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 5: Informa
The Data Capacity Crunch In the fifth and final part of a series of Amdocs-sponsored interviews addressing the impact of the mobile data capacity crunch, we talk to Dario Talmesio, senior analyst at Informa, about sender-pays data, tiered data pricing and more. This series is jointly produced with the talented people at Mobile Entertainment magazine‘s [...]
The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 4: Nokia & RIM
The Data Capacity Crunch In the fourth of a series of Amdocs-sponsored interviews addressing the impact of the mobile data capacity crunch, we talk to Sanyu Kiruluta, head of developer relations at RIM EMEA, and Rupert Englander, head of services & marketing at Nokia UK. This series is jointly produced with the talented people at [...]
The Data Capacity Crunch, Part 3: Amdocs
The Data Capacity Crunch In the third of a series of interviews addressing the impact of the mobile data capacity crunch, we talk to Nick East, General Manager of OSS at Amdocs, about growth in demand, traffic types and management strategies. Over to Nick: This series is jointly produced with the talented people at Mobile [...]
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