Posts Tagged ‘glasgow’

We’re going to Paris, Berlin, Munich, Barcelona, Marseille, Warsaw, Prague… And Glasgow

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

That’s the plan, anyway.

Over the next few months I’m aiming taking the MIR Show crew to various cities across Europe to track what’s moving in the industry on a localised basis.

We plan to do some mini Unlimited Drinks in each city along with an array of interviews and editorial pieces (both video, audio and text).

As a result we’re hunting for people and companies to profile in each city, particularly if you’re a mobile developer, mobile marketing specialist or if you’re working in and around mobile.

I’d also appreciate your suggestions for people and companies that you rate as AAA* ‘Shit-Hot’ that we should be meeting and telling the planet about. Our schedule isn’t fixed yet so I’m really keen to try and find out who we should be meeting — so that if there are bunch of geniuses in, for example, Budapest, then we’ll try to include that in our itinerary.

Will you email me or post here on the site if you’ve got some suggestions?

As always, I’m ewan@mobileindustryreview.com.

Vodafone cuts dropped calls for Virgin Trains

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Virgin Trains has set its sights on tackling dropped calls for passengers and has teamed up with Vodafone to give travelers better in-carriage coverage . Vodafone said it will be putting in “repeater technology” in the trains to boost both 2G and 3G coverage.

The repeaters will be installed on all 52 of Virgin’s Pendolino trains on the London to Glasgow route by November of this year, and Vodafone says it will improve the rate of dropped calls by 60 percent.

Having attempted to use a data card several times on the Eurostar and found a frightening drop out rate, here’s hoping the repeaters find themselves passing through the Channel Tunnel sometime soon.


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