I was contacted today by a researcher from a leading UK television show hunting for people who’ve had a bad experience with SMS/Text spam. Have you been bombarded with unwanted SMS? Has it forced you to complain to your operator — or even change your phone number? Did it end up costing you a lot [...]
MMS NOT INCLUDED – a classic operator mistake?
In the first of his columns, regular Mobile Industry Review reader Neil Ramsay gets stuck into multimedia messaging. Over to you Neil: – – – – – Remember when you were a kid, rushing excitedly down the stairs on Christmas morning to unwrap and play with your newest toy only to be reduced to a [...]
Operator Innovation: Let me access my SMS everywhere?
Hello dear reader, it’s me again with another Operator Innovation post. The series has been terrifically well received — thank you once more to all the executives from around the industry who’ve complemented us. And hello to the chaps from o2 Innovation who, almost every week, point out that they’re working on something very similar. [...]
What’s the best SMS IT support alerting system?
What does everyone use to send SMS alerts to employees for things like server alerts, planned downtime, that sort of scenario? Do you go to an SMS provider, buy the credits and then make your own sending system (or hook in to their API)? Or do you use the gateway provider’s sometimes rather rubbish system [...]
Part 4, Andy Munarriz of HulloMail
The Future of Voicemail I’ve been getting emails from people wondering when the next episode in the Future of Voicemail Series was going live. Tah dah! It’s here. Episode 4 features the co-founder of HulloMail, Andy Munarriz. Andy’s no stranger to Mobile Industry Review — indeed we first interviewed him on camera about two years [...]
Mobile messaging to be worth $88 billion
New statistics out on how much we love our mobile messaging (guess what? It’s a lot) from the analysts over at Strategy Analytics. According to them, the world will be spending $88 billion on messaging by 2012 – that’s 15 percent up on 207 – and while text messaging will still make up the lion’s [...]
Motorola still suffering as sales keep sinking
It looks like things are getting worse before they get better chez Motorola. It’s just put out the latest set of results for its mobile devices division and there’s all the bad news expected plus a bit more for good measure – sales were down 39 percent year-on-year, losses were up and the company sold [...]
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- Am I the only person in the UK that would pay a concierge fee to an operator? January 17, 2012
- Watch how this one plays out: o2 sending mobile numbers to every website you visit January 25, 2012
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T-Mobile’s Full Monty price plan: Unlimited everything — it’s brilliant and it’s the way ahead
January 30, 2012
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Trying DaaS on my iPad — it really does rock
January 31, 2012
- Operators: “Please stop using our network!” (“And, er, thanks for your money!”) February 14, 2012
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Would you like to spend $1,100 on a Cisco Cius or $399 on an iPad?
February 13, 2012
- Is Nokia’s rehabilitation in the Western Media complete? February 13, 2012
- MEF Americas 2011: Recapping the Event February 10, 2012
- Have you see what o2′s been doing with their #o2Cupid campaign? February 9, 2012
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