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Bus mobile ticketing to hit the UK

Link: Mobile ticketing on the buses – vnunet.com Bus company Go North East have announced plans to introduce a mobile ticketing service this Autumn. The service, supplied by IT company Atos Origin, will be a prepaid service – with funds being added via a website. Before getting on the bus, the end user texts a [...]

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o2 screws customer for £200+ in mobile data ARSE

Hot news in from an o2 subscriber and regular SMS Text News reader who has been royally screwed by Messrs O and 2. Do you remember a few months back when o2 was being nailed in the press for having an absolutely abysmal data policy? Well, a chap contacted me to say he’d got super [...]

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A trip to the O2 store

I was in London earlier meeting a business colleague, who’s just arrived in the country for a couple of weeks. Rather than pay his horrendously expensive roaming charges, he got hold of an O2 prepay SIM and a top-up card. So far so good. I spoke to him last night and explained how to top-up, [...]

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Hunting for Google’s UK MVNO on the High Street

I went hunting for Google’s UK MVNO this afternoon on London’s High Street (Oxford Street). I popped into three different o2 shops. Nothing. I don’t know what I was thinking. Now and again the mobile geekery inside me overflows into a wanton lust for technical advancement — and in the absence of any decent information [...]

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Google, O2, Nokia and MVNO gossip!

Link: Ring Nokia: Google Phone = MVNO using O2′s network in the UK + Nokia + Google’s secret sauce Gossip gossip.. apparently there’s an announcement due in the next couple of weeks!

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Maggie gets 75meg/month data tariff for 10/month – on o2!

Just got this in from SMS Text News reader, Maggie: Just got 75MB data from o2 for £10 a month, with minimal voice, an 18 month deal. Not sure how interesting this is, but.. Very interesting indeed Maggie! Thanks for taking the time to write. If you’re on o2 and up for renewal shortly, it [...]

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o2, piss-up, brewery, challenges with organisation

Another reader — J — has emailed me to tell me about his trauma with o2′s online ordering system. He’s also been trying to get hold of an 8800 Blackberry. (Shit hot looking, by the way, those.) Have a read of his traumatic experience… I rang up today — AGAIN — and was on hold, [...]

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o2′s online store rumoured to be screwed by ‘a virus’

I had a phone call just now from a rather annoyed potential o2 customer. He’s been waiting a rather long time to get hold of a new 8800 Blackberry on o2. After calling repeatedly only to be told, ‘er, another three days, sorry sir,’ he phoned through to their business store this afternoon and managed [...]

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Virgin Mobile customers are the most satisfied

Link: Virgin Mobile Tops UK Customer Care Report Virgin ranks highest in customer satisfaction for its mobile telephone service in both the pre-pay and contract service sectors, according to a  J.D. Power report. The study, now in its 10th year, measures the customer satisfaction of pre-pay and contract customers with the UK’s leading mobile network [...]

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Blackberry squashed in Europe too?

Link: RIM’s outage spreads to Europe and mid-East Poor old RIM, when it rains it pours. After a ‘non critical’ upgrade a couple of weeks back that left millions of Crackberry users in North America without email service for a few days, the same thing seems to have happened in Europe and the Middle East, according [...]

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DON’T MENTION PER MEG DATA COSTS

That’s what I thought when I bumped into a chap from o2 at the networking evening. Perfectly nice chap. Although I nearly chucked up the glass of water I’d just been drinking when he said he was ‘Data Manager’ for o2 Business. All of a sudden I had to tell myself… BE POLITE, DON’T MENTION [...]

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o2 still screwing customers on mobile data. Idiot customers still paying.

Ah hah…. I was sent this in by the SMS Text News anonymous form yesterday. Good job too as I’ve spent the day on trains, in taxis (but no planes). Check this out — it’s related to what I blogged about a week or so ago. Link: O2 slashes cost of net access to keep [...]

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