I’m doing that pointing thing with my hands at the moment as the Cricket Umpire does when you whack a 6 straight into the stand.  I had a mail this morning from a reader asking me to pass on the contact details of Mr Fix It at Guernsey Telecom — who also do MSISDNs.  In [...]

Link: 3G Picture and Video Messaging for Pre-pay Customers for Life. 3 Ireland, the video mobile network and media company, is again challenging the old networks with a great value offer for messaging, with no hidden penalties. 3′s 5c text, picture and video messaging is the most competitive on the market and is available to [...]

10 years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Jersey underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem – if no one [...]

I was out at a leaving party tonight on the South Bank.  Sat in the bar, I was introduced to Fiona who’s taking over from Sarah (Sarah’s leaving to pursue some business interests in Kosovo of all places — brave girl!).  I was chatting away to Fiona — who, by the way, like all girls [...]

I was doing a search for something and came across Numberstore.com.  I wasn’t immediately looking for a phone number, but now, I am thinking about it — because I found their site so smart and easy to use. Alas you don’t appear to be able to get an 0207 number.  I might get an 0845 [...]

A colleague of mine has been after some MSISDNs from Jersey Telecom for a little while. I recommended them last night, see. We used to use a ton of their services, via another supplier — and Jersey were always phenomenally reliable and fast. So, after hunting around on www.jerseytelecom.com my colleague sent off six emails [...]

I’ve been receiving the Lastminute.com newsletter almost the moment it started all those years ago prior to the heady dotcom days.  This week I spotted a smart ad on it from Vodafone, telling the readers all about their Passport service (75p per call internationally).  Very good ad placement I reckon. You can see it bottom [...]

Link: Guardian Unlimited Business | | Tiscali wants to become a quad player. Tiscali, the internet service provider which, over the weekend, bought British broadband TV company Homechoice, is understood to have held talks with four of the five UK mobile phone networks – 3, O2, T-Mobile and Vodafone – to add a mobile phone [...]

Link: MVNO bubble about to burst in the US? | The Register . Following on from news yesterday of Disney dropping it’s UK MVNO plans… The much hyped bubble in MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) in the US is close to bursting, according to new research from Strategy Analytics.

Link: At home, Japanese access the Web at 1 gigabits per second — 21talks. This one by Nuno is shocking… Now, a reporter of Network World says that both ISPs Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. could provide a 1 gigabits per second fiber-optic Internet access to residential buildings for just $36 per month. An insanely [...]

Link: Telegraph | Money | Vodafone loses crown as world’s biggest mobile group. Vodafone, which for so long has enjoyed the mantle of “the world’s largest mobile phone company”, has been knocked off its pedestal by a rival set up less than seven years ago. The rival is China Mobile. The Vodafone spokesman has done [...]

Link: Cellular outages have nothing to do with terrorism – vnunet.com. Co-incidentally customers of O2′s mobile network around London and the South East of England found themselves with little or no signal. Don’t panic, it wasn’t terrorism. It was Ralph and his team who mistakenly dug up the wrong optical fibre connecting into o2′s Leytonstone [...]