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£25 ‘admin charge’ to change your price plan on Three UK?

£25 ‘admin charge’ to change your price plan on Three UK?

I had a series of mails in today from an apoplectic Three UK user. He’s a good friend and I regularly go-on about Three to him whilst he’s patiently gritted his teeth. He’s a reluctant fan of Three at the best of times. He phoned up Three this afternoon to change his price plan. He [...]

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Three X-Series: No charges for Skype when roaming on Three networks

Link: xseries: X-Series Answers 10 As of January 2007 3 no longer charges for any use of the Skype service when on any of the 3 operating company networks worldwide. This is part of the 3 Like Home initiative which applies to all of 3′s services when 3 UK customers are roaming on other 3 [...]

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Why mobile operators need to have blog relations

Have a read of Mark’s post here — he’s managed to get his Slingbox working with his X-Series handset. I need to have a go at doing this. Still haven’t got round to getting a slingbox! Mark had a few technical issues which, as he explains, were resolved by Darren of the X-Series blog. Without [...]

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Meeting Frank Sixt and Doug Hamilton of Three

Meeting Frank Sixt and Doug Hamilton of Three

In answer to my earlier blog post, this afternoon I was at the Hutchison HQ – ‘Hutchison House’, in Battersea. Normally I get a nosebleed if I go anywhere near south of the Thames, but I’m ok if, as you see in the picture to the right, I can still see the water Why was [...]

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T-errible T-Mobile UK experience

Martin Geddes over at Telepocalypse has been having a series of bad days with T-Mobile UK. His experience is documented at his post, T-Stuck First problem: they can’t provision T-Mobile Hotspot access at the same time as the rest of the account. You need to call back after you’re a customer. Wonder how many abandoned [...]

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Vodafone to launch Three-style video portal service

Link: Vodafone to launch mobile video portal, reward most-viewed Think of it as YouTube for your phone, with a Google twist. Vodafone is poised to launch a video upload-and-view service that will allow customers who have camera-enabled mobiles to upload MMS or WAP videos the Vodafone Live portal, for viewing by one and all I’m [...]

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Three X-Series Hong Kong advert

Stefan correctly guessed that I would love this ad: Nice one Stefan!

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Three UK thumbs up from Justin of BuddyPing

Justin is top dog at NinetyTen, the company behind the likes of BuddyPing. On his personal blog yesterday he waxed lyrical on Three. This is particularly exciting because Justin knows his stuff. He’s a total geek and a total mobile know-all. For him to be complimentary is excellent for Three. Says a lot. Link: The [...]

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Three UK — use your inclusive minutes on 3 networks abroad

Three UK — use your inclusive minutes on 3 networks abroad

I wrote in a previous entry that I wasn’t sure if Three UK were also supporting this ‘Three at Home’ service, where you can use your inclusive minutes abroad. Well, John Burton just posted a note to say that it’s advertised right there on the Three UK homepage! I’m blind! Here’s the text from the [...]

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Three X-Series – scanned in the bill

Three X-Series – scanned in the bill

For those interested in how X-Series looks on the bill, I scanned in the relevant page. It’s rather gratifying seeing ’77′ million bytes of data and then a £0.00 next to it.

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Three X-Series — my bill arrived today

Three X-Series — my bill arrived today

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Three UK’s Mobilcast is a piece of GENIUS

Three UK’s Mobilcast is a piece of GENIUS

Mobilcast is Three UK’s podcast-to-your-mobile service and is part of their X-Series offering. I’m extremely impressed. Mega impressed. You’ll note that this doesn’t happen often. Generally speaking, I’m left dumbstruck at some silly strategy or the like (Vodafone’s me-too on broadband, Orange’s unlimited data, but only at 2am on a third Tuesday of each month, [...]

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