Link: Vodafone says VoIP is ‘expensive’ and ‘unsafe’ | The Register Another day, another crap reason from a mobile operator for not allowing VOIP on their network and/or handsets. This time, it’s Vodafone. Vodafone is telling customers that VoIP services are insecure – even as Sky News is reporting that VoIP calls threaten our war [...]
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Voda really screws up mobile web
Saw this on the Mobile Monday London mailing list earlier. First the technical version (the original was written by Geoff Ballinger on the list). Vodafone UK upgraded their mobile internet gateways for pay-monthly customers last night. If your site is not explicity registered with Vodafone as a ‘mobile’ site, the returned useragent is “Mozilla/5.0 (X11; [...]
Vodafone losses down but still not great at £5.43billion
Loss narrows at Vodafone Group – International Herald Tribune Despite posting a second consecutive year of staggering losses, Vodafone Group on Tuesday forecast strong growth in emerging markets and was bullish about 2008, sending its shares to a five-year high. The company, a European mobile phone giant, said it had a net loss of £5.43 [...]
Is Premium SMS dead? (part 1)
It’s been a rough old ride for the world of premium SMS of late. What with the numerous scandals involving TV channels, Vodafone having a couple of overcharging problems, ICSTIS adjudications and fines on the increase and public trust in the industry at an all time low, I’m wondering whether this is the end of [...]
Vodafone mobile TV redefines mass audience as 15
BBC NEWS | Technology | Mobile TV predicted to be a hit Being rather sad, I was thumbing through the BBC News website over the weekend on my mobile whilst enjoying a nice cup of tea and breakfast in bed. This story caught my eye, and I meant to blog about it – but forgot til [...]
BBC talks to Truphone about N95 VOIP woes
Link: Truphone Blog – Internet telephony on Nokia mobile phones James Tagg, Truphone’s founder today appeared on BBC Radio 4′s You and Yours consumer affairs programme to discuss the controversy caused by some operators disabling internet telephony on the Nokia N95 Wicked. You can have a listen to the interview here.
More Vodafone overcharging rumours
Remember that company that I blogged about a few days ago? The one that the first part of the word rhymes with ‘yoda’, and the second part is a misspelling of ‘phone’? With me? Good. Well, I’ve just heard something interesting on the anonymous tips grapevine. And sod it, in the interest of free speech [...]
Just don’t mention the V word..
Link: Network Operators Trying to Restrict Hyperlinks to their Websites Here’s an interesting story, courtesy of Cellular News. The “blogosphere” has been buzzing about a legal statement on the Cingular website which restricts how people are allowed to create a weblink from their website to the Cingular website. As we have bookmarked the press pages [...]
Vodafone to charge more for VOIP from June
Link: Vodafone’s new pricing model excludes VoIP and P2P | The Register So you’re the proud owner of a Nokia N95 connected to Vodafone, and want to use something like Truphone, or another VOIP client. You’ve already read the bad news that in their infinite wisdom Vodafone have decided you don’t want to use VOIP [...]
What went wrong with Vodafone Live? It’s dire
You know that surgeon I mentioned in the other post? Well, he was showing me Vodafone Live on his Nokia. It’s an ultra modern handset, but a shit browser. I think it’s a 6200 series, or similar. Anyway, he wanted to show me how to get on to Google from it. Here were my instructions: [...]
Vodafone explains N95 crippling | The Register
Vodafone explains N95 crippling | The Register It’s been a busy few days around these parts, so we’ve kind of picked up on this a bit late. If you’ve missed it being reported on other sites, the story goes something like this. On Wednesday this week, The Register broke the news that Orange and Vodafone are [...]
Vodafone Hartlepool: Unlimited calls, unlimited texts, any handset, £40/mth?
See this picture? This is what actually drew me into the Vodafone shop last week to enquire about the Nokia N95. I actually thought Vodafone must have released a new service plan that I hadn’t heard about. Unlimited calls? WOW! Unlimited texts? Oh now that is cool. Previously this sort of thing had only really [...]
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