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Another mobile operator in the UK?

Started by Ewan · 1 year ago

A company called Mapesbury Communications Ltd has announced that it has signed a deal with Spectrum Interactive (UK) for the rights to broadcast a GSM service from payphone kiosks.

It says that this will be the start of a new mobile phone service called UK01. According to Magnus Kelly, the CEO of Mapesbury, the agreement is, [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • Mike42

    1 year ago

    Anyone else fancy a spot of Rabbit hunting?

    They can't even afford to pay for stock images: http://www.uk01.mobi/images/1925940_celltower.jpg

    And "UK01 local mobile phone service is available in a growing number of locations, look for on site UK01 branding and introduction material.

    UK01 services are also available from any telephone even when outside UK01 coverage areas and offers excellent value with full messaging support for both voice and SMS."

    So where can I buy one today, now? "Is Available" means what? It actually *Is Available* now, or in 12 months? or is this just another super example of the mobile industry taking words like Free, Unlimited, Open etc and applying their own definitions? Except UK01 have now redefined present & future.

    Oh, and here's a link to the veritable plethora of people clamouring to deal with the parent company.

    {tumbleweed} was never more appropriate.

    'nuff said.

    Next.
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  • DanLane

    1 year ago

    A plethorasaurus of partners!
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  • Mike42

    1 year ago

    Is this "The Curse Of The Where Rabbit"?
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  • DanLane

    1 year ago

    Hmmm reminds me of something!
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  • Mike42

    1 year ago

    Oh CLASS
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  • Chris

    1 year ago

    This is fascinating... you have to wonder whether Mapesbury have some secret agenda in bringing this to market. If it were April 1st then I'd be convinced.

    Ignoring all the fucked-company signs from the outset (.mobi, the stock photo thing, missing pages, typo'd html, EMEI when they mean IMEI, etc etc etc) the service is clearly rubbish. Presumably with the hope to eventually be able to offer "poor" coverage (rather than none at all), from base stations located on an already diminishing number of vandalism-prone phone boxes. Then you've either got to muck about changing SIMs, or, if you don't want to do that you can instead mess around with the settings on the handset, which amounts to much the same thing; ignoring the fact that they presumably have NO WAY WHATSOEVER to authenticate the handset.

    Sure changing the IMEI of a handset is illegal; but it's also technically trivial.

    Who would fund such a thing?
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  • andrewgrill

    1 year ago

    Patrick, this sounds soooo much like Rabbit

    See http://tinyurl.com/3f8b6h to look at how this was done in the 90's

    Andrew
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  • JamesVincent

    1 year ago

    not really thought it thru have they!
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  • Ricky Chotai

    1 year ago

    now what they really should be doing is if they could link up with truphone, or someone else who has roaming sim cars in place then this may work!
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  • Mark Thomas

    1 year ago

    "Anyone else want to join me hanging around phone boxes to get cheaper calls?"

    Sorry, restraining orders and all that - stupid legal system.

    :)

    M
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  • sonudosanjh

    2 months ago

    i have heard about it that this network make cheap calls i would like to use it
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