Mobile Industry Review - Latest Comments

Re: Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry

Ilicco — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:56:49 -0000

so what happens tomorrow? back to £5 / 25mb? i presume

Re: Bentley Walker satellite broadband internet: Any good?

Ewan — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:01:34 -0000

Dear me

Re: Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry

Ewan — Mon, 14 May 2012 13:01:02 -0000

I buy the concept that jumping between timezones could certainly make things rather complicated -- so tying it all to the London timezone is fine. Why, then, do I have to pay 'more' if I keep using data after midnight?

Shouldn't I just start another 25mb allowance?

Re: Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry

Ben Smith — Mon, 14 May 2012 11:04:04 -0000

Yes - that's exactly what I was thinking. I thought the '£££ per meg' pricing was only for overages.

Re: Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry

Ewan — Mon, 14 May 2012 08:49:32 -0000

Well exactly. It's because that 25mb for £5 is tied to midnight in the UK. You'd think that the day would reset wouldn't you?
Incomprehensible.

Re: Bentley Walker satellite broadband internet: Any good?

Disappointed — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:09:30 -0000

I had Tooway from Bentley Walker and it was a disappointment. The installation process was fraught with problems - all eventually solved but involved a lot of chasing and blame from the installation company that BW didn't know what they were talking about and BW sending me back to the installation company. The speed was also slower than I expected.

Re: Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry

garethj — Mon, 14 May 2012 06:28:37 -0000

If your timezone change meant that you lost a few hours of a day, you'd be getting less than 24 hours for the 'day' you paid for, and vice-versa. Keeping it in the home timezone does at least mean you pay for consistent blocks of 24 hours (albeit unable to use some of it while on a plane!). I imagine if it swapped with the timezone it could get confusing for both the operator and the customer. Especially if you were hopping between multiple timezones.

Re: Look how far we’ve got to go in this industry

Ilicco — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:29:32 -0000

Ewan, I don't get it. Why can't you just start tomorrows data allowance of 25mb at £5 after midnight? Why the change to £3/mb ?

Re: New transcription offering makes HulloMail’s voicemail service better than ever

James Whatley — Sun, 13 May 2012 06:18:51 -0000

If this ever hits Windows, I'm in.

Re: TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service

Ewan — Sat, 12 May 2012 17:15:37 -0000

You know what I didn't know it existed!

Re: TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service

James Whatley — Sat, 12 May 2012 14:34:32 -0000

So tell me this, how come no one has made the connection between TU, and the Telefonica-owned Spanish social network Tuenti?

Hm.

Re: Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years

Ewan — Fri, 11 May 2012 17:35:50 -0000

Nice one Brett… pleased it's not just me that likes this concept!

Re: Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years

Brett — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:06:51 -0000

I have a Samsung Galaxy S now, new HTC X whatever is out bang I am using it. New one with better AMOLED comes out, move to it.

Re: Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years

Brett — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:02:41 -0000

You could even offer a iphone or Android plan and when a new high end Android or iphone device is released your choice you can upgrade at no extra cost. Send back or drop off the old one and move forward to the new one, with all your data being backed to a secure server you spend extra for and the swap is easy and your data securely wiped before handing over the old handset.

Re: Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years

Brett — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:00:42 -0000

Totally agree. I would be happy to pay for better data service, so other users watching youtube or something else of little use cannot take the bandwidth I am using to make money or conduct business.

I like the device on rotation idea as well, excellent. They have a lot of work with but seem like many industries to have little interesting in changing business as usual.

Roaming is a big one as well, this one I would be really happy to pay to have good data at the right cost anywhere I go. This cannot be that hard to work out, and device replacement along with it. Would be happy to pay £20 more for this type of service or offer.

Re: TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service

Ewan — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:28:56 -0000

There we go!

Re: New transcription offering makes HulloMail’s voicemail service better than ever

Ewan — Fri, 11 May 2012 09:20:20 -0000

I tried it a few months ago and had ok results -- strange given it's supposed to power Siri.

Re: TU me: Telefonica’s integrated, smart over-the-top (“OTT”) messaging service

Sérgio Oliveira — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:02:49 -0000

This. Or get scaled down to just a pipeline network for others to do it.

Re: New transcription offering makes HulloMail’s voicemail service better than ever

Hardeep Johal — Fri, 11 May 2012 07:20:17 -0000

I have just downloaded Dragon Dictation for my iPad to see how accurate the technology is. I am really dissapointed, I thought it might be down to my voice so I passed it around the office to test, the results were not good at all. Has anybody else tried it?

Re: Just how much of a problem is Facebook for the operator industry?

sghosh — Fri, 11 May 2012 00:53:44 -0000

just imagine if they were to introduce VOIP service like Skype on their platform, over night they become bigger than skype/ or any telco out their. Most operators do not realize that

Re: .mobi Auctions – top domains sold to Domain King reseller?

Personal Injury Lawyer — Thu, 10 May 2012 17:19:36 -0000

Domain auctions? Interesting.

Re: Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years

Ewan — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:48:07 -0000

There we go! ;-)

Re: Why the UK operators are really screwed: 92% of customers don’t plan on increasing their spend over the next 2-3 years

romanovskis — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:46:37 -0000

1/ Mobile wallet, payday loans and 12mo lease up to a certain limit.
2/ Priority connection to the nearest tower, so that people on cheaper plans get pushed to further towers and pay with their battery life.

Re: Just signed up for my App World vendor account

Ewan — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:33:39 -0000

Garth, you're a very nice man indeed for saying so.

I'm certainly a BlackBerry Nation citizen and I'm looking forward to seeing what's next from RIM -- good to hear from you!

Re: Just signed up for my App World vendor account

Garth Simpson — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:20:56 -0000

Ewan,
Loving your stuff! I got onto you when you held the camera for Crackberry Kevin. Now I'm checking you daily. Glad your a citizen of BlackBerry Nation!