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The EU has ended the days of mobile roaming rip-offs

July 3, 2009

In the days when there were hundreds of mobile companies around the world, one could understand that each company paid the other for any calls and data use on the host’s network used by visiting customers and that this might lead to higher call charges.

But today many of Europe’s mobile operators are owned by one of a small number of groups. Locally they may act as separate companies but at the very top they’re part of a single pan-Europe group.

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    Those Blackberry alternatives

    June 30, 2009

    As regular readers may know, although I’m a relatively recent convert, I’m a huge fan of Blackberry but, as I previously wrote, I was recently without one after an accident involving some coffee. Although it was always likely I’d eventually opt for another Blackberry, my mid-contract status gave me a reason to look at a cheaper clone.

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    expansys offers off-network HTC Hero

    June 30, 2009

    eXpansys are now offering the HTC Hero off network for £399.99 and are promising buyers £30 worth of eXpansys vouchers to spend on accessories for their new phone.

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    These Android phones aren’t getting any prettier

    June 26, 2009

    A lot of people have been excitedly touting the new HTC Hero as an iPhone killer but I’m not convinced.It has an obvious advantage over the iPhone in that it’s going to be available in the UK from both Orange and T-Mobile, but although it’s not quite as ugly as the G1, it retains that dreadful ‘chin’ from the earlier model and still looks functional rather than stylish.

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    O2 - Switch off iPhone tethering or you may get charged


    June 21, 2009

    Like probably most other iPhone users I consider O2’s to tethering charges more than a little greedy but when my T-Mobile broadband failed earlier today I thought I’d give O2 a try  so I could at least compare the two.
    The resulting conversation didn’t go well, first I was told it’s impossible to add tethering ‘same [...]

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    Upgrading to an iPhone 3Gs and those tethering charges

    June 9, 2009

    It’s clear there’s a lot of people unhappy at the upgrade policy of O2 for the iPhone 3G. The network currently wants everyone with an iPhone 3G to pay off their current contracts if they want to upgrade to one of the new 3Gs models. I say ‘currently’ because it seems the UK launch is being marred by some pretty negative headlines and I can’t help but think Apple will soon step in and a change of heart will be announced.

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    Switching to iPhone

    June 4, 2009

    In early April I called my old mobile provider to ask if I could renew my contract that day, only to be told I had to wait two more days to reach my upgrade point. No big deal, except I’d previously killed my Blackberry and was going away so really needed to be able to check my mail while I was out and about.

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