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10 September 2008

Senator Investigating High Text Messaging Pricing in U.S

Filed under: mobile network operators, telecom - 10 Sep 2008

Herbert Kohl, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin.
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Slashdot, textually.org, Mobile Industry Review, and others are reporting that a Wisconson congress critter is taking the

30 August 2008

You Only Think Using Your Mobile Is Expensive Where You Are

Filed under: mobile network operators - 30 Aug 2008

Zimbabwe £8 in local currency in 2003
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Les Afriques is reporting (in French, here’s the Google Translation) that the local carriers have raised their rates …

20 August 2008

Vopium: More Minute And SMS Stealing

Filed under: telecom, voip - 20 Aug 2008

I am periodically asked to review VoIP services. One of the more recent ones is Denmark based Vopium. …

9 June 2008

SecurID Over SMS: Sign Me Up!

Filed under: mobile phones, security - 09 Jun 2008

As someone who spends an inordinate amount of time working from home, I always have to know where my SecurID token is. Without it and …

14 March 2008

The CTIA And Double-Standards On Text Messaging

Filed under: mobile network operators - 14 Mar 2008

Amazing, the comments I posted to this post on the CTIA blog got posted! One of them even got responded to. Someone must be asleep at the switch. :)

Carriers don’t block text messages between users, they say. They probably …

4 February 2008

Common Short Codes Like 900/976 Numbers? Huh?

Filed under: mobile network operators, telecom - 04 Feb 2008

Nokia SMSThe CTIA is baffling me again. This time it is with their non-sequitur response to the whole issue of Common Short Codes, which the folks at Public Knowledge are petitioning the …

28 January 2008

Do We Really Need Smartphones?

Filed under: gadgets, nokia - 28 Jan 2008

Nokia N95While I’m sure my employer might disagree with this particular viewpoint, Rom Feria over at Tech Without Wires points to a UK study that suggests smartphones, such as

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