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EE extends headstart with 17 more cities added to its 4G coverage
Competitors Vodafone and O2 will have to wait until early summer Seventeen more British cities are to be embraced by EE‘s 4G network, as the nation’s biggest mobile operator seeks to extend its...
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Guest Post: Time for comms to get real in 2013
by Mark Windle, head of marketing with OpenCloud The arrival of LTE around the globe and in the UK was one of the defining features of 2012. Operators are under increasing pressure from Over-The-Top...
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T-Mobile UK’s customer service disappoints
Rating: Apparently iPhone 5 demand overwhelms support desk GoMobile News doesn’t normally get involved with individual consumers’ cases, but we were completely surprised by the situation facing one...
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Ofcom poised to outlaw mid-term price hikes on mobile contracts
Customers will also get right to cancel without penalty charge Mid-contract price hikes for millions of UK mobile users will become a thing of the past under plans by the country’s regulator Ofcom to...
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Tenth of EE stores for the chop
Merging of T-Mobile and Orange brands to blame EE is to close at least one in ten stores within the next three months following the merging of its former T-Mobile and Orange brands. The re-branding in...
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Britain’s EE could be bought by US teleco giant
But there are plenty others in the frame too Britain’s biggest mobile operator EE could be the target of a takeover by US telecom’s giant AT&T, it’s claimed, as a virtual guinea pig for its pricing...
View ArticleEE to ‘be floated’ on London market by end of 2013
Following in the footsteps of Russia’s MegaFon, it’s claimed Britain’s largest mobile network EE is being primed for flotation at the end of this year in what could prove to be London’s biggest stock...
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MNOs should fight back with their own VoIP & VoLTE services
Rating: Go with the flow and buy into ‘open’ ecosystem MNOs must breakaway from proprietary 7 embrace open ecosystem - Windle It’s easy to forget that until very recently, voice was the key revenue...
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Nokia Lumia 925 – Full Technical Specs
The latest addition to Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 powered Lumia range Launched in London on May 14th 2013 as the follow up to the Nokia Lumia 920. In addition to Europe with Vodafone, the Nokia Lumia 925...
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Britain’s Three hints at volte-face on 4G rollout
May now bring it forward rather than lose customers Britain’s fourth biggest mobile operator, Three (3UK), may bring forward its introduction of 4G networks in a bid to counter the headstart gained by...
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MNOs & banks to launch mobile wallet services in 2013
Berg Insight says mass adoption coming in 2016 The European market for mobile wallet services is developing quickly, with substantial momentum behind NFC wallet services says a new market report...
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UK operators poised to blitz 17m mobile users with tailored app ads
Lucrative new niche promised by combined mobile money venture Weve, the mobile money and marketing venture brought together by Vodafone, EE and O2, is to go into overdrive this summer as it targets...
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WP8 sales decline in Australia but climb in Europe says Kantar
Sony’s fortunes revive thanks to Android In the latest release of its figures for global smartphone sales, Worldpanel ComTech has noted a decline in sales of Windows Phone based handsets in Australia...
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US firm claims that EU MNOs are throttling it
Strange view of uncompetitive behaviour It appears that an unnamed US firm has complained to the EU that leading European MNOs [Mobile Network Operators] – Deutsche Telekom, France’s Orange and Spain’s...
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European MNOs show more signs of consolidation
This time it is in Germany with KPN bye-bye e-plus germany?Another commonly perceived wisdom in the cellular industry is that there are just too many MNOs [Mobile Network Operators] in Europe. Which is...
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Activation figures show that iPhone 5C tanking globally
AT&T and Verizon way ahead of Sprint & T-Mobile % of global iPhone 5c vs 5s activations - china is blob 2nd from right There have been some very interesting stats put out by market researchers,...
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Isis mobile wallet deal with Proxama shows what BlackBerry could do
Probably the most secure smartphone in the world isis is a significant step forward for NFC - quitmann We were totally astonished here at GoMo Towers at the discovery that two of the latest and...
View ArticleiOS7 upgrade turns on cellular voicemail shock
What to do if this happens to you on T-Mobile UK It started off as a simple and rather innocuous request for advice. A regular GoMo News reader found that not only was voicemail suddenly switched on...
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US MNOs move to ban Premium Rate SMS services
Don’t tell Neelie Kroes – she’ll think it an excellent idea mobile commerce can forfeit its place - Bud Last week [November 22nd 2013], three out of the four big US based MNOs -AT&T, Sprint, and...
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Guest Post: Battle for LTE – US MNOs steal march on Europeans
by Michael Tessler, President and CEO, BroadSoft With the Global Mobile Suppliers Association (GSMA) recently confirming there are 200 commercial LTE networks in 76 countries, one cannot deny that LTE...
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Guest Post: Android is conquering the tech world
by Kate Merzlova, a frequent GoMo guest blogger now with Nasty Creatures By 2020, there should be around 75 billion devices connected to the Internet. And in my opinion, it is highly probable that...
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Special Xmas GoMo News reader competition from EE
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW OVER. WINNER ANNOUNCED JAN 2014. Win a Nokia Lumia 625 with EE Xmas 2013 Win this superb Nokia Lumia 625 with EE EE says, “Here at EE we’re already looking forward to Xmas....
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EE’s £10bn flotation put on hold sparking rumours of outright sale
Joint owners claim they want to expand 4G roll-out first Britain’s biggest phone operator, EE, has had its partial flotation put on hold by owners France Telecom and Deutsche Telekom, in a surprise...
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T-Mobile’s maverick Legere turns US operation around
Describes the US MNO as an ‘Un-carrier’ legere It seems that the favourite way of describing current T-Mobile USA CEO, John Legere, is to portray him as some kind of maverick. Shock, horror he has...
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Guest Post: How mobile money services are changing how people use cash
by Joe Fortunato, a freelance writer More than 60 per cent of North Americans believe that (according to Harris Interactive) smartphones will replace credit cards and cash, and 43 per cent believe it...
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adjust announces deal with Deutsche Telekom to provide global app tracking...
adjust, formerly known as adeven, is now Deutsche Telekom’s official mobile app tracking and attribution partner adjust is ePrivacy certified, meets stringent EU privacy laws and uses SSL encryption...
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Available for 1st time in USA – Nokia Lumia 635
First day after Independence Day – the 4G LTE Lumia phone on T-Mobile USA In just three day’s time, the impressive Nokia Lumia 635 – loaded with Windows Phone 8.1 (WP8), Cortana, & SensorCore tech...
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Sprint acquires Marcelo Claure as new CEO
Drops its bid for T-Mobile USA new sprint ceo - claure The USA’s third largest MNO [Mobile Network Operator], Sprint (formerly Sprint Nextel) has reportedly dropped its bid for T-Mobile USA in the face...
View ArticleT-Mobile acquiring lion’s share of US contract phones
Signed up 1 million on phone contracts in Q4 2014 It appears that T-Mobile US under CEO John Legere is stealing customers from its rivals among the Big Four mobile network operators [MNOs]. For Q4...
View ArticleT-Mobile to launch Jump on Demand
Apparently the US MNO is amping up existing ‘un-carrier’ initiatives T-Mobile USA (the US based MNO [Mobile Network Operator]) is to launch on June 28th [2015] ‘Jump on Demand’ – an enhanced...
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