operator in comment and analysis
Leader: €12 for roaming data? Could try harder
Leader This is a price/volume game - the lower the data costs get, the more 'mobile broadband' will be used - putting operator and enterprise user in a win-win situation. At this year's CeBIT trade show in Hanover, Vodafone announced it will offer a flat... [15 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: How the iPhone changed the world
Comment When Apple unveiled the iPhone, it set the whole mobile industry talking - not just about the device but about the unusual agreement between Apple and mobile operator Cingular. It seems the iPhone operator Cingular rolled over and kept on rolling. [12 Mar 2007]
India diary, day 9: An auto-rickshaw ride and a catwalk show
Comment Then I'm back to the hotel to check email and, as the man on the ground, even write up a story on the big news of the day - Vodafone's bid for local mobile operator Hutchison Essar. Monday 12 February - Pune [12 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Mobile advertising at work?
Comment No cash-strapped youths for their ad men - the operator is targeting insurance agents and pharmacists. Sometimes you see a new invention and you think 'great idea'. Take the Valentine's Krispy Kreme donut - so bad, it's good. [27 Feb 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 4: Mobile's future killer apps?
Comment Japan is the cradle of mobile advancement and Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo is often at the forefront of some of the most far-sighted - and far out - developments. Dropping by their stand today, I took a look at some new functionality the operator... [15 Feb 2007]
Leader: Roaming rates - more work needed
Leader It is fitting that in this week of the annual 3GSM World Congress a major mobile network operator has chosen to announce lower data-roaming rates. An operator that cracks that equation - decent service with a reasonable cap and reasonable prices... [14 Feb 2007]
3GSM Diary, day 1: The biggest event in mobile...
Comment Vodafone has also just officially announced its play for Indian operator Essar, and the world's biggest operators are thought to be clubbing together to create a mobile search engine: an announcement likely to be as significant as their decision... [12 Feb 2007]
Minority Report: The 10 worst things about Apple
Comment And when it does there will be just one operator to choose from. Despite the desirable, good-looking products, Apple often manages to put more than a few noses out of joint. Today Seb Janacek looks at the most common complaints about the Mac maker. [05 Feb 2007]
Leader: Will the iPhone shake-up the mobile world?
Leader It's indisputable that the iPhone will come to Blighty, via an exclusive deal that comes with its own operator-disgruntling concessions. When Apple launched the iPhone in the US it didn't share the love - it signed an exclusive deal with Cingular... [29 Jan 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Where's the smart money for smart phones?
Comment Cue chink of champagne glasses at the operator. Here's what they'll have to do to start raking in the dough. Happy New Year! Maybe you got a new mobile for Christmas? Chances are it may well have been a smart phone. [10 Jan 2007]
The telecoms operator of the future
Comment The next-generation operator will no longer be a bit carrier. The era of converged telecoms services is bringing big changes to the operators. Stewart Baines looks at what they'll need to succeed in the future. [02 Jan 2007]
Brampton Factor: What's so great about one telecoms provider?
Comment And as if it somehow settled the matter, the operator informed me that BT could only change the bills to my wife's name if it first carried out a credit check on her. To authenticate myself, I had to produce my BT account number or tell the call... [19 Dec 2006]
VoIP takes hold with small businesses
Comment Vonage says the operator has more than two million users worldwide. Vonage is a more like a traditional operator than Skype. It may be a truism but, nonetheless, voice over IP has the capacity to transform how companies deal with their communications. [17 Dec 2006]
When mobile meets the landline
Comment Calls over the internet connection are tunnelled back to the mobile operator's network. SIP-based fixed-mobile convergence dispenses with the need to route calls back through the mobile operator's network. [13 Dec 2006]
ITU 06 diary - BT's bacon sock, mobile medicine and 3G backlash
Comment For the illiterate, the interaction with an operator would take place by selecting symbols to indicate the nature of the problem - for example, a simple, emoticon-type image of a person sneezing for a cold or something that looked surprisingly... [07 Dec 2006]
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