virgin mobile in comment and analysis
We are now roaming at 30,000 feet...
Comment V is for Virgin Soon, even a window seat above the Atlantic will no longer be beyond the reach of the chirping mobile phone. Over the past few months, a host of airlines have announced trials or full launches of on-board mobile telephony systems. [26 Jun 2008]
Complexity makes travellers miss their connection
Comment V is for Virgin In the not too distant future, you will be able to add 3G Long Term Evolution (LTE), mobile WiMax, multiple in multiple out (MiMo) and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to the mix. [12 Jun 2008]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile Outside of Virgin, the Cambridge-educated Lewis is a non-executive director of mobile services software supplier Elata, a member of the customer advisory board for Tideway Systems and a board member of the Telecommunications Management Forum. [11 Jun 2008]
Mobile World Congress 2008 Diary - Tuesday
Comment V is for Virgin Arun Sarin of Vodafone and Nokia's Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo are heading up the GSMA's bill, with China Mobile's Wang Jianzhou and Cisco's John Chambers rounding it off. Conway makes way for Vodafone's chief Arun Sarin - who takes the... [13 Feb 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Getting thinner fast
Comment V is for Virgin Yet I no longer own a floppy disk or a PCMCIA card and I no longer go online using a mobile phone via IrDA or indeed a dial-up modem. The prospect of this new thinner client mobile world will thus be coloured almost entirely by... [28 Jan 2008]
Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century
Comment V is for Virgin This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield. So, regardless of the ups and downs ahead, tomorrow's mobile applications may be just $10bn or $20bn... [17 Dec 2007]
Good and bad year for comms
AS Analysis Richard Branson, whose Virgin brand is now at the forefront of the UK's big cable player, doesn't get a look in this year, but an obvious rival of the Murdochs and those promoting 'free' broadband is the man who has helped turn around the oil... [12 Oct 2007]
Editor's Blog: Tech improves... but we don't?
Comment I was at Heathrow Terminal 3, dropping off my sister, who was returning to the US using Virgin Atlantic. Forget that Virgin doesn't even employ that division, having its Premium Economy and Upper Class (a groovy combination of business and first... [28 Jun 2007]
Gareth Lewis
CIO Profile Outside of Virgin, the Cambridge-educated Lewis is a non-executive director of mobile services software supplier Elata, a member of the customer advisory board for Tideway Systems and a board member of the Telecommunications Management Forum. [06 Jun 2007]
Leader: NTL:Telewest - can the brand be rescued?
Leader As well as talking big about taking the fight to BT and announcing its merged product set, NTL:Telewest Business MD Stephen Beynon talked a little about Virgin Media, the new name for the combine entity of NTL, Telewest and Virgin Mobile - the... [07 Mar 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 02.03.07
Round-Up Meanwhile across town, Virgin became part of cable TV uber-chimera NTL:Telewest to offer a wide range of services from mobile phones to internet, via pay-TV (transatlantic flights, cola flavoured drinks and trains - though the less said about the... [02 Mar 2007]
Upwardly Mobile: Mobile advertising at work?
Comment Virgin Mobile in the US has introduced one of the more interesting examples of this with its Sugar Mama service, where users are offered free voice minutes or texts in return for accepting advertising messages or doing market research surveys for... [27 Feb 2007]
Editor's Blog: All communications in one place
Comment Virgin Media is basically the combination of four ventures - NTL, Telewest, Virgin Mobile and VirginNet - and the launch literature talks a lot, and I mean a lot, about great customer service. Now at least two of those are known for good customer... [09 Feb 2007]
Unwired: The tiny screen problem
Comment V is for Virgin The ultra-mobile PC is bridging the gap between smart phone and laptop. In the future, mobile WiMax promises to envelop whole cities in ultra-fast wireless coverage, moving us towards 'always-on' ubiquitous connectivity. [12 Dec 2006]
So what is convergence anyway?
Comment The business pages of a daily paper will state with authority that convergence is the driving force behind cable company NTL's merger with Virgin Mobile, while the technology supplement writes about the latest converged handset. [07 Dec 2006]
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