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Inbox: iPhone ad, red boxes, wi-fi piggybacking, sci-fi thinking
Comment Also up for discussion this week: How much would you pay to keep the iconic red phone box on your village green? The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. [04 Sep 2008]
Pay-as-you-go for iPhone 3G
News O2 UK has revealed how much it will cost to own a pay-as-you-go iPhone 3G. Pay-as-you-go iPhone customers will get 12 months unlimited browsing and wi-fi at hotspots from O2's partners BT Openzone and The Cloud, subject to excessive usage policy. [01 Sep 2008]
Inbox: Data breaches, tech wages, ePassport woes
Comment The cynic in me thinks that a team that is not trained cannot find jobs elsewhere: a team that has external qualifications might leave or want pay rises. At the end of last week the Home Office announced its latest blunder concerning the public's... [28 Aug 2008]
ASDA to kick start mobile pay-as-you-go price war?
News Supermarket chain ASDA says it is to slash its pay-as-you-go (PAYG) mobile phone rates from the start of September, potentially sparking a price war in the UK. Vodafone announced increases after rivals T-Mobile and O2 raised their pre-pay call... [21 Aug 2008]
Femtocells to save mobile operators over $5bn?
News After all, getting users to pay for improved network coverage themselves could be something of a hard sell. Mobile operators could make "significant savings" on network infrastructure costs by deploying femtocells. [13 Aug 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 08.08.08
Round-Up Ikea is offering a pay-as-you-go mobile SIM it claims has the lowest price pay as you go calls and texts in the UK. The Round-Up has never been a big fan of DIY. At least, not since that incident with the electric drill and the very large plumber's... [08 Aug 2008]
Now in Ikea's bargain corner: Cheap mobile PAYG
News Home furnishing retailer Ikea is hoping to make the humble pay-as-you-go (PAYG) mobile SIM as handy as a standard issue Allen key by undercutting the competition by a quarter. The purveyor of oddly named ranges of flat-pack furniture has pulled a... [04 Aug 2008]
Legal Eye: Trademark landmark
Comment The landmark case goes back to a 2004 TV advertisement for 3's ThreePay pay-as-you-go service. Consider also the recent changes to trademark keyword bidding on Google, where all and sundry can now bid on trademark-registered terms during the pay... [16 Jul 2008]
10 things we'd change on the 3G iPhone
Comment No pay-as-you-go iPhone - yet… And considering the iPhone pay-monthly tariffs are still on the steep side - £30 is the entry-level consumer plan - and the phone is only available from one UK operator, it would be nice to have another way to be an... [14 Jul 2008]
iPhone 3G: The wait is over
News They will also be able to pass on their old iPhone to anyone who has an O2 SIM card - even a pay-as-you-go SIM - and that person will be able to then use the older device as long as they pay £10 per month for the iPhone bolt-on. [11 Jul 2008]
Editor's Blog: The naked truth about DSL
Comment I've certainly heard gripes from consumers who wonder why they have to pay for a landline that they have never even plugged a telephone into. It might sound like something from the seedier side of the internet - but naked DSL might just be the next... [03 Jul 2008]
T-Mobile UK slashes Euro data roaming costs
News However even at £1.50 per MB, a mobile broadband user would still have to pay around £6 to download one MP3 from iTunes. The operator added it will also be introducing tariff options called 'Euro Holiday Boosters' which it says will enable pay... [20 Jun 2008]
Dear silicon.com: Prison IT, iPhone wi-fi, and the clock ticking on XP...
Comment While I think it's great to give prisoners something positive that might help them 'go straight' in the future, I can't help feeling short-changed that I get taxed with a 100 per cent (yes, that's one hundred percent - not a typo) taxation on any... [19 Jun 2008]
Name that tune...the rise of Shazam
Comment The company's revenue is no longer restricted to ID-ing songs either, which typically costs 50p per successful ID for pay-as-you-go users, along with the cost of a standard network call. The company's business started life seven years ago as a... [12 Jun 2008]
Open source guru criticises Oyster software
News To escape the surveillance enabled by Oyster cards, Stallman suggested paying fares in cash, or using pay-as-you-go cards and swapping them for time to time: "That way, even if Big Brother finds out which card you have today, he can't use its... [10 Jun 2008]
