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28th September 2006, 11:57 PM
Not pondering as to whether I should take a Three contract, but as to what the company is doing with itself. I don't know if that's why Three seems to become the largest focus of a lot of forums, but they do seem to give out the least information as to what direction they're heading in!
There was the news a few months ago when HWL announced the losses that their mobile arm, Three, was causing them, not that they seemed bothered having pumped millions of quid into H3G in various countries without making any real money yet. 2008 they said they'd break even, that right? It's still a while off anyway, so no matter. Over the last few days WePay has been getting a bit of a roasting with the other 4 making their PAYG offerings hugely more inviting, Vodafone's latest stumping everyone! So it's had me thinking as to what they're going to do, and I'd like to hear your suggestions and ideas also!
Here's what I think. Three have been flying under the radar for a while now, the other 4 have been up to all sorts, from launching free broadband, to buying up ISPs and hooking up with ISPs to re-sell their own brand of Broadband. Three don't seem to be interested in that route, and I suppose having 12 million less customers than each of the other networks why would you want to invest in creating Three the ISP? Now, around the festive period all the operators get rather competitive and I think Three will have something waiting in the wings for us all, my thoughts are a standard all you eat and text call package, a-la your current ISP.
You'll pay £25 a month and you can talk and text as much as you want. And if you want to use your handset as a modem you pay, say, £50 a month, unlimited calls and texts and the same with the data. How does that sound? As I say, it's just an idea that I had, Three have been quiet for too long and I think it's about time they got up, dusted themselves down and came out for a fight with the big boys! They've nothing to lose and everything to gain!
There was the news a few months ago when HWL announced the losses that their mobile arm, Three, was causing them, not that they seemed bothered having pumped millions of quid into H3G in various countries without making any real money yet. 2008 they said they'd break even, that right? It's still a while off anyway, so no matter. Over the last few days WePay has been getting a bit of a roasting with the other 4 making their PAYG offerings hugely more inviting, Vodafone's latest stumping everyone! So it's had me thinking as to what they're going to do, and I'd like to hear your suggestions and ideas also!
Here's what I think. Three have been flying under the radar for a while now, the other 4 have been up to all sorts, from launching free broadband, to buying up ISPs and hooking up with ISPs to re-sell their own brand of Broadband. Three don't seem to be interested in that route, and I suppose having 12 million less customers than each of the other networks why would you want to invest in creating Three the ISP? Now, around the festive period all the operators get rather competitive and I think Three will have something waiting in the wings for us all, my thoughts are a standard all you eat and text call package, a-la your current ISP.
You'll pay £25 a month and you can talk and text as much as you want. And if you want to use your handset as a modem you pay, say, £50 a month, unlimited calls and texts and the same with the data. How does that sound? As I say, it's just an idea that I had, Three have been quiet for too long and I think it's about time they got up, dusted themselves down and came out for a fight with the big boys! They've nothing to lose and everything to gain!