Ben's Talk3G Blog

Everything Everywhere, the amalgamation of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK, faces a massive challenge. It wants to consolidate its brand. This would be difficult given the best of scenarios, but CEO Olaf Swantee seems resigned to uniting behind the Everything Everywhere identity.

At first pass this seems to be an insurmountable challenge. The mobile network cannot possibly be called "Everything Everywhere". It's too long. There's simply nothing that can be done with it. ...

On Monday 11th June 2012, Apple unveiled the 'Next Generation' MacBook Pro, a vision of a laptop of the future.

From the reviews that I've read, and my own mind, there's no doubt that the new MBP is, quite simply, the best high-end laptop that money can buy. It's a combination of a high technical specification and a thin, light form-factor, true to Apple's ethos that a laptop computer must be, first and foremost, portable if it is to have any place in the world at all. In fact, Apple ...

Several of you were right to be sceptical when O2's new 3G900 coverage maps got me all excited. Coverage maps, after all, rarely reflect real life experience, and Ofcom has proven sorely ineffective at remedying this farce.

But for me, the reality of 3G900 has been a lot closer to O2's projected coverage than you'd think. It's actually scarily accurate, and as I've explored Canterbury today I've been surprised by the breadth and depth of O2's 3G coverage, which is probably comparable ...

I've been with O2 before with the iPhone 3G/3GS. I remember well that "No Service" message where my signal bars should be, and the utter shock whenever anything faster than an E appeared on the display. Oh yes, O2 aren't exactly renowned for their 3G rollout success...

Since then I've been with Vodafone, and to start with it was just fine. I was getting the experience I was expecting, having used their data cards and dongles since the beginning. However, not long after the ...

The last big mobile technology change in recent history (2003, just 9 years ago almost to the day) was a relatively simple one. One primary band, 2100MHz, was auctioned off by the government. A whopping five mobile operators were awarded spectrum, and then had to deploy WCDMA technology in it. The same thing miraculously happened across much of the world, especially Europe, and '3G' handsets worked within this band pretty much without exception.

Since then the rapidly changing pace ...