Mobile Networks

I know a thing or two about text messages.

There are two core 'types' of text. Person to person, and bulk.

In p2p I'm putting all those texts we send each other. Bulk is everything else for the purpose of this post - marketing, alerts, etc.

Apple just lobbed a whopping great stone at p2p text messaging, and that stone is called iMessage.

No biggie, you might think; mobile operators give generous SMS allowances with their iPhone tariffs, ...

There's a theme that has driven me all my life. At nursery school I'd connect together all the toys. The staff said this wasn't a problem in itself, but it did become problematic when, post connection, I'd disallow any of the other children to play with them. Paper cups and string. Fairy lights were amazing to me; all those little bulbs connected up together. When a friend, for reasons that still escape me, was given a pager by his parents I was truly misty-eyed and, admittedly, incredibly jealous ...

I could've sworn blind that by now almost every laptop rolling off of the production lines would have a SIM slot as standard. Like WiFi, 3G connectivity would become the norm, and new tariff structures from mobile operators would have made connectivity accessible to all.

That hasn't happened. Is it because people don't want or need a continuous Internet connection when they're mobile? No, I don't think that's true - if 3G were ubiquitous then we'd all just connect and make the most ...

In as little as 10 days my tweets could be travelling 44,472 miles in order to reach you.

Ding ding ding! You're absolutely right! For the first time in 6 years I'm going to be back on satellite bloody broadband!

Lets look at the options:
- ADSL: 256k. Technically it's more like 200k down and 300k up, a bit of a puzzle! There are days when I think I could live with it and hope that something better comes along. Then it goes down for several hours. Oh, and the ...

After years of discounting Three as a bit-player in the UK mobile industry, with a network consisting of masts held up by twine and tent pegs supported by outsourced customer services located in the far-flung corners of the globe, something funny seems to have happened while i wasn't looking.

I discovered this shift thanks to Three's pushing of Huawei's MiFi product. Anyone considering MiFi needs to go for it. Having usable WiFi on the move is infinitely more useful than a restrictive ...