3's UK chief executive retires
Blog Fuller will be replaced by Kevin Russell, who has been the company's deputy CEO since January. Bob Fuller, the chief executive officer of 3 UK, is to retire in June when he reaches his 60th birthday, the mobile operator said today.
[May 3, 2007, 15:27]
3 to offer £2 SIM cards for free Skype
News At a briefing in London, 3 chief executive Kevin Russell pointed out that most operators prohibit the use of VoIP services such as Skype on their handsets, and said that those networks' customers "will be able to use [3's] network for Skype and...
[April 23, 2009, 14:28]
3 disables data roaming to avoid bill shock
News Because of the huge disparity between what we charge on our own networks and the costs charged by many networks for wholesale roaming across Europe, which we are forced to pass on to the customer, we have decided to make a data-roaming bar the...
[July 8, 2008, 12:50]
Operators set out new roaming fees
News We're excited," said Kevin Russell, chief executive of 3 UK, on Thursday. UK mobile operators have outlined their revised European roaming tariffs after the rates were capped by the European Commission.
[July 19, 2007, 12:24]
EC to cap text-roaming costs
News It took the [Commission] to intervene on behalf of the consumer on voice roaming, and we're glad it intends to do the same on texts," said chief executive Kevin Russell. The cost of text messaging while abroad on the continent is to be cut...
[July 15, 2008, 16:09]
Light-emitting silicon boosts chip speeds
News The significance is massive," said Russell Gwilliam, who contributed to the project. Scientists at Surrey University, led by researcher Kevin Homewood, are showing off a prototype silicon-based light-emitting diode (LED) -- an invention that could...
[March 8, 2001, 15:02]
UK start-up to commercialise optical silicon
News The company, founded by Homewood and fellow University of Surrey academics Dr Russell Gwilliam and Dr Guosheng Shao, will use the award to establish partnerships with companies such as semiconductor makers, to which it can license its technology...
[November 5, 2003, 17:20]
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[September 27, 2007, 8:00]
3 to push VoIP and instant messaging
News Speaking at a mobile-broadband roundtable on Tuesday, Kevin Russell said the operator was "not too focused on content right now" and was instead planning to attack its larger competitors by actively pushing the types of "disruptive" services from...
[April 8, 2008, 16:12]
Ofcom's plan to speed up number porting derailed
News The judgement was a "technical and legal decision that has somehow completely forgotten the consumer and is in danger of delaying the current process", Kevin Russell, chief executive of mobile company 3, said in a statement.
[September 19, 2008, 16:03]
3 unveils Facebook phone for the data generation
News Speaking at a launch event in London, Kevin Russell, chief executive of 3, said: "The iPhone is a fabulous product — a breakthrough in usability. However, Russell claimed the big incumbent operators are not as keen to embrace mobile-internet...
[November 14, 2008, 6:30]
3 opens up paid, international Skype functionality
News Kevin Russell, 3 UK's chief executive, claimed in a statement that 3's customers already had "the best-value international-calling tariffs in the UK", but conceded that customers remained "apprehensive about using their mobiles to call...
[September 30, 2008, 15:15]
3 stung by termination caps
Blog In an interview with the Financial Times, the chief executive of 3 UK, Kevin Russell, has claimed that Ofcom's decision was "absurd" and "anticompetitive" - a position which will ring true (pardon the pun) with the more free-market-minded among you.
[May 30, 2007, 17:08]
Mobile operators set to receive rate cuts
News Kevin Russell, chief executive of 3, said the commission should drop rates to around 0.4p — the rate charged by fixed operators. The Competition Commission has decided the UK's mobile termination rates — the amount one operator pays another to...
[January 26, 2009, 7:22]
Ofcom tries again to speed up number porting
News A spokesperson for Ofcom told ZDNet UK on Tuesday that the regulator's new proposals followed "detailed consumer research and a thorough cost-benefit analysis".s chief executive, Kevin Russell, last year described the CAT's decision as a...
[August 4, 2009, 17:16]
