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3 UK Set For Pre-pay 3G Offering
News A pre-pay 3G service that will let users pay as they go rather than having to sign up for a contract could help boost 3's subscriber figures, which failed to meet a target of one million by the end of last year.
[February 18, 2004, 17:00]
Pay-as-you-surf WAP Arrives, Cellnet Steals A First
News WAP finally went mass market Monday, with the launch of the UK's first pre-pay handset. Cellnet's pre-pay WAP package is available via Mitsubishi's Geo-@ handset. The launch of a pre-pay offering is the final piece in the jigsaw of mass market...
[April 3, 2000, 16:03]
Mobile Operators Accused Of International Roaming Rip-off
News Oftel has accused the UK's mobile phone operators of taking advantage of their pre-pay customers and overcharging them when they use their phone abroad. UK prices for pre-pay international roaming are much higher than for customers in France...
[November 7, 2001, 10:04]
News Burst: Oftel Issues Christmas Warning To Mobile Operators
News Oftel is working to ensure that the expected 3.5m purchasers of pre-pay mobile phones in the run up to Christmas do not experience the problems faced by consumers last year. The Director General, David Edmunds, said at an industry dinner last night...
[October 29, 1999, 11:14]
Oftel Issues Christmas Warning To Mobile Operators
News Oftel is working to ensure that the expected 3.5m purchasers, according to a recent Orange report, of pre-pay mobile phones in the run up to Christmas do not experience the problems faced by consumers last year.
[October 29, 1999, 15:19]
Cellnet Launches Net Access On A Prepay Mobile Phone
News Cellnet's mobile Internet unit, launched by BT Thursday, promises to have the know-how and resources to drive WAP into the mass market with Britain's first pre-pay WAP phone, restructured pricing tariffs and guaranteed supplies of WAP handsets...
[March 9, 2000, 13:12]
T-Mobile And Vodafone Slash Roaming Charges
News From 1 June, it will charge contract and pre-pay customers 55p per minute to use their phones in North America and Europe. T-Mobile claims this represents a reduction of between 20 percent and 54 percent, depending on whether the customer is on...
[May 8, 2006, 12:55]
Net Domain Controversy Settled
News In return, NSI will pre-pay $1.25m (£780,000) in ICANN fees. Registrations that pay the standard $70 don't have to be pre-paid. Among the issues: Standards should be established to measure the performance of the registry, NSI should be required to...
[November 5, 1999, 15:00]
UK Gets More Wi-Fi Hot Spots As T-Mobile Expands Starbucks Deal
News For the T-Mobile HotSpot service at Starbucks, four pre-pay tariffs will be introduced on 31 March, including a 60-minute pass for £5.50, a day pass for £16.50, a month pass for £37.00 and a 120-minute allowance for £14.00.
[March 6, 2003, 13:41]
Mobile Handset Figures Branded Fake
News Carphone Warehouse, Europe's largest handset retailer, believes that a large proportion of the sales of pre-pay and contract mobile phones is made up of existing pre-pay mobile users upgrading their handset or taking advantage of attractive...
[April 9, 2001, 10:08]
X-Series Pricing Tests Mobile Broadband Market
News The mass market is pre-pay. In order to get the majority of the market onto something like this you would first need to persuade them to migrate from pre-pay to contract," said Delaney, who added that operators had always been largely unsuccessful...
[December 1, 2006, 10:59]
O2 Launches I-mode In UK
News O2 will initially offer the service to customers on four handsets from NEC and Samsung, at prices from £79 for an NEC 343i on pre-pay (free for pay monthly customers) to £279 on a Samsung Z320i (£79.99 for pay monthly customers).
[September 26, 2005, 17:20]
Oftel Galled By Cost Of Mobile Roaming
News It has calculated that by switching to the SIM card of a French mobile operator it is possible to save up to £28 on as pre-pay phone bill of £82, or £34 on a contract bill of £64. Oftel also said that pre-pay mobile customers can save 18 percent by...
[July 1, 2002, 14:33]
Pre-paying Brits Won't Flock To 3G
News One particular problem is getting users to move beyond pre-pay. Many advanced services are not available to pre-pay customers, and our research suggests that the industry will find it difficult to wean users off pre-pay," they said.
[April 1, 2003, 13:34]
Orange Roaming Rates Claim Another Victim
News She was also especially annoyed that she uses pre-pay for downloading and pre-pay for WAP services. I've asked if they will give me more time to pay the bill," she said, "and I am waiting to hear. The extortionate cost of using mobile data services...
[January 31, 2006, 17:00]
Pay-as-you-surf With Alpha Telecom's Internet Scratch Card
News Britain's first ever pre-paid Internet access card is to be launched by Alpha Telecom next month, in attempt to tap into the marketing phenomenon which jump-started mobile phone usage. Between 1997 to 1999, pre-paid mobile packages generated more...
[July 17, 2001, 7:29]
Home Automation At Open Tech 2008
Blog You can pre-register your ticket now at www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/registration to allow you to jump the queue and pay your fiver on the door. You can pre-register your ticket now at www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/registration to allow...
[June 19, 2008, 8:25]
Amstrad Still Losing Money On The E-m@iler
News Amstrad announced on Thursday that its Amserve business, which is responsible for the e-m@iler, made a pre-tax loss of £6.1m in the twelve months to 30 June 2003. Overall, Amstrad made a pre-tax profit of £3.8m for the year to 30 June, on the back...
[September 25, 2003, 13:25]
Acer: Vista Is An Excuse For Microsoft Price Hikes
News According to Jim Wong, senior corporate vice president of Acer, the issue is simply that the basic home edition of Vista, Home Basic, which is available for pre-order on Amazon.co.uk for £154.99, is so basic that users will be forced to move to...
[October 27, 2006, 13:35]
Dell's Linux PC Launch Founders
News Dell said on Tuesday that it would launch two PCs with a pre-installed Linux operating system today. He said the 530n will cost £399 and the 6400n will cost £329 and they will both come with the Ubuntu Linux distribution pre-installed.
[August 8, 2007, 18:25]
