Earlier today, Twitter lit up with comments from outraged customers who had learnt that the network was handing out their mobile telephone number to any website they visited.
In what appears to be a shocking breach of privacy, reports are indicating that UK British cellphone carrier O2 is sending a customer’s mobile number to every website they visit on their phone.
Back in the days when businesses spoke something approaching normal English, they’d apologise to you when they had to put up their prices.
We can’t think of many things more annoying than being bothered by SMS messages offering us discounts for hair products or distinctly average coffee, but a breakthrough deal sees UK network provider O2 partnering up with location services platform Placecast to deliver targeted SMS and MMS messages.
It looks like network wars are set to break out in the UK after mobile network 3 gunned for its rival o2 with an outrageously cheeky infographic.
With their first attempt to roll out the Android HTC Desire Froyo 2.2 update rapidly turning into a fiasco with the upgrade being withdrawn due to ”potential freezing issues,” O2 are trying again.
Following Orange and Vodafone‘s official (and not quite so official) announcements, o2 have now posted up their prices and tariffs for the new iPhone4 handsets.
New or upgrading customers can get the iPhone 4 on an 18 or 24 month tariff, or users can choose to pay the full Pay & Go price for an iPhone 4 and select one of o2′s “Pay Monthly simplicity for iPhone tariff.”
UK network O2 has told its smartphone customers –principally users of Apple’s iPhone – that they’re dumping their “unlimited” data plans, and heavy users can expect to be slapped around the chops with additional charges.
Existing Apple iPhone-toting o2 customers driven into a frenzy of want, lust and desire by the announcement of Apple’s delightful new iPhone 4 handset can now find out exactly how much the upgrade is going to cost them.
Apple have announced that they will be postponing the international launch of the iPad by one month, so UK users won’t be able to get their chip-stained, ale-soaked hands on the device until the end of May.
UK network o2 managed to shoot themselves in the foot with disarming accuracy after a speed study they commissioned revealed Vodafone to be the fastest operator in the UK for accessing the web.
The survey was commissioned by O2 and independently verified by BABT (British Approvals Board for Telecommunications), and involved measuring five UK operators in a 60 day period across 150 UK locations.
HP have hooked up with Telefonica to create the Android-powered Airlife 100.
Touted as a ‘smartbook’ – that’s a hybrid of a smart phone and a netbook to you – the 10.1-inch touchscreen Airlife will be offered in Europe and Latin America with a carrier subsidy as part of as Telefonica’s mobile broadband service (so it’ll be on o2 in the UK).
Telefonica – owners of the O2 mobile network – says it has shifted 2 million Apple iPhones in Britain and reckons the future’s bright with good Palm Pre sales keeping the cashtills kerchinging.
Apple’s original mobile phone partner in the UK, O2 lost its exclusivity on the iconic smartphone last year, which it first offered for sale in November 2007.
The iPhone is now available on Orange, Vodafone and Tesco Mobile in Britain.
Apple has announced that it will start shipping the hugely hyped Wi-Fi model of the iPad tablet in March, with the 3G version following in April.
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Rumoured to be in response to poor sales, the Carphone Warehouse is giving away two free airline tickets to anyone who buys a Palm Pre before the end of January.
Although the Palm Pre won widespread rave reviews, with many declaring it to be a worthy challenger to the iPhone, sales have apparently failed to match up to expectations.
We can’t say we’re that surprised, to be honest.
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