Alex Kinch

Are you fed up with your old mobile? Willing to swap it for a shiny new handsets for a few weeks? We’ve three brand new 3 handsets, three cages, and are looking for three volunteers willing to lock up their old mobile and try 3 and Skype for a fortnight.

In the last of a series of articles covering the ‘Where is Payforit Today?’ event (link to part one and part two) the final speaker of the evening was Del Dias, Managing Director at AEI Media – who amongst other things are a content provider customer of Dialogue

Continuing the series of articles on Payforit, we turn the spotlight to Rory Maguire, Head of Payment Services for 3, and the presentation he gave at aime’s ‘Where is Payforit today?’ seminar.

A few years ago a handful of operators, aggregators and content providers got together and quietly launched a new payment method called Payforit. Two years on, how has it evolved?

American company TCM Mobile claimed recently to have built the world’s first totally VoIP-based cellular network – a story which we covered here. I caught up for a quick chat with company president Haim Yashar to find out more.

UPDATE: It doesn’t seem that long ago that we lost the one2one brand in favour of T-Mobile – and it might be about to happen again if Deutsche Telekom’s shareholders get their way, and force an exit of the UK market – or a merger with existing operator.

It’s been an interesting few weeks in the world of travel SIM providers. If rumours are to be believed, United Mobile – one of the biggest (and longest established) providers of travel SIMs is in the throws of death – and already some of it’s competitors are trying to pick at the bones.