Alex Kinch

INQ Mobile, makers of the INQ1 mobile handset for 3, have released data on how the network’s UK customers use the handset.

Latest Mobile Analytics Solution Enables Carriers to Effectively Monitor and Manage Mobile Data Traffic for Feature Phones, Smartphones, Netbooks and other Mobile Devices.

Mobile operator Orange have unveiled their fifth Digital Media Index – and revealed dongle data usage has increased by 4,125% in the past twelve months.

Customers of Vodafone UK are to get a new flat rate 50p daily rate for mobile data starting from May 1st – and to launch the offer the operator is offering free browsing for 24 hours.

In one of those ‘you couldn’t make it up’ moments, the mobile industry has figured a way to fix the credit crunch – by asking the G20 to stop the regulators interfering.
Forget pumping $1 trillion into the economy – the GSM Association reckons it can single-handedly fix the credit crunch by creating 25 million jobs [...]

Following the success of their first auction in September 2007, mobile domain name registrar dotMobi are having another auction, kicking off tomorrow (31st October 2007).
Amongst the 100 “premium names” in the auction are such gems as car.mobi, gps.mobi, gay.mobi, kiss.mobi, love.mobi and map.mobi. If the first auction is anything to go by, the stakes will [...]

Canadian mobile operator Rogers is uping the stakes with mobile data speeds in North America, unveiling what it calls the fastest download speeds in the country.
Following the expansion of it’s HSPA service to 25 Canadian markets earlier this month, Rogers – which offers service in the country under the Rogers and Fido brands – has [...]

Link: Consumer Data Bolt On – Tariffs – Mobiles & Tariffs – O2
SMS Text News reader Barry got in touch just now to highlight O2’s rather stupid ‘unlimited’ data offering. They’re trying to hard to match similar options from T-Mobile and Three, but manage to completely screw it up by throwing in loads of conditions [...]

Ever fancied getting your hands on a really cool .mobi domain name, but found it was taken? You might be in luck, as some of the 5,500 commonly used words the registry ‘reserved’ before offering registrations to the public are to be auctioned off  via Sedo starting this Wednesday.
“The mobile web is bigger than the [...]

Link: O2 to join flat rate club – www.mobile-ent.biz
Mobile Entertainment are reporting that O2 are about to launch a flat rate data plan in the UK – although quite when that’ll be (and how much it’ll cost) is anyone’s guess..
An O2 insider said: “O2 will offer wholesale data, but we think most of the problems [...]