Research published this week suggests that mobile internet browsing is being shunned by three in four mobile users because of concerns over cost and poor service.
Analysts at Essential Research claim that despite hype surrounding the success of the iPhone, and other top of the range smartphones, the mass market is far from feeling comfortable with [...]

Vodafone will see in the New Year with a concerted push to encourage pay-as-you-go customers to use data to coincide with its launch of the iPhone.
Although the network has not announced a date when it is allowed to start selling the iconic smartphone, it is widely believed to be from the first week of January [...]

Mobile operator 3 says that, due to poor 3G coverage in some areas, some of its customers are unable to even carry out basic web surfing – and it’s revealed how its going to do something about it. Meanwhile, rival firm Virgin Media has unveiled its new “super fast” modem for mobile broadband, featuring a potential top speed that’s double that of its existing offering.

A report from the All Party Parliamentary Commons Group (Appcom) which calls on ISPs to filter the Net for malware and to put child-protection on mobile devices has met with some bemusement among internet providers.
On the one hand, TalkTalk and other ISPs have reported they are pleased with the report urging the government to reconsider [...]

The Ashes approaching and then reaching a dramatic climax at the same time as the Premier League season got underway has given Sky a record number of new customers for its Sky Sports and News mobile television package as well as its 24-7 football goals and highlights service.
The surge in interest is bound to put [...]

Mobile broadband has turned out to be a contentious issue since the publication of Lord Carter’s Digital Britain report. While many broadband experts and campaigners claimed there was too much of a reliance on wireless, Julian McGougan from Arquiva claims there was not nearly enough.
The company is the country’s largest independent provider of mobile cell [...]

Everyone’s got their own opinion of the Digital Britain report, whether or not they’ve actually read it. Over the past couple of weeks Westminster Forums has been getting together various experts to see if any kind of consensus can be reached. Samknows.com brings you the highlights.

OFCOM has published predicted coverage maps for each of the UK’s five 3G mobile operators.

Plans to use ‘digital dividend’ spectrum, freed up by switching off analogue tv, to bring mobile broadband to not spots have two fatal flaws, according to the former Chief Strategy Officer at the GSM Association, Ameet Shah.
Not only will auctioning the airwaves in equal licences leave mobile operators with services that are not economically viable, [...]

Vodafone and O2 can breathe a sigh of relief. A Government spectrum farming report has decided that neither company should be forced to give up any of its most valuable mobile broadband spectrum. However, the carrot of spectrum released by switching off analogue tv in 2012 remains in front of the pair to tempt them [...]

OFCOM are having another go at achieving consensus on liberalising the use of some mobile phone spectrum with a view to promoting competition and innovation. At the same time Lord Carter has appointed Kip Meek as a “Captain Scarlet” figure to head the challenge to the Mysterons of the mobile phone companies. Meek has been [...]

Sylvain Thevenot can understand why many people believe his appointment last autumn as TalkTalk’s senior director of products and strategy means the ISP is aiming to launch a mobile broadband service.
After all, he comes direct from Vodafone where he worked across Europe rolling out new messaging and voice products, most notably answer phone messages [...]

The EU’s plans to slash mobile broadband roaming charges from next July has met with mixed reactions from the telecommunications industry with some saying the new rules are draconian and others, such as 3, saying they do not go far enough.
The measures, approved by EU telecommunications ministers yesterday, will limit the amount one operator can [...]

Mobile broadband is not just about the handset and the connection but also what people can do with that connection.
If proof were needed one need only look at the success of the iPhone App Store which Apple founder Steve Jobs claims achieved 100m downloads of games and applications within just two months of its July [...]

Mobile broadband demand has rocketed sales of cut down laptops, called netbooks, which within a year of launch now account for 10% of the European PC market.
Figures from IDC and Gartners are predicting further massive growth for the small laptop devices which offer cut-price connectivity without the massive processing power and memory capabilities of top [...]

O2 has kicked off a mobile broadband promotions war which will dominate broadband deals this summer and early autumn.
Until the end of October customers taking out its mobile broadband product for £20 per month will now get free home broadband for a year as long as they live with the O2 Home Broadband Network, which [...]