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ExclusiveLast week at The Fonecast: 16th January 2012

Mark Bridge writes:

So that’s CES week over. This year’s show seemed particularly US-centric, given the amount of 4G LTE mobile technology kicking about. Not that the UK isn’t making its own 4G plans; far from it. But let’s start at the beginning...

ExclusiveIndian mobile phone app aims to thwart sexual assaults

Kurt Achin of voanews.com writes:

In India's burgeoning economy, more and more women are going to work in offices - exposing them to what can sometimes be dangerous urban conditions. Now, a new technological initiative aims to protect women against sexual assault.

ExclusivePromote your business at Mobile World Congress with The Fonecast

Mark Bridge writes:

Another year, another Mobile World Congress!

It’s something of a cliché to talk about the months flying by, how it seems like yesterday when everyone in Barcelona had a Nokia handset and the dancers on the CBOSS stand were all wearing full-length evening dresses. Yet it’s also true. Except for that part about the dancers, anyway.

Here at TheFonecast.com we’ve had a busy 12 months that have seen us talking to more and more people, gaining a much larger audience and watching the mobile industry grow dramatically.

ExclusiveWill the CES trend for larger screens lead to poorer mobile web sites?

James Rosewell writes:

This year’s CES event in Las Vegas promises to be the biggest yet. There’ll be mobile phones, there’ll be tablets, there’ll be gaming devices, there’ll be sat nav – and there’ll be many other products that now include their own mobile data connection.

When you’ve got mobile data, it’s usually an obvious step to add a browser... and before you know it, consumers are browsing the internet from a device that was never really intended to visit conventional web sites.

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Ofcom says mobile contracts should ditch inflation-related price rises
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Ofcom says mobile contracts should ditch inflation-related price rises

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UK telecoms regulator Ofcom wants to ban inflation-related rises in telecoms contracts. Instead, it says any potential mid-contract price rises should be set out in pounds and pence.

Many phone, broadband and pay TV companies currently increase their customers’ tariffs in line with a percentage formula linked to inflation. For example, a company might tell customers it will increase their monthly bill every April by the Retail Price Index.

However, as the rate of inflation and the RPI will vary from year to year, Ofcom says customers are required to commit to a contract without being certain about the prices they will pay.

As a result, Ofcom wants potential price rises during a contract to be defined in terms of specific amounts rather than percentages.

Its proposed new rule would require any prices and price rises in a customer’s contract to be set out in pounds and pence, prominently and transparently, at the point of sale. This would prevent providers from including inflation-linked or percentage-based price rise terms in new contracts.

Ofcom’s consultation is open until 13th February 2024, with a final decision expected in spring 2024.

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