Mark Bridge writes:
It’s always a relief when April Fool’s Day doesn’t fall on a work day, isn’t it? Still, that didn’t stop the jokes. Even though the mobile industry traditionally tends to head to the pub for a roast dinner and a pint on Sunday, there was many a prank in the morning of April 1st.
Our friends at 51Degrees.mobi revealed left-handed device detection, Google prepared to run mobile ads on phones with dials, Phones 4U introduced Gnomes 4U femtocells, Nokia made a Windows Phone device out of ice… and so on.
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O2 UK has announced a new tariff called On & On.
Prices start from £26 a month for unlimited calls to mobiles and landlines in the UK plus unlimited text messages to UK-based numbers. The deal also includes 1GB of data that can be used in any way, including tethering and streaming.
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Research from The Stevenson Company in the USA has revealed an increase in smartphone sales on prepaid and ‘pay monthly’ tariffs.
The company’s latest TraQline Wireless report confirms that more than 50% of all mobile phone purchases are now smartphones.
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T-Mobile UK has announced that it’ll be increasing some of its prices from 9th May 2012.
Customers on most ‘pay monthly’ contracts will have their basic monthly charge increased by 3.7%.
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A new way of dealing with calls when ‘roaming’ abroad in Europe could be introduced in a couple of years - and new charges could arrive in July 2012. That’s the message from the European Commission, which has just announced a preliminary deal on new EU Roaming rules.
The European Parliament is expected to approve this agreement in May 2012, with the Council of the European Union expected to give its approval in June. The new rules could then become law on 1st July 2012.
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