Twitter has announced partnerships with the Iridium and Thuraya satellite phone services to give their customers access to Twitter via SMS.
It means the service is now available without any need for land-based communication.
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T-Mobile UK has announced a new tariff that’ll let customers make unlimited calls, send unlimited texts, and use the mobile internet as much as they want without any ‘fair use’ restrictions.
The deal is called The Full Monty and will be available on all phones in the T-Mobile UK range from Wednesday 1st February 2012.
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The number of mobile banking users worldwide will reach 530 million by 2013, up from just over 300 million last year, according to a new report from Juniper Research.
It says mobile services are becoming a fundamental component of banks’ business strategies as they respond to the current economic climate.
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Three UK is reporting a six-fold increase in the amount of smartphone data on its network during New Year’s Eve 2011.
In a blog post, Nigel Field - Three’s Director of Devices - says the company recorded 14 Terabytes of data on 31st December 2010. On the same day in 2011, usage had increased to 80TB.
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Mark Bridge writes:
Happy New Year and welcome to the travelling circus better known as the Carnival of the Mobilists. If you’re looking for the best mobile-related blog posts from the past couple of weeks, you’ve come to the right place. (If you’re wondering about the name of Beyonce’s baby, you need to try somewhere else).
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