The Mobile by Sainsbury’s service, which was set up earlier this month as a joint venture with Vodafone UK, has announced its pricing.
As well as offering a basic ‘pay as you go’ mobile phone service with standard calls at 8p per minute and text messages costing 4p each, there are also three 30-day allowances.
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Podcast - 24th July 2013
We start this week's show by discussing the recent quarterly results from Google, Nokia, Vodafone and Microsoft.
There's also time to talk about SIM security, Ubuntu's crowd-funded smartphone, the HTC One mini, smart watches and an unusual process for recharging your phone battery.
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Vodafone’s latest quarterly results show the company’s European businesses suffering from what it calls ‘increased competitive intensity’. Overall, group service revenue including joint ventures reached £10.16 billion.
That’s a 2.5% increase year-on-year but the organic figure - excluding events such as acquisitions - shows a 3.5% drop.
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Online payment specialist mopay has introduced a new service that lets customers charge web site purchases to their mobile phone account with a single click.
The new process is currently being offered via Telefonica and Vodafone in Germany.
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Vodafone UK has told its ‘pay as you go’ customers that it’s moving away from charging for standard calls by the second.
From 1st August, customers will be charged per full minute for calls to UK landlines and mobiles.
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