RingGo, which is used for around three-quarters of all the UK’s pay-by-phone parking, has acquired US-based iControl Mobile. It’ll trade under the iControl name for a short while before moving to the RingGo brand.
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New international research from GfK shows that most smartphone owners are currently ‘keeping their options open’ when thinking about their next smartphone purchase.
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This week's edition of The Fonecast has a strong retail flavour. There's talk of subsidised iPads arriving in the UK on Orange and T-Mobile, along with joint-branded shops from the two brands. We hear about the appearance of a stand-along Tesco Phone Shop in Bristol, we discover that a fifth of UK consumers will be doing some form of mobile Christmas shopping this year and we contemplate Acer's new app store.
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Orange and T-Mobile have both announced subsidised pricing for the Apple iPad when bought with a two-year ‘pay monthly’ contract. The devices are expected to go on sale in the next week or two.
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Vodafone UK is introducing two new European data roaming options on Wednesday 1st December.
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