In this week's edition of The Fonecast we're chatting to David Emm, senior security researcher at Kaspersky Lab UK, about the security threats facing mobile phone users.
We also discuss the latest report from mobile tariff comparison site Billmonitor, we talk about Tuesday's Symbian news, we look at a new unlimited internet deal and we discover a clutch of MVNOs.
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News International, which owns the News of the World newspaper, has admitted liability in a number of 'voicemail hacking' cases. Several claimants have been offered an apology; the company is also setting up a compensation fund to pay claims.
Allegations of unauthorised access to mobile phone voicemail accounts first came to light in 2006, when a News of the World reporter was arrested.
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ABI Research has estimated that more than seven trillion SMS messages will be sent worldwide in 2011. With nearly 4.2 billion mobile subscriptions worldwide, that’s theoretically approaching five text messages per phone per day.
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Vodafone's One Net service, which combines fixed-line and mobile communications for businesses, now has one million users in Europe. The One Net service allows users to answer calls on either their fixed or mobile phones, with the ability to transfer calls between any phones within the business and retrieve messages from a combined voicemail box.
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Mobile technology company Silent Communication has licensed its Visual Voice Mail software to Sony Ericsson. This means that Sony Ericsson now has the ability to offer 'visual voicemail' on every phone in its range, regardless of operating system and network operator.
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