This week's edition of The Fonecast takes its regular look at the biggest news stories affecting the UK mobile industry, from Symbian's dramatic reorganisation to Facebook's location-based ambitions. In addition we talk to Peter Gradwell, founder of Gradwell Mobile, about the way his company puts fixed-line numbers on mobile phones.
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Ofcom has published its initial research into mobile 'not-spots'. It's described these as a priority area and has identified five distinct types of problems in the UK:
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Telecoms regulator Ofcom is warning consumers to check they aren’t owed money when they switch to a new communications provider. It estimates at least £10 million has been unclaimed in the past two years; that's around £5 for every customers who's switched to a different landline, mobile, broadband or pay TV provider.
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UK communications regulator Ofcom will be merged with postal services regulator Postcomm as part of the UK government's cost-cutting plans. In addition, a number of Ofcom's duties are to be changed or removed.
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This week's podcast discusses changes at the top in Nokia, reorganisation at Vodafone and more power for 3G transmitters. There's also a report from the Qualcomm IQ2010 event in London, where Mark Bridge talks to Melanie Honnor about mobile TV and learns about Qualcomm's mobile developer platform from Tia Cassett.
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