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Dog tracking company Retrieva does European mobile roaming deal

Retrieva, the UK-based company that produces dog tracking collars with built-in GPS tracking, has announced a deal with specialist virtual mobile network Podsystem.

It’ll allow Retrieva to use Podsystem’s MultiNet Europe SIM cards for a premium roaming service that’ll simplify costs and will allow European owners to track their dogs across national borders.

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This week's podcast: bill shock, mobile music, patent wars and much more

In this week’s edition of The Fonecast we start with an ombudsman’s plea to sort out ‘unlimited’ data tariffs in the UK. We then move on to mobile music before covering mobile wallets, mobile gaming and the mobile patent wars. There’s even time for a little digital art.

As always, you can listen to the programme on our website audio player, via iTunes, by subscribing to our RSS feed or by downloading the MP3.

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Podcast - 23rd November 2011

We're squeezing plenty of news into this week's podcast, starting with a warning about so-called 'unlimited' data tariffs and ending with a new online gallery that hopes to put art into smartphones.

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Over half of UK users are 'unhappy' with mobile broadband speeds

A new poll of over 1,500 people by UK comparison website Broadband Genie has found that most users are unhappy with the speed of their mobile broadband connection. In fact, just 5.3% of users said they were definitely happy with their mobile broadband speed.

A further 15.8% described it as OK, while 56.8% said they were unhappy.

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PlayStation Vita will be pre-loaded with a Vodafone SIM card

The forthcoming PlayStation Vita gaming device will be supplied with a Vodafone SIM card in selected countries when it launches next February.

A new partnership with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe means that Vodafone will be the ‘preferred provider’ of 3G connectivity for the 3G+WiFi version of the PS Vita in the UK, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Spain, Portugal, Australia, New Zealand and the Netherlands.

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