Vodafone’s magnanimous gesture in waiving roaming charges over the summer amounted to a nifty bit of misdirection – few noticed that it also slipped out some radical changes to the price of data for the traveller who can’t be without their email.
The changes to the cost of roamed data were posted onto the company website [...]

Carphone Warehouse is to buy the UK assets of Italian internet service provider Tiscali for £236m.
The deal, which is expected to be completed by the end of June, will create the UK’s largest home broadband provider with 4.25m subscribers.
Tiscali had previously been in talks with BSkyB, but negotiations broke down earlier this year.
Carphone Warehouse currently provides broadband [...]

Orange UK set to take a bite out of O2’s Apple.
According to the people over at theiphoneblog, the Apple iPhone 3G (possibly the new refreshed version) has appeared on Orange’s internal systems.
This could mean that the new refreshed iPhone’s which are due to go onsale this June will no longer be exclusive to O2 UK.
No [...]

With T-Mobile’s financial results coming this week and expected to show big losses, will a merger with 3 be the next move for owners Deutsche Telekom?

In anticipation of T-Mobile’s first quarter results this week, rumours are rife that the UK arm of German company Deutsche Telekom will have to be sold, or at least merged, to survive.
Losses for the company, estimated [...]

 
Because our network has been designed and built for the Mobile Internet, we can give you free Skype-to-Skype calls and Instant Messages (IM’s) from your mobile, something that the other networks aren’t doing.
HOW DO WE OFFER IT FOR FREE?
On other mobile phone networks customers have to pay for using the internet data needed to access [...]