Both 3 and T-mobile have struggled to compete with the big guns of O2 and Vodafone. 3 in particular has found it difficult to gain a large market share due to consumer concerns about its coverage. So it’s no surprise to hear that T-mobile and 3 and going to join forces in an attempt to increase their coverage without increasing their costs. They plan to merge their network, effectively filling gaps in their coverage. It is claimed that the deal will save both companies about £1 billion due to the fact they no longer have to set-up and install costly mobile phone masts in lots of new areas.

By joining forces they hope to massively increase their coverage, reduce costs and give them a fighting chance against the likes of Vodafone and O2. The deal means that 3 and T-mobile now have the Europe’s largest HSDPA network.

The two companies will continue to operate independently with neither owning the other; in fact they will still be fierce rivals. They will only be sharing their 3G networks.

The first full VoIP mobile phone (3SkypePhone) has only just been launched but already a professional research agency is forecasting that there will be 250 million users of 3G VoIP by 2012, compared with less than 100 million for voice on Wi-Fi. Considering how new VoIP on 3G is it strange to think that it will be more popular than VoIP via Wi-Fi. Read the rest of this entry »

The 3SkypePhone is certainly a revolutionary mobile phone but is it any good? I just been digging around the internet and found some interesting reviews. The idea behind the 3 Skype phone is that you can now make free Skype-to-Skype calls, on a mobile phone, over Three’s 3G network. Read the rest of this entry »

The Google Phone (gPhone) is the most hotly awaited mobile phone since, well… the iPhone, which is going to be released in the UK on the 9th Nov 2007. Every other week a new “leaked” story comes about the Google phone sayingthat is will be released within the next two weeks. All of these stories have been wrong, but now the sources are getting better and Google’s share price went up by over $3 billion following the latest “leaked” story in the Wall Street Journal. They are even some saying that there will never be a google phone, only a google mobile platform. Read the rest of this entry »

The first truly mobile Skype phone will be launched on the UK 3 network on the 2nd November 2007, see phone picture above. The new mobile phone offers free calls to Skype’s 246 million registered customers around the world, plus all calls to other 3Skypephones will be free at anytime too. Read the rest of this entry »

The stylish Samsung G600 is one of the hottest handset of 2007. It has almost everything, a 5 Mega-pixel, a super slim form (its the slimmest 5 mp camera phone in the UK), autofocus, xenon flash, mp3 player, FM radio, but sadly it’s only 2.5g. Well there is no need to be sad anymore, Samsung are planning to launch a 3g version of the G600, it will be called the Samsung G800.

There is no offical announcement or launch date, Read the rest of this entry »

Amazing by 2011 more people are expected to use Mobile broadband than fixed line. Informa Telecoms & Media, a UK based research company carried out the research, which indicates there will be more than one billion broadband subscribers worldwide in 2011, with the majority using mobile rather than fixed systems.

Increased adoption will also lead to bigger revenues, Read the rest of this entry »

3 still hasn’t officially confirmed the partnership yet, but its been one of the worst kept secrets in the mobile phone industry. The deal will mean that 3 will sell Skype’s first mobile phone. Timescales haven’t been released but it expected to be live available before Christmas.

A Skype spokesman said that 3 and Skype “are working together on Read the rest of this entry »

The mobile phone network 3 UK have announced that more 33% of their 3 million UK customers customers have registered to use its free-to-access mobile video service. The new service allows mobile-phone users to watch entertainment, news and music clips on their own mobile phone. The content is free once the user has watched a short advertisement. The service is powered by Rhythm NewMedia

Rhythm NewMedia offers turnkey mobile advertising solutions, including Read the rest of this entry »

After the recent news that the Italian arm may be about to be sold off, there is some confusion in the UK market as to the future of the 3 Network, just at a time when the networks public profile is growing.  So what really is going on at 3? Is the whole network for sale, or are Hutchinson Whampoa just selling off the less profitable sides of the business?

Even if the company’s parent company are just selling off the non profitable operations, it does seem a little strange to Read the rest of this entry »