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

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 »

In a move which was prompted by a change in the European laws regarding mobile phone roaming charges, 3 have stolen a major march on their competitors by announcing price reductions above and beyond what the EU regulators requested. They have announced plans to cut phone charges for those travelling to EU countries, to just Read the rest of this entry »

While mobile handset broadband is still some way off for the masses, 3 have taken a step in the right direction with the introduction of a mobile broadband service for use on laptops and home computers. In what many see as a stepping stone towards the introduction of a fully mobile handset broadband service in due course, 3 have cleverly begun to Read the rest of this entry »

While recent events, publicity and general feeling in the UK have been leaning towards a period of greater investment into the 3 network by parent company Hutchinson Whampoa, these impressions were cast into doubt last night with news that the company’s Italian division, 3 Italia, is up for sale. While Hutchinson have always expressed an interest in hiving off the Italian arm of the network (narrowly failing to float the business on the Italian stock market in 2006), what does this mean for the future? 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 »