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 »