Pat Phelan: Bits, bytes and telecomsMobile, Roaming and Social Media

Carriers never fail to shock me, even in a week where T-Mobile block Skype on the iPhone I thought I had seen it all, until now
“AT&T Wireless terms of service now explicitly prohibit “downloading movies using P2P file sharing services”
AT&T changes TOS to limit mobile video
I know someone will probably kick my ass in the [...]

This just about sums up the attitude of large mobile carriers to their customers.
Tamara Granger doesn’t make her calls from the correct area to suit her mobile carrier so it just fired her.
She pays her bills on time, doesn’t cause them any hassle, is not a pain in the butt to the carrier like I [...]

This train of thought came about as a result of a few comments on a recent post.
With the Iphone V2 3G now being almost a certainty Apple are going to have a major problem on its hand with all the early adopters suffering from a large dose of penis envy regarding their friends new 3G [...]

Whispers emerging from AT&T suggest that the new 3G iPhone will retail @ $199 with a two year contact.
With 18 months in Ireland and 24 months in the UK now being the average mobile phone contract length are we going to see an iPhone break the £100 mark in the UK?
The phone at this price [...]