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

At last a move in Europe for Mobile
Virgin France have taken the lead and launched a voice/data/sms plan.
The fully unlimited option, including calls, SMS, internet up to 500 MB, e-mail and Messenger. It costs EUR 89 per month with no contract or handset.
Although it seems all is not well according to Novelobs
Virgin is an MVNO [...]

I have heard from numerous sources over the past few weeks that O2/Telefonica are considering removing all handset subsidies next year.
Would this be a good thing?
If you look at the global market I think the only market for subsidized handsets should be the countries where the carriers are just developing the market other than that [...]

This is going to be absolutely huge.
Nokia Build
Nokia now allows it customer to totally personalize their handsets. At present its limited to the 7310 Supernova but I expect it to spread to other models asap.

Nike id has been been an incredible success for Nike and I can guarantee that Nokia will spread this across its [...]

At last the news that a lot of O2 customers have been waiting for.
The N95 8GB is finally available.

Pricing (below) is pretty ok although as far as I am aware Vodafone made a huge reduction to the pricing for the same phone this week, cant seem to confirm that yet though.
O2 customers will love this [...]