Category: mobile network operators

Happy Mothers Day to all you mothers out there!

This past week has been a busy week for posts, it seems like. I even managed a post on my internal Nokia blog this week. …

I did an interesting experiment the other day–I tried dialing 0 for a number of phones. What does dialing 0 do? In the United States and Canada, dialing zero was how you reached the operator. You needed the operator to …

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I recently had a chance to talk to a manager of one of the …

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Ok, this has come up again. Deutsche Telecom, the company that owns T-Mobile in the U.S., is supposedly …

Monday, I got an email–out of the blue–from Leanne Tremblay, a.k.a. VoIPGirl. Apparently, she’s been busy with her other business to be blogging about VoIP. However, she did …

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The folks at the CTIA–the asscociation, not the trade show–are …

Source: WikipediaI got an interesting email from the inbox for The Mobile Technology Weblog …

Amazing, the comments I posted to this post on the CTIA blog got posted! One of them even got responded to. Someone must be asleep at the switch.

Carriers don’t block text messages between users, they say. They probably …

We like to think–perhaps naively–that nobody can track where we are on our mobile phone. The fact of the matter is, the cell providers have to know where you are …

I am not aware of anyone suggesting that carriers are actually blocking text messages. That’s something common carriers would not be allowed to do under the U.S. laws, anyway.

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