Richard is the founder of SoMobile and is focussed on saving money for the site’s visitors. He is particularly interested in special deals from networks and retailers and also mobile phone related business news. When he’s not at work, you’ll find him drinking pina coladas and getting caught in the rain.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 has been reliably holding the top spot on SoMobile for over a month now. We wanted to highlight one of the best and most popular deals that we have on the site right now. The top selling Galaxy S3 deal on O2 right now includes unlimited minutes and unlimited texts as well as 1GB [...]
According to a report in the Sunday Times (which you won’t be able to read unless you subscribe), GCHQ, the UK Government Communications Headquarters are to be given the legal power and technical ability to access information about every phone call, text message, email and website access made in the UK. As reiterated in The [...]
Yesterday Ofcom published a notice that they have in principle agreed to allow Everything Everywhere (the parent company of Orange UK and T-Mobile UK) to use some of their 1800 MHz spectrum licenses for LTE and WiMAX. Confusingly, 1800 MHz is used in the UK for 2G mobile networks, and this change in the license [...]
Earlier this week, Eurotunnel announced a deal with French mobile networks Bouygues Telecom, Orange, SFR and Free to install a 2G and 3G phone system in the Channel Tunnel. Despite the reverse wording in the press release, the agreement covers the tunnel running north from France to the UK, and will allow mobile phone users [...]
Orange has published a press release discussing their research on the lack of people using their landlines, because they want to make a call to mobile phones and are afraid of the cost. Based on a sample of over 2000 British adults, the results were as follows: 29% refuse to call mobiles from a landline [...]
Vodafone and Visa announced on Monday a global partnership between the companies allowing Vodafone customers to use their mobile phone to pay at any NFC equipped Visa terminals. This uses Visa’s existing PayWave equipment, branded in the UK as Contactless. The idea is that wherever customers can currently pay by just touching their credit card [...]
This morning we received an oh-so exciting press release from Orange about their initiatives to improve the transparency of roaming (what you pay to use another network when you’ve got an Orange UK SIM card in your phone, but you’re not in the UK). None of the concepts are glamorous, but they are interesting as [...]
Virgin Media is reportedly planning to trial mobile network “cells” that run the LTE standard of high speed connectivity, that fits (debatably) into the exciting sounding classification of 4G. Virgin Mobile runs on the Everything Everywhere (Orange and T-Mobile) networks, so this report surprised us somewhat. Could Virgin be thinking about creating their own physical [...]
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