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If there was one thing you could change, what would it be?

A thought I’ve pondered over a lot. If I had my way I would change a lot (not only in Mobile), but in the rest of the world. But let’s forget about that; let’s think purely Mobile, purely communications, and sales. What would you change? What has to annoy me the most with mobiles, especially here [...]

Published Wed, Sep 09 2008 8:48 AM by Mobile Industry Review

Filed under: Mobile, SMS, sales, branding, applications, Annoying, People, Operators, Opinion, satisfaction, locking, innovation, change, Samantha, Models

AT&T hikes text costs by 33%; Users don’t give a toss

The “more bars in more places” mobile network operator has summarily increased the cost of text messaging from $0.15 to $0.20 for out of bundle text messages. Why? Because they can. Nobody cares. Americans don’t care. Individual Americans — some who have been emailing this site — certainly care, but [...]

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 8:42 PM by SMS Text News

Filed under: SMS, Annoying

15 years of texting; big deal; next!

Six people emailed 3 people got me on instant messenger 11 people have skyped me 7 people have texted me 2 people have phoned me Why? To ask why I haven’t posted anything about the 15-year anniversary of the text message. I got a story in from Airwide about it - their chap, Neil Papworth, was the first to send a [...]

Published Fri, Dec 12 2007 10:16 AM by SMS Text News

Filed under: SMS, Annoying

plusCONNECT can’t be bothered; Operations Manager is on holiday

I called mobile service provider plusCONNECT this afternoon in relation to a story I’m doing on mobile music. A friend of mine sent me a Facebook message asking for me to download music from his friend’s unsigned band — and to do so (and pay) via text message. Neat. Social networking and [...]

Published Wed, Nov 11 2007 12:45 PM by SMS Text News

Filed under: SMS, Annoying, Aggregators

ITV in ’stating the bleeding obvious’ shocker

Link: BBC NEWS | Entertainment | ITV ‘misled viewers on phone-ins’ So TV broadcaster ITV have just finished an internal A review into their use of premium SMS and phone services.. and guess what? They’ve figured that they screwed up, and overcharged a stack of people. Ok so they didn’t exactly say those words - preferring [...]

Published Thu, Oct 10 2007 6:41 AM by SMS Text News

Filed under: SMS, Annoying

Daily Mail readers h8 txt msgs

Link: I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language | the Daily Mail It must be a slow news day over at the Daily Mail. With no apparent stories of immigrants stealing our jobs, paedophiles ravaging our kids or any other general threat to the pretend ‘la la land’ middle England readership that the [...]

Published Mon, Sep 09 2007 6:25 AM by SMS Text News

Filed under: SMS, Annoying

‘Smishing’ outbreak hits Canadian town

Link: BCNG Portals Page (R) Welcome to the picturesque town of Maple Ridge, about 45 minutes East of Vancouver. Surrounded by magnificent mountains, pastoral meadows and beautiful lakes, it’s a great place to take a vacation (so says the area website). However, bad things are afoot in Maple Ridge. Residents are getting worrying text messages telling [...]

Published Wed, Aug 08 2007 9:50 PM by SMS Text News

Filed under: SMS, Annoying

T-Mobile USA text timestamp problem in Denver

This is quite an interesting one sent in my an SMS Text News reader and T-Mobile USA customer who can’t quite understand why his 160 character text messages are being delivered with wildly inaccurate timestamps. Any ideas? I am not sure if you are aware of this, but shortly after the time change in March, those of [...]

Published Thu, Jul 07 2007 7:32 PM by SMS Text News

Filed under: T-Mobile, SMS, president, Annoying, arizona, mailed, incoming, nokes, denver, stamped, march

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If there was one thing you could change, what would it be?

AT&T hikes text costs by 33%; Users don’t give a toss

15 years of texting; big deal; next!

plusCONNECT can’t be bothered; Operations Manager is on holiday

ITV in ’stating the bleeding obvious’ shocker

Daily Mail readers h8 txt msgs

‘Smishing’ outbreak hits Canadian town

T-Mobile USA text timestamp problem in Denver