If device manufacturers such as Samsung and Apple included SIM cards with their devices that were not tied to a specific provider, the mobile communications business could change fundamentally. The Dutch regulatory authority has opened up possibilities for this.
— Read more at http://www.golem.de/news/soft-sim-sim-karten-ohne-provider-bindung-kommen-1403-105168.html
Who hasn’t experienced it: no or poor mobile reception in an important place, such as at home or in the office. Often you have to go outside to make a call or stand with the phone pressed to your ear against a window. Incoming calls are also difficult to receive unless the phone is constantly kept in a spot with at least some reception.
This article on Golem.de shows how Google makes money from fibre connections in the USA. Dear “Drosselkom”, you could learn a thing or two from that! Google may only be rolling out these connections in metropolitan areas, but Telekom also claims that throttling was introduced because expanding the access network is expensive – and most connections are naturally located in urban areas. More background and information on how much one GB of traffic costs Telekom can be found in another Golem article.
According to heise.de, Deutsche Telekom could “run into trouble with the Federal Cartel Office over its planned internet DSL tariffs with flat-rate throttling”. The issue under scrutiny is not throttling after a certain data volume has been consumed, but the exclusion of certain services from throttling, which could still cause problems for Telekom. Here is the link to the article …
At this link, Berliner Zeitung reports in advance on the new O2 smartphone tariffs. From now on, every new tariff includes an all-network flat rate for calls and SMS. The tariffs differ only in terms of data usage. Definitely revolutionary, in my view.
This Time in My Highlight Links: Samsung’s methods for conquering the world, the nasty tactics used by Deutsche Telekom call centres and a report about a new LTE chip that […]
