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This is funny, exciting and fun all at the same time.
Someone asked me something today about Charlie Schick. I check out his blog (I am subscribed to his internal Nokia blogs and also his external blogs).
I see a really interesting and useful post about mobile tinyurls, and mobile browsing.
I did some wavesurfing (following outward links) […]

Pat Phelan of Cubic Telecom, and Roam4Free fame is off in Vancouver at the moment and he sent back for news from the coalface.
Cubic Telecom and Celtrak Global Roaming are joining technical and logistic forces to release new services to overcome the monoply traditional mobile operators have had in the roaming/long-distance calling business since the […]

If I had a few of this phrases the first time I went to Finland, I would have saved myself some problems.
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A pint of Lapin kulta please - Pistä yks Lapin Kulta, kiitos.
Winter is my favourite season - Talvi on mun lempivuodenaika.
I love taking saunas - Mä tykkää saunoa.
Would you mind swatting me with birch […]

For work we use Checkpoints VPN-1 SecureClient (NIRA VPN) access for remote secure connection to the corporate network.
We also use iPass for assured WiFi connection to multi-vendor WiFi networks.
This week in Helsinki I was staying in the Radisson SAS hotel (great as always), and was trying to use the Sonera “homerun” WiFi network.
My laptop was […]

I thought this was my mistake, but it seems like its setup by Vodafone.
Vodafone give subscribers 300 free text messages when they log into their website. A simple-ish web interface. Enter the message and the number and Bob’s your uncle (of course they don’t guarantee delivery, but hea, thats all SMS traffic anyway..more or less).
But […]

My Cubic Telecom WiFi/GSM phone arrived yesterday. Thank you Pat for sending one on to me. I promise I won’t drop it in the loo

Cubic Telecom, I’m sure is pretty famous now within the various blogging/t’Internet circles.
The Cubic phone, Pirelli Discus DualPhone DP L10, is manufactured by Pirelli, yes the tyre […]

The Economist has a very good article on the current state and future of big telecoms hardware manufacturers (the Alcatel-Lucents, the Ericssons, the Nokia Siemens Networks, the Huaweis, the ZTC, the Nortels etc), specifically Alcatel-Lucent’s results and their plan for the future.
The Economist has it spot on. AlcaCent’s news in September disappointed its saying they […]

NTT DoCoMo admits to crisis over subscriber losses: “A senior executive at NTT DoCoMo said on Thursday the Japanese mobile carrier is in crisis over subscriber losses in the last year.”
NTT DoCoMo admits to crisis over subscriber losses: “Despite the subscriber losses NTT DoCoMo isn’t in danger of losing its top spot anytime soon. With […]