Facebook is pushing ahead with the launch of a crazy new paid messaging service in the UK, which sees users charged up to £10 a time to send unsolicited messages to celebrities and other people not already on their friends list. Read More >>
The average UK user of iTunes has spent £345 buying/leasing a digital music and media collection through Apple's servers, according to a survey that tracked people's iOS spending habits. Read More >>
Featured comment by CaptainLove:
"Pray tell, how does switching to a different platform suddenly make apps and copyrighted music and video free?" More »
We may regularly be up in arms whenever something starts costing an extra pound or two, but when compared against the major economies of Europe and the US, we actually pay the least per month when it comes to sorting out our phone, TV and internet needs. Read More >>
Featured comment by Steven:
"We've got something similar. Just cancelled Sky a few months back and we're now just relying on freeview plus our internet and phone package (£23 a m..." More »
In terms of cost per kilobyte of data, the Earth-based telecoms companies are charging us more per byte of data than the cost of communicating with Mars. Try wheeling that statistic out the next time you're trying to blag an upgrade. Read More >>
Featured comment by Sabashe_to_the_MAX:
"I think that's a bit unfair, he did acknowledge it was a simple comparison. Plus I think it's fairly obvious that they're getting their cost/text from..." More »
A rather shocking leaked document from next-gen broadband delivery agency BDUK claims BT's been fiddling the figures, with the national network needlessly boosting its fibre installation costs to help grab bigger subsidies. Read More >>
Featured comment by spank86:
"Pretty much, although there can be local costs to installing cabinets and/or hooking them up to power and its not always as straightforward as a cost ..." More »
Component supplier guesstimates have given us a rough idea of how much it costs Apple to make the iPhone 5, with the cheapest 16GB costing Apple around £127 in bits and manufacturing fees to build. It's going to make a nice bit of money out of it, to say the least. Read More >>
Featured comment by ryankett:
"Why are my fellow Brits so pathetically stupid that thousands of them can read this article, dozens of them can comment, and not one can ask the quest..." More »
T-Mobile has joined O2, Vodafone and Three in offering a capped mobile data plan for travellers, so its users don't end up with a £150 phone bill for daring to send a horrified Tweet from the streets of Magaluf. Read More >>
Featured comment by raven:
"It was cheaper to get their (vodafones) £10 a month deal for 25mb per day and then cancel it when you get back, ive done this for the past 2 years ho..." More »
Fresh from losing a critical battle in its fight with Google over Java and Android, Oracle has now been shamed a little more thanks to the judge ordering it to pay Google's legal fees. Read More >>
O2 has launched a new bolt-on mobile package it's calling O2 Travel, which gives its monthly contract and pre-pay customers a cross-European bundle of calls and mobile data for a fixed price of £1.99 a day. Read More >>
The UK's regulator of communications wants to simplify the minefield that is mobile phone calling fees, amending the rules so that calls to 0800 numbers are free from mobile phones as well as land lines. Read More >>
Featured comment by Ballboy:
"Welcome news, but don't hold your breath. Ocfcom are going to make a decision on it in 2013! It will then take the mobile operators' a year or two to ..." More »
If you want to know the time, don't bother asking a policeman any more. Figures released by London's Met Police show that officers built up £35,000 in phone bills simply from calling the speaking clock service to find out if it's dinner time yet. Read More >>
The director of the newly launched Government Digital Service project has revealed that one in five calls to government helplines were triggered by failed attempts to use official web sites, costing the UK taxpayer nearly one billion pounds. Read More >>
Featured comment by Kushan:
"This does not surprise me. Either the sites are so poorly designed that you simply cannot find the information you need, or they're utterly broken.
I..." More »
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