Online blog 'SMS is the new Black' confirmed late on Wednesday that expletive-ridden texts are eligible for its best SMS competition.
As reported in this week's Totally Trivial, the Website is on the hunt for the best text message sent or received during January.
Five lucky strange people will win a copy of AQA's book, 'Brilliant Answers', a compendium of some of the solutions proffered by the SMS answering service.
Unfortunately one more question still remains: Do incomprehensible text messages sent while under the influence of alcohol count?
The reason I ask is because I think I have a winner, received - that's received - by me:
"Gm weapdonagio!d. Amd imts ngppons folt! Laaajabaads@"
The competition closes on February 13.
Wednesday, 28 January 2009
Send rude texts, win a book!
Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Iraq fines mobile operators
The Iraqi goverment has imposed fines against the country's two largest mobile operators for failure to meet their licence requirements, various sources claimed on Tuesday, citing a report in the Middle East Economic Digest (MEED).
All three players failed to meet quality of service expectations, while Korek Telecom was also rapped for not reaching coverage requirements.
The state slapped a $9 million fine on Zain and a penalty of $300,000 on Asiacell, but Korek Telecom escaped punishment, the reports said.
Zain and AsiaCell are said to be planning an appeal.
Thursday, 22 January 2009
Nokia says touch-screen phone will be top seller
Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo believes the vendor's recently-launched 5800 touch-screen handset has the potential to be its best seller ever.
Kallasvuo made the comment on a conference call to discuss Nokia's fourth-quarter results on Thursday.
The Finnish vendor brought the 5800 to market on 27 November and by the end of last year had sold more than half a million units, Kallasvuo said.
Nokia's results disappointed. Net profit and sales declined more than expected and the vendor predicted industry device volumes will slip by 10% next year, having previously said the decline would be around the 5% mark.
More on Nokia's Q4 results, including its plans to expand in the smartphone space and to create product combos - which definitely do not include giving the services away for free, CFO Rick Simonson insisted - on Total Telecom today.
Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Vodafone eyes UK Palm Pre deal
Rumours abound that Vodafone is hoping to secure an exclusive deal to sell the Palm Pre in the U.K.
Negotiations between the two companies are in the early stages, reports Mobile Top Soft, which cited "various leaks from Vodafone officials."
Since then a Vodafone spokesman said the operator has no plans for the Palm Pre at the moment, according to Mobile Computer.
What's more, with O2 UK offering the iPhone, T-Mobile exclusively selling the Android-powered G1, and Vodafone with the BlackBerry Storm, Orange or 3UK might be eyeing their own exclusive handset deal.
Palm unveiled the Pre during CES earlier in January. The vendor's latest smartphone features a touchscreen, a full QWERTY keyboard and runs its own operating system called Nova.
With the Pre, Palm hopes to win back market share that has been eroded recently by the likes of RIM, Apple and HTC.
Read up on breaking telecoms news on our Website.
Wednesday, 7 January 2009
New year, new numbers
Happy new year to all, and welcome to the place to be for those all-important telecoms snippets in 2009.
First up, a quick post with some useful stats.
Iraqi mobile operator Asiacell announced today that it has reached the 6 million subscriber mark, failing to meet its own target by the slimmest of margins.
In June 2008 the telco revealed plans to invest $1 billion in its Iraq mobile operations and said it would reach 6 million customers by the end of the year. At the time its customer base stood at 5 million.
Asiacell was one of three companies to emerge victorious from Iraq's mobile licensing competition in August 2007. The company - owned by Kuwait's Wataniya Telecom, which was itself taken over by Qatari incumbent Qtel in March last year – paid $1.25 billion for its 15-year GSM licence, as did Kuwait's MTC (since rebranded Zain) and existing northern Iraqi player Korek Telecom.
Asiacell does not have the largest presence in the growing Iraqi market though.
According to its latest figures, Zain had 8.52 million active customers in Iraq as of 30 September last year.
There are no figures available for Korek Telecom, although its coverage is thought to be poor. Indeed, all three players face censure from the country's ministry of communications for failure to meet the coverage requirements specified under their licences, it emerged late last year.
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