Orange is rolling out a new service for its Orange World portal that aggregates a number of popular social networking sites into a single location, with plans to later launch a standalone app version. This stuff is pretty interesting for a number of reasons. I think it's great that they're [...]

Today, the Mobile Marketing Association announced the results of the EMEA Board of Directors election, held back in March and for which I asked for your support here at MobHappy. I'm delighted to announce that not only did I get elected in the face of some very tough competition, but [...]

I recently replaced my SO's trusty old Sony Ericsson K750 with a sparkling new Samsung SGH-U600. Decent little phone, for the most part, and she seems happy enough with it. Of course part of the "sales experience" entails me moving all her contacts over. I've not really had a problem [...]

It's still early in the year, but I think my prediction about "open" being the buzzword for 2008 is going to score me a point in our annual review. And, as I also predicted, a lot of it's BS. First, you've got Sprint's new transcoder, called "OpenWeb" (from OpenWave, natch). [...]

Last week, three of the major US operators announced $100/month flat-rate voice plans (with T-Mobile throwing in SMS and MMS as well). There was a lot of speculation about how Sprint might respond, with much of it saying that the company would probably just slash prices. Sprint today announced its [...]

Last week, Starbucks announced that it was dropping T-Mobile, in favor of AT&T, as the Wi-Fi provider for more than 7,000 of its US locations. Along with the change of vendors comes some pricing changes - AT&T DSL and fiber customers will get free access at Starbucks, while anybody that [...]

What started out as a trickle, seems to be turning into a deluge, as operators around the world bow to the inevitable and launch ever cheaper flat rate data tariffs. Yesterday alone we saw announcements from Vodafone and O2 for the UK, which means that the other operators have to [...]

In addition to venturing out of my cave for coffee, I also got a haircut today (productive, I know). The woman who cuts my hair got an iPhone for Christmas, and we were chatting about our experiences with and thoughts about it. She expressed some dismay that she had to [...]

Open, open, open. It's the buzzword of the moment in mobile, thanks to the likes of Google and Verizon. Operators are talking about how they're open, how they want to foster innovation and new business models, and how they love openness and so on. But then pops up BusinessWeek with [...]

Like many other mobile bloggers, I've complained before about excessive international roaming fees. The issue isn't that I've been hit with bill shock because I didn't know what the prices were; it's quite the opposite. I know what the charges are, and it's appalling. While the operator I use, T-Mobile [...]

If you've been online today, you've probably noticed that Verizon Wireless has announced that it will "open" its network to "any app, any device" next year. It will maintain its current business model, but will also offer network-only access to users with compatible devices that meet some as-yet-unnamed technical standards, [...]

T-Mobile claims it's already sold more than 10,000 iPhones in Germany, on the first day of its availability. Its parent company's CEO is already saying that it may not be able to meet demand for the device through the Christmas season, but if they're running low, perhaps they can ship [...]

The title says it all, really: both T-Mobile and Sprint have announced they'll begin prorating the early termination fees they charge customers who want out of their contracts before they expire, meaning the top four US operators now all have such policies. We've still got to wait for details, though, [...]

D-1 for iPhone Europe day (or I guess T-4 hours if you're in Cologne), and a line of at least two people has formed outside the Apple store on Regent Street in London. I'm very curious to see how the iPhone fares in Europe. I'm sure the first few days [...]

Nokia says that trials of next-generation mobile networks using LTE and SAE technology have delivered their first set of successful results, as the 3GPP carries on with the LTE standardization process. LTE, or Long Term Evolution, seeks to evolve the UMTS radio interface standard to deliver 100Mbps download speeds and [...]

A T-Mobile shop in Cologne will be the first place users can officially buy an iPhone in Europe when it opens at 12:01am Friday. Those nice T-Mobile folks will provide "food and drink, as well as the necessary shelter from the midnight cold." Meanwhile, British iPhone fiends will have to [...]

It was widely expected that Google would make an announcement about the Gphone today, and it did, to some extent. It announced that it's not making a single Gphone, but rather a software platform called Android - which isn't a great surprise, considering Google's 2005 acquisition of a company of [...]