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British Telecom (BT) is making plans to ask for a judicial review on the government’s scheme to extend existing 3G licences instead of auctioning the whole lot.

BT has sent a letter to the Business Secretary, wherein the telecoms operator has raised its problems to designs under the Digital Britain project, which seek to indefinitely extend 3G licences for making broadband available to everyone. The stern message from BT makes it clear that it thinks of the arrangement to extend licences, rather than auctioning the spectrum, as a billion pound gift from taxpayers to mobile operators.

After much bickering over the ownership and best usage of broadcast spectrum, a deal was sealed with the five mobile operators which agreed on an extension of the 3G licences that were bought for £22.5billion a decade ago. This was done on the condition that more comprehensive broadband services would be provided. These licences were slated to expire in 2012.

But according to BT, this is not a balanced approach as it signifies an unjust handout to the mobile industry. A representative of BT said the company wanted the spectrum to be auctioned in a fair and competitive way that gives a level playing field to the existing operators as well those making a fresh entry into the mobile broadband market. The spokesperson revealed that BT was in talks with BIS (the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) over the issues and was hopeful that its concerns will be taken care of.

Although, BIS has pushed the consultation deadline for the proposed plans to February 5, industry experts say the new date would not give the government much time for legislation before the forthcoming general election.

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Anyone who has even a
passing interest in the
recent developments
in phone
technology will be conscious of the
rising popularity of VoIP as a
means to make low cost and even free
international calls. It is an
indisputable fact
that it is the cost saving potential that
remains the
principal reason for the
increase of VoIP phone systems and
it is undeniable that cheap VoIP calls are
an enticing and cost effective
means of communicating. The downturn has
heightened the need
for a lot of people to
try to
bring down costs and
migrating from the traditional phone system to a VoIP
phone system is considered by many as
an obvious way
to save.

Nowadays the quality and
reliability of VoIP calls has made the use of
traditional telephone technology
appear increasingly moribund. The costs of the old analog
systems are regarded
as too high and now that an alternative has established itself on the scene
the
general public is
keen to
convert so that
they no longer throw away
money on high
telephone bills.

Although using VoIP for business or for personal use can save you money
on virtually any telephone
call it is the international calling sector where
the most conspicuous savings can be
found. The
disparity between the
cost of calls using traditional
telephone long-distance providers and VoIP service
providers is
stunning.

If you select the
traditional route you will be
billed exorbitant amounts of money
to phone someone abroad.
But if you have an
internet connection you can make cheap VoIP calls
internationally once you have the relevant software
(supplied by the VoIP service provider) and a headset
or internet phone. These VoIP calls
that you make to other
countries will cost only a few pence
- just a fraction of what you would
otherwise have to pay.

With savings of this
size the case for
changing over to VoIP is becoming overwhelming.

To conclude it must also be
mentioned that the use of VoIP is now
spreading out to the
mobile phone sector. Inexpensive long-distance and
international VoIP calls over mobile phones and other devices are the newest
innovation in the VoIP success story.

Digital music service Spotify has teamed up with 3 UK to provide music applications on 3’s range of mobile phones. This move was triggered by a need for Spotify to improve its portability.

Spotify is a legal online music service which provides users free access to a large and exhaustive library of music. This service can be utilized either by the members or by their invitees, and is a popular service among the regular internet users. However, Spotify is yet to taste commercial success with its service, and the partnership with 3 justifies its need for expanding its user base.

Jeremy Paterson, MD of music consultancy company Frukt, says that Spotify is still vying to become a mainstream service, and that after this deal, it will win new customers and will be available in places as distant as Barnsley.

Around Christmas, the HTC Hero will be unveiled. It will be the first 3 handset featuring the Spotify application. After this launch, a range of different phones with Spotify will be introduced. The advert-free ‘premium’ (paid) service of Spotify will be available to mobile phone users, and it is currently finalizing the tariff.

Last year in October, 3 became the first operator to sign up for Nokia’s ‘Comes with Music

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) criticised service provider BT for its apathetic approach to online piracy, indicating that the latter is responsible for allowing close to 100,000 customers to download files illegally without implementing any restrictions.

The BPI has claimed that it has collected the details of personal IP addresses of people who are suspected of being involved in file-sharing. Refusing to elaborate on the source of its findings, the BPI accused BT of ignoring its responsibility to deal with the situation. While speaking to the Mirror, Geoff Taylor, chief executive of BPI, said that it was disgraceful for a company like BT to do nothing, though it knew that a high percentage of its traffic is used for illegal activities. He added that it is the responsibility of a commercial ISP to ensure lawful use of its services by customers.

A spokesman for BT however said that peer-to-peer applications used for file-sharing are not always used for illegal activity. It is also used to play online games like World of Warcraft. He added that investigating the exact nature of each case of default would involve a penetrative level of investigation and regulation of people’s traffic, which would compel the customers to complain.

BT has recently declared to Your Money Government that if it plans to deal with online piracy, its consumer broadband bills (see cheapest broadband) would soar by £24 a year.

Geeks-on-Wheels, the IT support company that has been a market leader in providing solutions to almost every computer problem from viruses and spywares to data recovery in cases of crash to configuring hardware and software is in the news. It has been announced that BE, the internet service provider, will enter into an agreement with the former for providing its home and small business customers support and backup services.

The collaboration is being perceived as a profitable deal even for Geeks-on-Wheels which is happy about being associated with such a reputed name in the IT industry as BE has been known for providing the best broadband services across UK for quite sometime now. According to Jamie Shaw, Managing Director of Geeks-on-Wheels, with the coming together of two market leaders, the service will prove to be a huge success.

Though Geek-on-Wheels already has a fixed rate for customers looking for home service, BE is planning to cut down the price to 85% of its current level. The rates currently are £63.75 for the first hour and £31.88 for every subsequent half an hour in cities like London, and the rates are as low as at £55.25 for the first hour and then £25.50 for subsequent half hours in Sussex, Kent and Surrey.

As a goodwill gesture marking the introduction of the service, BE has decided to offer new Geeks-on-Wheels

Imagine a new piece of technology that will expand what your mobile can do, that could be deployed in the developing world to identify a number of diseases that kill thousands each month.

A microscope has been developed that will fit onto a mobile phone and let doctors and other medics to examine samples including blood; thus allowing them to diagnose a number of killer diseases early. This gadget could save thousands of lives in the field.

The inventers of the device are pushng for the essential equipment to be given out to clinicians who operate in areas where principal diagnostic test are not available, but mobiles like the Motorola Razr are.

It is a well known fact that advanced medical imaging systems and computerised medical equipment remain the privilege of the rich, mobile phones are now ubiquitous – this is backed up following the release of data which suggests that over 4 billion mobile connections are currently live across the globe.

The CellScope microscope attachment clips on to an ordinary mobile telephone and uses the inbuilt camera to process the images, allowing medics to quickly screen for diseases including TB and sickle-cell. Any samples placed on a slide beneath the CellScope can be viewed in high resolution, using the built in mobile telephone camera.

In a paper published in the journal PloS One, the team said that, although some of the tests would be more accurate or complete with higher-powered technology, they still proved adequate when performed on a standard Nokia N73 handset, which comes with a 3.2 megapixel camera.

The team declared that there is the possibility of performing realtime sample analysis now instead of patients having to wait until results are sent back from a lab.

In addition, the team believe that the adoption level by medics based in developing countries and remote destinations will be very high; given the standards for disease screening which are being met by this new mobile technology.

The team also suggest that extra features built into many mobile phones, such as GPS position data and internet connectivity, could be used to enhance the findings and make it simpler for medics to spot outbreaks and coordinate their responses.

3 has begun its unique idea of selling ad space by including an advertisement panel along with its connection manager feature for its mobile broadband users. Customers can expect to see an array of ad graphics on the welcome page, when they try to connect to the internet with their USB dongle.

Though the advertisements will not be prominent on the screen, according to 3’s reassurances to the customers, the company has made a call to advertising partners to use this unique opportunity to draw the attention of its consumers in a highly visible manner. Cashing in on its vast number of consumers, 3 Mobile Broadband is looking forward to signing exclusive deals with advertisers for space on its ad panel till the year end.

Interestingly, 3 has not provided the option of turning this feature off. This experiment in Austria recorded an impressive 6 percent number of clicks by users on these ads, which seems to have encouraged 3 mobile UK.

Advertising Head for 3 UK, Neil Andrews said that providing unique mobile promotional space has always been 3’s strength and because of its strong network, their mobile-based offers and value added services along with content and advertising have been fruitful for the company. The presence of so many advertisements can theoretically affect a user’s data allocation limit but it remains to be seen how 3 intends to deal with this technical problem.

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