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Vodafone Ends New 3 Mobile Customer Registrations
It’s been two years since Vodafone and Hutchison Telecom merged 50:50, and in what VHA calls the “next step in that journey” (before 3 is likely phased out), new customers will now sign on as Vodafone subscribers. I’m sad to see 3 go: they challenged Telstra and Optus with Australia’s first 3G network in 2003,…
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Why On Earth Is HTC Locking ChaCha And Salsa Bootloaders?
HTC has today announced that its new ChaCha and Salsa smartphones, will be available from July 6, exclusive to Vodafone and 3. But in an odd twist, it’s been revealed that the bootloaders on these new Gingerbread /”Facebook phones” will be locked. Updated.
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Vodafone/Three Pump Up Contract Data Caps
Vodafone Hutchinson’s clearly not that worried about overloading its mobile network if the new data caps it’s just announced are any indication. The company, which claims it’s now got 2.3 million Aussie customers using some kind of mobile broadband service (up a curiously specific 150.2% rise year on year, according to the press release) has…
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Fancy An iPhone 4 Pre-Launch Beer With Gizmodo?
If you’re planning on spending this evening in the Sydney CBD on account of a certain phone’s midnight launch, why not start the evening off with a quiet beer with Giz?