Posts by Nightmare

Ten... budget Android smartphones

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Vodafone 845 "Free with £15-30pm contract " and "cheap as chips"

I got a Desire free from Vodafone, on £25 a month.

Just saying.....

Virgin Media to add 500k homes to cable network

Sounds good

I find it weird that so many people seem to hate VM.

I have been with Telewest/NTL/VM for over 8 years.

Never had a significant problem.

In fact it has been so good when I have twice moved I have insisted it is to a placce that has cable. Why? Because when I compare the broadband I get (20mb = 20mb. I can d/l at a solid 2.1mb/sec) to my friends "up to" 8/16/24mb services I see how bad the general standard of ADSL is in this country.

Glad to hear Virgin is finally looking to fill in the new estates. Its a no lose thing really. Every £ spent connecting up new build estates will bring in several more £s to the company coffers, which ofcourse we know they need due to their gargantuan debt.

And for you lot shouting PHORM. Who is worse? VM havn't ran trials. BT has. And since most other networks run over BT kit presumably most of those were caught up in those illegal trials.

If VM start running secret illegal trials like BT then I may consider leaving on principle. But for now, I have nothing but praise for the service I have had.

Wireless browsers shut out of the Olympics

I don't get it

"The BBC tries, with limited success, to restrict most of its content to UK viewers - we pay the licence fee, after all. "

"The problem comes when mobile customers roam to another country - all IP traffic is routed through their home network, so they appear to be still in the UK despite physically being abroad, and that's got the IOC all upset."

Surely these two statements are contradictory.

I am a UK viewer. I pay my license fee. If I go on holiday surely I remain a UK license fee payer and should therefore retain my access to the content.

Or are they worried about foreigners buying UK sims, and contracts, and browsing via those? If they really are worrying about that someone should send the IOC a slingbox. They'd have kittens.