Mobile Phone Insurance News

Disallowed goal makes us Text crazy.

On Sunday over 222 million text messages were sent in the UK, 36 million of those during the football between England and Germany with a spike just after the disallowed goal.

The figures come from billmonitor.com a service that allows customers to check their bills and make sure that they are on the correct tariff or network provider.

Nokia switches to MeeGo

Nokia, the Finnish manufacturer of mobile phones, has dropped Symbian as the provider of its software from its top end N-Series mobiles.

Orange and t-Mobile merge on Thursday

The long awaited merger between Orange and T-Mobile will happen on Thursday and the new brand ‘Everything Everywhere’ will be born. Expect to see some serious advertising for the new comer as they try to get brand recognition as a fast as possible.

New iPad insurance pricing to launch soon

www.insurance2go.co.uk is to launch new iPad insurance pricing within the new 7 days. This exciting new product from Apple deserves some really top notch pricing and we believe we have come up with it. New pricing for a new month! The pricing with all www.insurance2go.co.uk products is hugely competitive as with the mobile phone insurance that we have been offering for nearly 6 years.

New ideas

If you have any new ideas for cover that we could offer please get in touch – our e-mail address is on the website. Any ideas that get use and we’ll reward the suggestion. As with our mobile phone insurance it must be cheap, of value and attractive to our customers.

Alcatel expects good things

Alcatel the manufacturer of mobile phones expects to see a big upturn in the number of mobiles it sells, the news comes after the very successful promotion with the Sun and Carphone Warehouse. The company have another tie in promotion launching the OT-708 exclusively at Phones4U in collaborations with pop singer Eliza Doolittle.

RIM increase revenue but still below analyst’s hopes

RIM, the Canadian makers of blackberry handsets have reported an increase in revenues of 24% for Q1 and shipped a staggering 11.2 million handsets but the results are below market expectations. They hope that the launch of a new operating system – blackberry 6 will improve fortunes.

iPhone 4 signal drop but healthy sales

Some early users of the iPhone 4 are reporting loss of signal when they hold the handset in a certain way. A bit odd, Steve jobs said: ‘All phones have sensitive areas, just avoid holding it in this way’.

Despite that sales have been strong and some retailers are bemoaning a lack of stock. Phones4U were taking a deposit off customers wishing to reserve a handset. It was thought that anyone paying the deposit was guaranteeing a unit for themselves, unfortunately this is not necessarily the case as there just wasn’t enough stock to go round.

Virgin Media want to go faster

Virgin media have said that their broadband will be capable of offering speeds of upto 100 bps by the end of the year and they hope to eventually offer 400bps. Wow. Good news for those who like to download film and music.

www.insurance2go.co.uk cheap mobile phone insurance for all UK residents.

The brand new iPhone is on sale from tomorrow and the mobile phone retailer O2 is planning to open more than half of its 400 stores early to deal with demand from customers eager to be first to get their hands on the brand new offering from Apple.

243 stores across the country will open at 8:02am tomorrow morning (02 – very clever!).

O2 has 400 stores nationwide. Traditionally mobile retailers, such as Carphone, have opened early for customers eager to buy the newest version of the iPhone mobile phone.

O2 has limited the new iPhone to existing customers only until the end of July.

Meanwhile, current iPhone users are expecting an upgrade to the operating system. The iPhone 4 has over 100 new features including multitasking, spell checking for emails and digital zoom.

Here at www.insurance2go.co.uk we would remind customers that they don’t have to take the insurance offered by O2 or any other mobile phone retailer. We always recommend customers shop around first. We offer a really competitive insurance product which covers all mobile phones including the iPhone. Please check out our website for further details or go straight to our iPhone insurance page at www.insurance2go.co.uk/iphone-insurance.

A little good news for customers after a pretty hard budget from the Tory / Liberal government, George Osborne has increased the rate of Insurance Premium Tax from 5% to 6%, not as much as some had feared. As a result www.insurance2go.co.uk are delighted to announce that they won’t be passing the cost onto consumers when they purchase mobile phone insurance, laptop insurance, iPad insurance etc.

Phones4U open a Blackberry zone

The Phones4U store on Tottenham Court road is the location for the first Blackberry Zone, a partnership between the two companies to promote the services available on Blackberry mobile phones.

It is thought that the move by Blackberry is to continue targeting the consumer market even further. Its traditional market has been seen as the business user.

Orange HD Trial begins

Orange is to begin trials of its much awaited HD voice services in the geographical regions between Bristol, Reading and Southampton. The service removes background noise and improves the quality calls. They hope that the service will be rolled out over the summer.

The trial has begun using selected partners made up of early adopters and small businesses.

Your friends might know where you are…..

More and more services are hitting the market that will enable you to see where your friends are and vice versa, this service which will be a hit with young people but perhaps not with older users is the new wave of social networking. You’ll be able to see where friends are out drinking and possibly with whom. All very nice but if you told a little white lie perhaps to avoid someone it might end up being a little embarrassing.

New phones launch all can be insured

New phones are hitting the market the whole time and all can benefit from www.insurance2go.co.uk offering great value mobile phone insurance. We have been offering top quality products for over 5 years now and will keep offering competitive pricing whenever a new phone is launched.

Some would have waited for the iPhone 4

Some customers who purchased the iPhone 3GS recently feel a bit aggrieved that Apple have just launched the iPhone 4, they feel they should have been given a bit of warning especially as many of them have signed up to a 24 month contract.

Some retails stores are experiencing customers taking up the 14 day cooling off period and cancelling so they can take up the new iPhone 4 when it launches on 24^th June.

Alternative Networks in good health

The Business Service provider Alternative Networks based in South London has reported a 32% rise in profits. In the first half of 2009/10 the turnover was up 3% from £45.6 million to £47.1 milliion with its operating profits up from £4.3 million to £5.7 million.

Its mobile subscriber numbers rose 17% during the period from 54,000 to 73,500.

Ofcom cracks the whip

Ofcom, the UK Telecoms regulator, has come down hard on telecoms companies charging high cancellation rates for customer wishing to end their contracts. The regulator said the charges were too high and that they should come down by as much as 85%.

Virgin to take Aeromobile on board

Virgin Atlantic, the airline, are to offer customers the services provided by AeroMobile. The technology will enable Virgin Atlantic customers to make calls and send texts from 35,000 feet,

AeroMobile CEO Bjorn-Taale Sandberg said: “This milestone announcement with Virgin Atlantic underlines our position as the most successful in-flight GSM service in the market today. The majority of Airbus aircraft in service today with in-flight cellular connectivity are served by AeroMobile.

“We are proud that Virgin Atlantic has chosen us for their next big step into the future of in-flight passenger experience. We are both used to pushing the boundaries on behalf of our customers so it’s a great breakthrough for us.

“We are now achieving real scale for our business, underlining that our technology is now recognised by both passengers and airlines is a ‘must have’.”

11% was knocked of the value of Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer, yesterday when the company announced its second profits warning in as many months.

The demand for the Apple’s iPhone and other Smartphone models has knocked Nokia’s profits over the last few years. The company is still well placed at the lower end of the market but it is the Smartphone market that is cause for concern for investors.

The company employs 123,000 people world wide, and in 2009 enjoyed sales of £34 billion down from £42 billion in 2008. Its profits in 2009 we just £798 million down alot on the previous years that clocked in at a profit of £4.9 billion. The company spent £4.9 billion on research in 2009.

The new Nokia N8 Smartphone is finding it difficult to compete with the iPhone, pre-orders of the new iPhone 4 were so high that Apple’s systems crashed. The company has announced that it took pre-orders of 600,000 on Tuesday alone.

Inmarsat to launch a handheld Satellite phone

Inmarsat, the maker of satellite telephone systems, is to launch the first handheld satellite mobile phone, which it hopes will capture 10% of the market within two years.

The FTSE 100 listed company thinks that the handset will be very attractive to those who need coverage where the masts from the ‘normal’ providers don’t reach. Oil explorations, driving in the outback in Australia, some mountain rescue outfits, sailors on smaller craft. The rates are supposedly competitive enough to compete with some ‘normal’ mobile’s roaming charges.

Carphone appoints new MD of its UK business

Carephone Warehouse the London listed mobile phone retailer has appointed a new MD of its UK business, he is Matt Stringer and was thus far the international operations director at Marks & Spencer.

BT has nearly got London fibre connected

BT has announced that by Spring 2011 87% of the capital’s homes and businesses will be connected with fibre optic cable.

www.insurance2go.co.uk waits for the budget before launching new pricing

The mobile phone insurance dealer www.insurance2go.co.uk is waiting on George Osborne’s emergency budget before launching a new set of pricing. There is a chance that Insurance Premium tax will rise after the budget from 5% maybe to 10% or maybe even higher to 17.5%. The new rate, if it changes, will impact all insurers. We will wait and see and try our hardest to avoid passing on the rise to consumers.

iPhone launch in Japan brings the server down

The launch of the new iPhone in Japan made the computer’s servers crash so great was the demand. Eeek.

Sony Ericsson to launch Skype on their flagship smartphones.

Sony Ericsson has added Skype to its flagship smartphones the Satio, Vivaz, and Vivaz Pro. Skype can be used either with a Wi-Fi connection or via the internet.

Obviously Skype is very attractive to users as it is free to use if two users are both talking on a Skype connection. It is possible that this something that will hit the operators revenue hard if more and more people begin using the service especially for calling abroad or whilst abroad.

Network operators in the UK are licking their wounds after their challenge to the European court to claim that the enforced reduction in roaming charges is too harsh was rejected. The networks have a few headaches to contend with – all are suffering from the massive amount of data being downloaded across their networks, reduced income from roaming and if Skype takes off on mobile this could hit revenues even further.

O2 could be heading for industrial action over pay offer.

O2 look to be heading for an industrial dispute over its offer of 2% to employee, the Communication Workers Union has said that they expect workers to reject the offer. The Union is looking for an offer in excess of 4%.

New boys Acer to launch two new Android handsets.

The newcomers to the mobile market Acer, are to launch two new Androd handsets – the E120 will include a 2 .8 inch touch screen and 5 way navi-key, the beTouch E130 will have a 2.6 inch touchscreen and a qwerty keyboard. Both has a 3.2 mega pixel camera.

www.insurance2go.co.uk are happy to offer mobile phone insurance on all new handsets as they launch on the market.

Best Buy which is 50% owned by the Carphone Warehouse is going to stock the Apple iPhone 4 from 24 June.

The move coincides with the opening of their third UK store at Merry Hill in the West Midlands, which is set to open the day after the iPhone 4 launch.

This latest deal confirms a shift in the way Apple is marketing its latest iPhone, moving away from exclusive deals to a broader distribution of the handset from multiple retailers.

So far Apple has done deals with all five UK mobile phone operators, as well as Phones 4u and Carphone Warehouse for the iPhone 4. It is also expected that the iPhone 4 will be available to buy from Tesco stores quite soon.

The expectation is that the main customers for the iPhone 4 will be old iPhone customers who will get rid of their old iphones and just buy the new. This will cost the operators a lot of money in acquisition costs. Meanwhile the old iPhones will go to webstores and will be bought by people who will then get a sim only deal.

Customers will no doubt be offered iPhone insurance at point of sale. Here at www.insurance2go.co.uk we always recommend customers shop around before taking mobile phone insurance. Better mobile phone insurance deals can often be found online and we think we have a very competitive product. Check out www.insurance2go.co.uk/iPhone-insurance for further details.