Comments on: I don’t like it. It’s quiet… Too quiet http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/02/22/i-dont-like-it-its-quiet-too-quiet/ Telecoms industry news and opinion Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:02:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.12-alpha by: Kelly Ungs http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/02/22/i-dont-like-it-its-quiet-too-quiet/#comment-1316 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 09:58:35 +0000 http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/02/22/i-dont-like-it-its-quiet-too-quiet/#comment-1316 Perhaps you are sleeping in a little late after too many cervezas in Barcelona? This was a quiet week? Are your North American sources asleep at the wheel? The major wireless carriers in the US each announced changed business models over to flat rate billing. Stop counting minutes and get flat data plans up to 5GB per month. In the words of David Letterman, I think that’s something! RIM’s servers go down AGAIN, (second time in two software upgrade cycles) dropping service to email in your pocket service. Addicts nearly die from withdrawal? Dave would say “that’s not nothing, that’s something!” Some news across the pond to your west does happen outside press releases. You need to get up really early and start watching Dave! Perhaps you are sleeping in a little late after too many cervezas in Barcelona? This was a quiet week? Are your North American sources asleep at the wheel?

The major wireless carriers in the US each announced changed business models over to flat rate billing. Stop counting minutes and get flat data plans up to 5GB per month. In the words of David Letterman, I think that’s something!

RIM’s servers go down AGAIN, (second time in two software upgrade cycles) dropping service to email in your pocket service. Addicts nearly die from withdrawal? Dave would say “that’s not nothing, that’s something!”

Some news across the pond to your west does happen outside press releases. You need to get up really early and start watching Dave!

]]> by: Nick H http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/02/22/i-dont-like-it-its-quiet-too-quiet/#comment-1295 Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:12:54 +0000 http://blog.telecoms.com/2008/02/22/i-dont-like-it-its-quiet-too-quiet/#comment-1295 THINK OF THE CHILDREN? If we thought of the children surely we’d all be insisting we build the masts IN the schools. I suspect it’s not the mast that’s irradiating the little lovelies, but the 2W transmitter they’ve got clamped to their ear. Nowadays most mobile handset designers have worked out that it’s a good idea to incorporate power control, so the better the signal quality, the less the transmitter needs to shout. So if you want a soothing, gentle GSM signal next to your brain, the best thing to do is go and stand close to a base station. Move the base station away from the school and your darling gets fried brains as your handsets pumps its way up to being a handheld microwave. It’s a PR opportunity that the technically illiterate marketing departments of our operators have totally failed to recognise. People who want to take masts away from schools obviously hate children. Therefore they must be paedophiles. Where’s the News of the World when you need it. Masts are lovely. Masts are child friendly. We want them. Maybe we can even get David Cameron to start a hug-a-mast campaign. You’re right. The week after Barcelona is boring… THINK OF THE CHILDREN? If we thought of the children surely we’d all be insisting we build the masts IN the schools. I suspect it’s not the mast that’s irradiating the little lovelies, but the 2W transmitter they’ve got clamped to their ear. Nowadays most mobile handset designers have worked out that it’s a good idea to incorporate power control, so the better the signal quality, the less the transmitter needs to shout. So if you want a soothing, gentle GSM signal next to your brain, the best thing to do is go and stand close to a base station. Move the base station away from the school and your darling gets fried brains as your handsets pumps its way up to being a handheld microwave.

It’s a PR opportunity that the technically illiterate marketing departments of our operators have totally failed to recognise. People who want to take masts away from schools obviously hate children. Therefore they must be paedophiles. Where’s the News of the World when you need it. Masts are lovely. Masts are child friendly. We want them. Maybe we can even get David Cameron to start a hug-a-mast campaign.

You’re right. The week after Barcelona is boring…

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