Official announcement of the launch I-Mode in the MTS network took place on September 14, at the same time on sale there and the telephone. As an anticipatory publication, an article appeared Basil Kuzicheva, Development Director of MegaFon-Moscow ", which is on the run I-Mode in the Russian reality puts an end and in the process a little promoted innovation in MegaFon. You can read the material here. From the perspective of business ethics publication of such material against competitors is only possible on the company's internal resources (intranet is generally a collection of such harsh sentences and correctly configured for each company). But the mass mailing of articles to all the journalists looks extremely questionable move and shows that the launch of services still Megaphone touched a nerve. Voluntarily or involuntarily, but the material Kuzicheva caused a storm of debate, which in all its glory manifested themselves as supporters of the technology and its opponents. Especially taking a little time to reflect on the arguments on both sides, forced to admit that there is a rational core, and there, and there, but vce fixated on the technology itself and not pay attention to how I-Mode will be fed a normal user. After all, those who discusses i-mode today, wittingly or unwittingly are relevant to the field of mobile communications and the same article Kuzicheva aimed at a professional audience, or a keen interest in communication. However, to see the hot debate is enough to go into cells, where the whole spectrum of opinions.
Long time, oh, long time since my hands did not get supplies from Samsung, but this month you will find three prelyubopytneyshih device. I decided to start with the most interesting of all, namely the stereo solutions. Samsung SBH500 continues and develops the ideas of his predecessors, but the combination of characteristics is somewhat unique thing.
This is not the first attempt to make the company an expensive accessory, previous experience called WEP-420 Headset was developed in collaboration with the B & O, success in the market did not enjoy. Although, if we talk about its consumer properties, the proposal was interesting, from a good quality of voice, ending with a beautiful stand included. So, as if it might be good, found very few willing to pay for it for more than three thousand (as at first number was even higher). 900-I has been developed without the participation of B & O, among the products with which it is designed to compete, we can find and expensive products from other companies, but the main "enemy» - Plantronics 925. Well, let's see how good the WEP900.
In Russia, a very brief period of time when operators are not only selling telecommunications services, but also the source of supply of subscriber equipment that is sold to mobile phones. Over the years, participants in those events say that the trade was of phones forced, retail market phones did not exist and the operators to get it sorted as best we could. Wickedness in these words a lot more than the truth. If you look at the European market, which development is ahead of Russia today at 3-4 years, and then outpaced a good dozen years, we see the opposite picture: today, independent retailers, offering mobile phones, in Europe there is little, the whole market is monopolized shops acting under the auspices of the operators and owned by them in varying degrees. At the stage of network development, when the cover was minimal, and the customer base in the hundreds of people, operators have begun to develop and retail businesses. For them, creating points of presence was normal, and the network evolved simultaneously on the cover, and retail salons. In our country, the operators have decided to save money and reduce their risks, retail business, none of them did not develop, allowing many independent companies to become major retailers in Russia. And for operators phones have become just an appendage to the networks, and often annoying appendage: compatibility testing takes time, needs constant adjustment of own software, which is not ideal, the creation of options for additional services to users, answering questions, users, etc. The operator does not understand the business of mobile phones, in fact, all operators until recently in one voice declared that the sale terminals - non-core business that they are not interesting. But with the saturation of the market of communication services and a decrease in revenue growth from sales of voice traffic operators needed to find new ways to increase profitability. One of the main areas was the development of non-voice services as a priority feature is called work to create their own phones. By "their own mobile phones" refers not machines, created from scratch and adapting existing solutions with a clear binding to a specific operator. By binding we mean no SIM lock, but rather a set of functional characteristics with which the phone receives the new quality, expanding its functionality and consumer appeal, respectively, increases.
Starting tomorrow, MegaFon-Moscow renews its range of contractual rates. The new TA will receive the word "Challenge" in the title - this one could guess from the pre-street, and TV-commercials. Connect to existing TA today is still possible, but at midnight on October 9 activation contracts for "old" rates will be closed. Please find a new line with the rates and decide: Escape to the dealer to enter into a contract or wait quietly on Monday. For existing contract customers, nothing changes, they will still be serviced by its tariff. Closed to new connections following tariff plans: Reception Private, Friendly Reception, Reception Business, Unlimited, one to one, FixL. Since the information was not published officially MegaFon, there may be some minor refinements. Although I doubt it.
C 5 to October 18, MTS offers its subscribers use prepaid-unlimited incoming calls for quite a ridiculous fee of $ 1.69 ($ 1.9942 from VAT). The proposal is decorated in a temporary action (as usually done in "Jeans"), serving until November 30 inclusive. This action caused a lot of issues, including the two main ones: whether "it works and why it was done?
By and large, in this article we will talk about the future of mono, then, that they may become over time. After all, it is clear that the division into mono, stereo - it's all marketing delights, by and large a bill. The Samsung decided to resolve this issue, and to light a small monsters called WEP-870 headset, which looks like a perfectly normal way to talk. But! Included are headphones that you can connect to the connector microUSB. Click - and now we face trick to listening to music. Very original.