The Register® — Biting the hand that feeds IT

Comments on: C&W orders up base stations for Tesco

And of course 

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 15:07 GMT

They will know where all their droids are at any time. Muahhahaha, etc.

What can i say... 

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 18:13 GMT

Coat

Every Little Helps!

Mine is the one with the blue and white stripped mobile in the pocket...

Employees? 

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 21:47 GMT

I'd have thought their plans would extend further than that, particularly with the Tesco Mobile customers (who are normally on O2, since it's a joint venture with O2). I'd like to see nanocells, too: T-Mobile offer these in the US now (pay $10/month and get a base station in your house, with unlimited calls using your mobile at home), why can't we have that here?

For that matter, if C&W have this license now, why haven't they done anything (that we've heard of) yet?

Win win for BT 

Posted Thursday 11th September 2008 22:18 GMT

Boffin

All the back-bone of Wireless is BT. My recently installed Vodafone mast near me, is connected to a 2Mb ISDN 30 line! BT still wins!

Mobile network? 

Posted Friday 12th September 2008 10:01 GMT

With the hundreds of stores littered around the UK, you'd thought Tesco would have looked into setting up it's own mobile masts and buying a chunk of the spectrum. Now that would be interesting for the consumer...

Nanocells? 

Posted Friday 12th September 2008 14:15 GMT

I thought they were just wireless routers - you had to buy a phone with WiFi connectivity to use the 'use your cellphone at home' plans.

Nanaocells... 

Posted Friday 12th September 2008 14:42 GMT

Boffin

the cells in your house are FemtoCells and are just coming on to the market, they use your ADSL line as backhaul and use standard 2G/3G radio but adapt the transmission power so the footprint matches the size of your house.

Shame.. 

Posted Friday 12th September 2008 18:08 GMT

That theres no real pricing at the moment for these in-home-cells in the UK atm :(

Sign up, sign up for The Register's weekly mobile & wireless newsletter - click here

Don’t Miss