Last August Giffgaff announced that they were teaming up with the Wood Green animal charity to help rehome battery hens. The ethical network’s campaign was a massive success but there are still thousands of birds that need helping so they’ve decided to relaunch the promotion with this hilarious new video:
You can read more about Giffgaff here but to order your free Giffgaff SIM card and help unlock chickens today, click here.
BlackBerry services are now, at long last, live and active on Giffgaff. As of this morning, all BlackBerry-owning Giffgaff customers have been able to receive push emails and communicate by BBM to their hearts’ content. So far everything seems to be running smoothly and, in keeping with their low-cost service, the price is just £3/month.
This means that on Giffgaff you can now get 250 any network minutes, completely unlimited texts and unlimited data plus BlackBerry services for a total of just £13/month. We’ve had a look at the other networks’ available deals and that offering is pretty much unbeatable. Giffgaff’s BlackBerry offering even heavily undercuts its parent network, O2. For only 100 minutes (and 100 O2 minutes) and just 1GB of data, you would be paying £20/month instead.
Order a free Giffgaff SIM card from us today and you’ll be up and running with your BlackBerry on Giffgaff before you know it. Not only that but you’ll start off with £5 free credit and you can keep your old number.
For more details on BlackBerry services on Giffgaff, check out our first post about the announcement.
Everything Everywhere, the parent company of T-Mobile and Orange has announced that it will sell off a portion of its 1800 MHz spectrum before Ofcom starts off the big 4G mobile spectrum sale later in the year. This rare auction will bring the network conglomerate in line with EU competition regulations and could raise as much as £400 million.
The merger of T-Mobile and Orange provided Everything Everywhere with by far the largest share of mobile spectrum in all of the UK. The 1800 MHz frequency of the spectrum is especially valuable as it’s perfect for mobile data transfers which are coming under increasing strain. In 2010, the mobile network was asked by the European Commission, to sell around 25% of the 1800 MHz network. Everything Everywhere has already had talks with the European Commission regarding dropping the obligation to sell two lots of 15 MHz of its spectrum but a clause in the competition regulations states that the sell-off can be re-considered if market conditions change.
Until now, Everything Everywhere, has been uncertain of when it has to sell the spectrum, although reports have stated that the operator is unwilling to sell the spectrum ahead of the 4G auction. It seems clear that Everything Everywhere want to hold off their sales for as long as possible, to gain as much financial advice as possible before selling and to gauge the impact of the 4G auction. However, the company has now announced that it is negotiating with Royal Bank of Scotland to overseeing the sale and representatives have already hinted that there might be a private sale.
Now we expect the sale to go ahead some time in February but it remains to be seen whether Everything Everywhere will prefer to lose its spectrum for a lower price if they can find a buyer that’s not a direct rival. We’ll have to wait a while to see who Everything Everywhere sell to and for how much.
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