Mobile Phone Deals for Desire, Wildfire and Bold 9700
If you are itching to buy a new smart phone, then you might want to check on the following offerings from the various network operators. In this list, we are covering the impressive Android smart phones HTC Desire and HTC Wildfire, as well as Blackberry’s Bold 9700.
Of the three, the HTC Desire is getting the most attention from interested smart phone buyers. The device is packed to the brim with features and has hardware that can match that of the Nexus One. This phone has a 5 mega pixel camera, a 3.7 inch AMOLED touch screen display, a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and of course, the Android 2.1 Éclair operating system.
Orange Mobile UK is offering the handset on a couple of really tempting deals; at 25 Pounds a month for 18 months (Dolphin 25 plan), nets you the phone for free with 500 MB of data allowance each month. T-Mobile UK offers the handset at a similar rate, with an 18 month contract with a 25 Pound tariff. The only difference is that T-Mobile gives a better deal with the data allowance –giving users a full 1GB of data.
If the Desire is a little too expensive for your tastes, then you might want to go for the HTC Wildfire. This handset is basically the Desire Lite –with lesser hardware capabilities, but extended social networking functions. Vodafone UK offers the Wildfire for a very low cost of 15 Pounds a month for 24 months. Users will get 300 minutes of talk time, unlimited messages and about 500 MB of data allowance.
The BlackBerry Bold 9700 is the perfect choice for heavy email users thanks to BB’s impressive OS and the portrait QWERTY keyboard. 3 Mobile UK has announced that their plans for the Bold 9700 include on that nets users the device for free at 20 Pounds each month for 24 months. This package deal gives 500 MB of data allowance too.
T-Mobile Are Also Victims, Says Legal Practitioner
Field Fisher Waterhouse, one of the reputed Law Firms in London, today said that their client T-Mobile has fallen prey to a rogue employee.
Stewart Room, who is the data security partner of the firm, informed that the T-Mobile acted impeccably in the situation. At a very early stage, they passed on the details of the data breach to the Information Commissioner. This must be reflected on how the network has to be dealt with during the trial.
Room said that at this moment, it is quite difficult to come to a conclusion that T-Mobile has failed in their obligation for Data Protection Act. According to Room, there might be determined criminal involved in their offense and it is often difficult to detect them in such a large organization.
He added that there is a possibility about the Information Commissioner taking tough actions against the organization. However, it would be quite a rough action against such a reputed company.
He continued saying that if you go by the news, T-Mobile has been behaving impeccably and a regulatory regime should reward it rather than take action against the same. They should remember, prior to giving the verdict, that not only the customers, but the company is also the victim of the criminal offense that its employee has conducted.
As a suggestion to all the companies, Room said that everyone should opt for adopting an adequate number of measures for keeping their data secure. They should take steps for assessing the performance and reliability of the people, who are working on the data. This is how another issue, similar to the one T-Mobile finds itself in, can be avoided.
T-Mobile Formally Announces Theft of Information
Theft is not the exact word used by T-Mobile as their customer records were “illegally sold” to unknown parties. With the information itself still readily available within T-Mobile’s information servers, nothing has been technically stolen. But accessing said information and selling it to a third party is equally illegal. With information on consumer contact numbers and contract details, the buyers of this information hold quite a potential cache of customers as they are able to isolate and target consumers whose plans are about to end. Being able to prey on consumers who are most likely to get a new plan gives sellers and an excellent vantage point as they would not have to randomly look for likely customers.
According to BBC news, millions of records have been passed from T-Mobile. T-Mobile itself denies warranting any such actions and is currently in the process of investigating the internal perpetrators for prosecution. This is highly acceptable as T-Mobile has nothing to gain from selling customer data. While this may be big news in the fact that it has been confirmed by a telecomm company, the trade and purchase of customer information appears to run rampant across different carriers.
T-Mobile has made a report to the Information Commissioner’s Office and from what has been released to the public, they claim that the “information has been sold on different brokers and that substantial amounts of money have changed hands”.
The end result of these ‘crimes’ is that customers are the end victims, often being pestered by what is termed as “cold calling”; wherein they are directly contacted one their phones and greeted by their name by individual who should otherwise not have access to such relevant information and data.
While it is estimated that individual data does not sell for much, in bulk, the gross profit for selling information on what could be thousands of customers will net a substantial amount.