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EE 4G UK – details on coverage, phones, prices, speeds for the 4GEE network

Posted on June 17, 2013August 21, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

EE has launched the UK's first 4G mobile network, called 4GEE, allowing for on average five times faster mobile network browsing speeds than 3G. Where can you get 4G in the UK? The 4G network is now live in the following 62 places in the UK Amersham, Aylesbury, Barnsley, Belfast, Berkhamstead, Billericay, Bingley, Birmingham, Blackpool, Bolton, Bradford, Brentwood, Bristol, Cardiff, Chelmsfo...
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Problems with TAP SMS over PSTN

Posted on February 27, 2013February 25, 2021 by Daniel Kobale

Problem: Having only just realized that the O2 SMS gateway is not reliable [when I first realised I should have had alerts, I thought my SD2 dialler had died], I have contacted O2 who are looking into the service, and they maintain that it should be running at the time of writing [November 2011] but advise me that it will cease operation around April 2012. I have discovered a long list of TAP ...
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Galaxy G2 to text my mobile

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Question: I have finished installing my G2 +44 alarm last week after ironing out the final problems. All works well but I would like it to text me when there was an alarm trigger. I have a Virgin phone line and a Virgin mobile.From what I have recently learned the panel uses the tap protocol to send the message. Ideally I just want to be paying for the odd text message in an alarm situation. Is t...
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Vodafone Tap Gateway

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Well it looks like the Vodafone TAP is getting less reliable every day. Today it was only sending around 10% of messages from a Castle Euro 46. Tried it on 2 other panels at different sites, story was the same. Pyronix/Castle keep selling it though. Why do they release bulletins like this http://shl.createsen...C70DBB5D28FA0F4 claiming it is reliable when the TAP is out of their control. ...
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TAP Access Number

Posted on February 27, 2013June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

At our shop we have a piece of kit that calls up a mobile number to communicate to our mobiles with text messages that vtell us when the alarm is set/unset, alarms and other stuff. The number it calls is 07960 980480, but this number now seems either permanently engaged or just doesn't answer at all. O2 (who run the number) don't seem to even know what i'm talking about! Vodafone also have a...
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DIDcomms launches new TAP to SMS and SMTP messaging gateway for the UK market!

Posted on December 11, 2012June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

(Wadebridge, Corwnall 11/12/2012) Due to the recent collapse and withdrawal of TAP gateway services, by various large Telecom firms such as O2, T-mobile, Orange and the like, DIDcomms has realized the need of many companies and business who rely and need this service. DIDcomms has partnered with a US supplier and also invested in our own in-house TAP to SMS and SMTP messaging gateway. What's mo...
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Does your security system’s SMS alert use O2?

Posted on November 23, 2012June 15, 2020 by Daniel Kobale

Security systems over a year old which use the O2's TAP gateway service to deliver an SMS text message to key holders when their alarm is activated, now need to switch to another provider. O2 withdrew their "TAP" gateway product in March 2012. Plus other major networks to follow! The change may well cause problems for a number of alarm systems. The SMS TAP service uses a landline connection ...
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EE 4G pricing revealed

Posted on November 7, 2012August 6, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

What is 4G? 4G is the latest mobile phone technology that promises up to download data up to five times faster than 3G networks. In practice this means you could stream and HD video on your phone, or tablet, without any buffering or delays, just as you might on a good quality home broadband connection. Read our What is 4G? guide for more information about 4G and how it could affect you. How...
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Orange and T-Mobile UK merge to crush O2 and Vodafone

Posted on September 18, 2012January 5, 2019 by Daniel Kobale

Orange and T-Mobile are to merge. Currently the third and fourth biggest mobile phone providers in the UK, the two companies are being combined by Deutsche Telekom and France Telecom to form the UK's largest, as-yet-unnamed network, like some kind of Power Ranger-style megazord phone network. Deutsche Telekom owns T-Mobile, which employs 6,500 workers in the UK, and France Telecom owns Oran...
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