Mob-blogging

Something about this story - BBC NEWS | Technology | Mafia turns to 3G video phones - on the BBC website makes me suspicious. Either the BBC is being more than usually technically-illiterate, or someone is feeding them press releases. Using 3G phones to send pictures of the ballot papers? 3G phones? 3G? Have I mentioned 3G enough yet?

Assuming that the Italian mobile market is reasonably similar to the UK, and 3G is so far - ahem - less than successful, it seems a tad unlikely that 3G is being used for this rather than bog-standard 2.5G MMS.

Which means that either the BBC hack who wrote this piece has got hold of the phrase 3G and is using it to death because they like the sound of it, or the story originated from the PR department of Hutchison. The copious details about the rollout and breathless plans certainly lends a bit more background than was strictly necessary.

Cynic, me?

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