Well... no. State owned companies w/ monopoly are terrible because they have nothing to compete with, and endless amounts of tax money to waste. Telia (formerly known as Televerket) was no exception, they charged ridiculous amounts for long-distance calls, and their service was crappy. My phone bill was 10 times higher in the early 1990's than it is now.
Well, sorry but isn't that very much on topic here? Government owned infrastructure is the reason why TeliaSonera has the upper hand, which is the reason why they got the exclusive iPhone deal.^^ Let's keep this thread out of the PRSI-forum, so please no long discussion on government ownership/control over a country's infrastructure (even if that might be a nice topic for a thread in mentioned forum).
Yeah, chances are that they're improving the security on the iPhone 2... they could make it so that Apple approved 3rd party software won't run on jailbroken phones, or they could pump out official software updates so fast that jailbroken iPhones are always two steps behind.
Nokia is a network operator in Finland? You can get your phone bill from Nokia? Sounds bizarre. That's like Ericsson starting up a network in Sweden, infuriating TeliaSonera, Telenor and everyone else who buys Ericsson's infrastructure hardware. And no, I don't own a Nokia phone, I gave up in 1999 after three Nokia phones in a row. The build quality was abysmal and the software kept crashing so I switched to SonyEricsson, which is better but nowhere near as good as the iPhone.
Yes, of course their growth rate is higher since they started from zero when the iron curtain disappeared. That's like saying toddlers grow faster than teenagers, what's the point? They still have light years to go before they're in the western european league.
Nope, not interested in sports. What did you win, gold, silver, bronze, cookies...?
has given up on the idea of preventing the unlocking of the iPhone - it has become even easier to jailbreak and unlock with more recent firmware updates. They do profit from unlocked iPhones and their subscription model (where they share in monthly revenue from the carriers) seems to be changing as well.
From what I've read on Swedish news sites today, it's the only carrier for the foreseeable future, which admittedly isn't exactly a vast expanse of time in the hi-tech world, things may change in a year or so. The other two Swedish carriers, Telenor and Tre, are really bummed today. Telenor even started selling Macs and iPods in their phone stores a while ago in an attempt to kiss up to Apple, but it didn't work.
I don't know which is the worst ball sucking experience of the two, and I don't think I want to, because then I'd also have formed an opinion on which of the two is preferable.
Not really. True, they are one of the most expensive operators - but their service is good & reliable.
This is great news if TeliaSonera (or Sonera in Finland) will follow the current data transfer rates. Currently, their cheapest unlimited data packet costs about 15/month. (Some other operators offer lower rates, about 10.) There is a speed limit of 512 Kbps. With some extra money, you get higher speed limit.
Not really. True, they are one of the most expensive operators - but their service is good & reliable.
They had for a long time completely free 24/7 customer service. Nowadays, I think it's about 0.15/min but still almost 24/7, except on Sundays. In Finland, the operator must refund all the CS costs to the customer if the problem (the reason for the call) was operator's fault. Thus, in most cases, CS will still be free. Besides that you get 15 back for every week your phone/net/... connection is broken - under the Finnish law.
No, it's really 512 Kbps. They changed the limit less than a month ago.
In English: "Basic speed in 3G area 512 kbps"
It's too bad if Sonera sucks. I always assumed they were one of the best since Telia teamed up with them. Telia is my current carrier and has been for many years. I used to have Europolitan, later acquired by Vodafone, and later again Telenor, and it worked fine where I lived in Stockholm. But then I went home to northern Sweden over Christmas, and as soon as the train left Stockholm the phone was dead and remained dead until I returned to Stockholm. So I switched to Telia and never looked back.
Ah. Well, Europe has this inherent aversion to monopolies (see French lawsuits against Apple, Microsoft etc) and anyone who tries to grab a larger piece of the pie (or a piece of someone else's pie) gets a bunch of meddling politicians on their heels... but Nokia has this godlike status in Finland, for the Finns it's like Apple, Sun, Microsoft, Nike and McDonalds all rolled into one, so I'm sure they wouldn't object if they started their own TV channel, car brand or political party.It's not unheard of for a manufacturer to also be the network operator. Here in NZ my parents used to get their bill from Motorola. Of course, Europe may be (and probably is!) completely different
