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Multiple mobile operators in Europe plan to block advertising on their networks, with one of them planning to target Google's ad network to force the company to give up a cut of its ad revenue, according to a report yesterday in the Financial Times.
"An executive at a European carrier confirmed that it and several of its peers are planning to start blocking adverts this year," the newspaper reported. "The executive said that the carrier will initially launch an advertising-free service for customers on an opt-in basis. But it is also considering a more radical idea that it calls 'the bomb', which would apply across its entire network of millions of subscribers at once. The idea is to specifically target Google, blocking advertising on its websites in an attempt to force the company into giving up a cut of its revenues."
Blocking ads "just for an hour or a day" might be enough to bring Google to the negotiating table, the executive told the newspaper.
http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/05/eu-carriers-plan-to-block-ads-demand-money-from-google/
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Monday May 18 2015, @09:35AM
Uhhhh...what is so hard about switching carriers here in the states? I live in the middle of Bumfuck Arkansas and the wife has switched 4 times in the last 3 years without issue. If you are foolish enough to get suckered into a multiyear contract where you end up paying something like 6 times what the phone is worth just to have the latest shiny instead of just buying the damned phone? Well that I would argue is a personal problem as there is plenty of smartphones that work quite nicely that don't cost hardly anything here so unless you are getting the phone strictly for bragging rights? There really isn't a reason to let the carriers fuck you over with those shitty contracts.
As a nice bonus since you aren't locked into a contract if you or the wife don't like the phone? You can just wipe it and sell it and get something else. When I met the wife she had an iPhone (hated it, said she always felt like she was fighting the thing) so I got her an HTC Android phone and sold the iPhone...which she REALLY hated as she said Android required too much "futzing" with it, so I got rid of that and got her a Nokia Lumia....and I have to give MSFT credit where credit is due, I handed her the phone and it didn't take her even 5 minutes to get comfortable with the OS and now she just loves it.
But I think the longest it took me to switch carriers was around 40 minutes and a good chunk of that was taken up by the manager having to come over and redo a lot of info as the new trainee was having trouble inputting the data. Ever since the feds made the carriers allow you to port numbers? Its really not difficult to just jump ship from one to another and with so many VARs out there competing? Its really not hard to find decent deals.I only pay $35 a month for the wife's with unlimited talk, text, and 2.5GB of data, while I'm on a VAR that only charges for what you use and since I text more than I talk? My average bill is between $17-$22 a month and since my carrier is a "pay what you use" they support using the phone as a Wifi hotspot so if I'm on a service call and the customer's network is down and I really need a file I can just hook my netbook to the phone and grab what I need, easy peasy.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.